Flash Drives and Optical Storage

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Flash Drives and Optical Storage
Flash drives and Optical Storage are quick and easy ways to transfer data, and with all the technology that has been introduced over the years, these have many uses. There compact, portable, and very useful in many situations. To help understand these two topics more in depth, I will be explaining what they are, how they are used, and many other details.
First, I will be explaining flash drives. Flash drives are a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface (Wikipedia). It is also a type of memory that can be erased electronically and rewritten. Flash memory chips are a type of solid state media, which means they consist entirely of electronic components and contain no moving parts. Types of flash memory storage include solid state drives, memory cards, USB flash drives, and ExpressCard modules (Shelly and Vermaat COM 12). Flash drives are incredibly light and small (1 oz.) which makes it easy to store and carry. Even though flash drives are small, they can store a lot of data. Flash drives storage ranges from anywhere from one gigabyte to sixty-four gigabytes (Casey). USB flash drives are so popular today because they are faster, easier to use, and more convenient than almost any other method. Burning CDs takes time, and is a permanent process. If you’re taking a project from your office to your home, and you’re going to be finished with it at the end of the week, burning a CD just for that can be wasteful. If you make changes to the project, you have to burn a whole new CD in order to take it back to work. If you’re storing important information about your job, or valuable copyrighted files if you are a creative person, many USB flash dri...

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...ore about optical storage and flash drives can be helpful later on in the future. Who knows, maybe this will be the only way of transferring and storing data considering how much it grew so quickly.

Works Cited
An Overview of USB Flash Drives and Their Future. 1 March 2012. Print. 20 November 2013. .
Casey, Mark. Frequently Asked Questions About USB Flash Drives. 2013. Web. 20 November 2013. .
Keen, Dan. What are Optical Storage Devices. n.d. Web. 20 November 2013.
Shelly, Gary B and Misty E Vermaat. Microsoft Office 2010 Introductory. Boston, 2011. Print.
Wikipedia. Optical Storage. 17 November 2013. Web. 20 November 2013. .
—. USB flash drive. 20 November 2013. Web. 20 November 2013.

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