USB flash drive

USB flash drive
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Usbkey internals.jpg
Internal components of a
common flash drive
1 USB Connection
2 Device USB mass storage controller
3 test points
4 chip flash memory
5 Crystal Oscillator
6 LED
7 Write-protect switch
8 empty space for the second flash memory chip

USB flash drives are data storage devices type NAND flash memory with USB interface integrated. Flash drives are typically small, lightweight, and can be read and writable with ease. As of November 2006, the capacity is available for USB flash drive there from up to 128 megabytes 64 gigabytes.

USB flash drives have many advantages over other data storage devices, particularly the floppy disk or compact disc. The tool is faster, smaller, with a larger capacity and more reliable (because it has no moving parts) than floppy disks.
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* 1 USB Flash Drive in Windows
* 2 See also
* 3 External links
o 3.1 Applications keydrive
o 3.2 HOWTO sites
o 3.3 GNU / Linux distributions for USB

[edit] USB Flash Drive in Windows

Microsoft Windows operating system to implement a USB flash drive as a USB Mass Storage Device, and use the device drivers usbstor.sys. Because it features Windows auto-mounting, and USB flash drive is a plug and play device, Windows will try to run it as much as possible while the device is plugged into the USB socket. Windows XP and the later even Autoplay feature, which allows the flash drive is accessed as a whole to determine what the contents of the USB flash drive.

Lately, many local computer viruses as well as Brontok / RontokBro, PendekarBlank, and other local viruses using a USB flash drive as a medium for transmission of the virus from one host to another host, replacing the floppy disk. Viruses mostly runs on Windows it will circulate faster when accessing the drive's Windows teserbut use autoplay feature that is owned by Windows. Therefore, there is a good idea to disable the autoplay feature, although this is less so help prevent the spread of the virus.

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