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USB Flash Drives
These little USB flash drives (or Thumb Drives as they’re often referred to) are a brilliant invention and currently the most popular option for personal backups and transferring data.
Plug one of these into your Windows 2000/XP/Vista machine and they almost instantly pop-up under ‘My Computer’ as another hard drive for you to use. Simply copy and paste your files to the new drive and you’re done. With the speed that current USB2.0 devices operate at (480Mb/s) everything is done in a flash.
Current flash drives range in size from 64MB up to 16GB!!! and all operate at USB2.0 speed. They come in a massive range of styles and colours and many are small enough to fit on your keychain.
Pros: Small physical size, good storage size, fast transfer rate, rugged and reliable, universal
Cons: Cheaper no-name devices are said to be less reliable, so again, don’t go cheap, make sure you buy a decent brand.
Also breif = brief!