Few of contemporary creations have revolutionized working life so much as the USB flash drive. OK which may seem a little much for many people but the fact is still the same USB flash drives have reached the lives of millions of other professionals, educators, students, IT and office workers more simple.

Small

Before the creation of USB flash drives all external storage devices for computers were bulky or awkward or sometimes an annoying combination of being both awkward and bulky. USB flash drives are also known as Thumb Drives because they are about the size of your thumb and it is simple to fit several gigabytes of information on your jeans or shirt pocket thus eliminating the awkward and bulky variable straight away.

Portable

USB flash drives are about the data backup device. They do not need an external power supply of any sort, nor do you want any wires or tools to put them up and last but not least they do not require any extra software to be installed for them to work on any modern computerso that you can quite literally pick them up and use them anywhere you want.

Reliable

Once the data is stored on a USB flash drive you can be certain that it is going to stay there and be there when you need it. This is completely unlike the world of rewriteable discs or disks where they can stop working for no apparent reason. Drives were constructed to offer reliable and consistent performance. The majority of these drives come with protection to keep you from overwriting your data that is own.

Tough

These were easily lost tight and damaged. The jolt was and is sufficient to kill an external hard disk stone dead although external hard drives provided another way of transporting data between systems. USB flash drives are based on what is called Solid State Memory – that means that it is just like standard computer memory since it has no moving parts and is therefore almost impossible to harm except for jumping up and down on it or hitting it with a hammer for example.

Mass Storage

The first USB thumb Drives offered between 16MB and 64MB of storage space. Every month or two, the popularity of these infinitikloud drives has pushed the appetite for more and more storage space. The portability of the USB flash drive together with reliability and the more than ample storage given by such a small device make them the wise choice for anybody who needs to transfer files between PCs or just keep another copy of the most precious data on a safe and reliable storage device.