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"Advanced flashdrive"

In the group my task is to find out what is the content of flashdrives and what is inside a flashdrive.

A USB Flash drive is a small device that stores information and files from a computer. Flash drives are very useful because you can carry them anywhere, and if you want to open files from the flash drive, all you need is a computer. Flash drives are connected to a computer using a USB port, which is usually on the side of a computer screen or the box. Flash drives use flash memory to hold files. Flash memory is a type of memory that does not need any moving parts, unlike a CD or Floppy disk.

Flash drives can hold a lot of memory! It can hold anything from 1 Gigabyte all the way up to 64 Gigabytes! One gigabyte itself is a billion bytes which is a lot of memory! (A byte is a form of measurement used for storing digital data.)

Other common names for a flash drives include: memory stick, keydrive, pendrive and jumpdrive or simply USB.

USB flash drives have many advantages over other storage devices that are portable (meaning you can carry them around with you). Many of them have been raplaced because people think the flash drive is much better. They are much smaller than floppy disks, and can hold much more data. They are designed in such a way that inside, they do not have moving parts.

This is the parts of a USB: