Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Flash Drives

By :Derek R Andrews

Flash Storage Drives are wonderful little devices. Gone are the days of storing three or four word documents on your floppy disk. Now you can store tens of thousands of documents and files on a single tiny flash storage drive! They are very resilient, so you no longer have to worry about dropping it, or storing it near a magnet. Your data is much safer on a flash storage drive then it ever was on a floppy disk! If you often use more than one computer (such as one at work or school, and one at home), you know how important it is to be able to move files between your computers. Flash storage drives make it simple. All you have to do is plug it in the USB slot, copy your files over, and you're done. There's really nothing to it. Despite their ease of use and convenience, flash storage drives are also very inexpensive. For around 10 dollars, sometimes less, you can now get a basic drive that will suit most of your needs.

There are also a few other neat uses for Flash Storage Drives you may not know about. For instance, you can store music on them, so you can listen to your favorite songs anywhere you can plug it into a PC. There is also new audio equipment that has a built-in USB port so you can just plug a USB flash drive directly into the unit and listen to your music without a PC!

You can also use your flash storage drives to encrypt sensitive data. There are freely available programs such as TrueCrypt that will allow you to encode your data with a password so that if your flash drive gets lost or stolen, the files will be unreadable by anyone without the password.

Flash Storage Drives also make a great toolkit for PC repair. Just load your favorite antivirus, antispyware, and diagnostic tools on the drive and you're ready to go! There are many more uses for flash storage drives, and with a little creativity you'll be amazed at how versatile and handy they can be!

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