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Flash Drives
Behind the basics of computer technology lays boundless amounts of information. This information is transferred around the world by connection to the World Wide Web. How would information be transferred if there is not connection to the internet? Computer engineers have solved this problem with the invention of a device called the flash drive. Drives are what store information inside the computer for use. There are a few different forms of the drives such as a hard drive. Other forms of hard drives include single edge hard drives and solid state drives. All of these pieces of technology are very innovative and important to use computers. Storage and transfer of information has always been important and it is these pieces of hardware that allow us to do such things.
A flash drive is a simple device that acts as a temporary hard drive to store information.
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the flash drive is designed to be a means of transferring data from one source to another mechanically. Without internet connection, one can simply transfer the files of data from the computers main hard drives over into the flash drive, given there is enough space on the flash drive, and then after safely ejecting the flash drive transfer the same files over to another storage unit, like another computer, by the same process. The first flash drives that were sold for public consumer use were distributed by Trek Technology and IBM in 2000. At the time, floppy disks were the most common method of storing data off of a hard drive. The flash drive was able to store eight MB which was five times more than the storage capacity of a floppy disk. This was a revolutionary change for the technological industry. As technology evolved, flash drives became faster at transferring data. Currently, flash drives are in their third generation of development and are continuing to get faster and hold more data every day.