| With the advent of portable storage life has changed | | | | (Universal Serial Bus) port. |
| for the better for all computer users. At one point all | | | | Flash drives have many advantages, the main ones |
| we had was a measly 1.44 megabytes with the now | | | | are: |
| almost obscure floppy disk. As time has passed and | | | | |
| technology has improved we have now progressed to | | | | 1. They are small in size and therefore very portable |
| the wonderful world of flash memory. As a lover of | | | | so you can take your work with you wherever you go |
| computers and in fact all gadgets it has been a very | | | | 2. You can back-up your files, this means if your PC or |
| welcome addition to my life. | | | | laptop crashes and you lose your files you still have a |
| If you have a PC or laptop you will most likely want to | | | | back-up copy |
| store and transfer a variety of file types. This can | | | | 3. They provide an alternative storage method if your |
| range from Microsoft Office files, Audio Files, | | | | computers hard drive is too full |
| Photographs, Videos, and Software amongst others. | | | | There are many types of Flash drives to choose from |
| Of course, you have the permanent fixed storage that | | | | but the most important consideration when investing in |
| comes with your PC or laptop, namely the hard drive. | | | | one is the storage capacity. You should always try to |
| However, over time this will most likely become full | | | | consider the long-term. |
| especially if you store large media files. | | | | Another consideration could be an external hard drive. |
| By large media files I mean video, audio and | | | | This is still portable but generally you can't fit in into |
| photographs. These can be very large in size, which | | | | your pocket like a flash drive. The main advantage it |
| means they will soon reduce your hard drives storage | | | | has over a flash drive is a much larger storage |
| capacity. The solution to this is to invest in some type | | | | capacity. |
| of portable storage device. | | | | So the main question you should be asking yourself is |
| A Flash drive or pen drive is the most commonly used | | | | do you need to store large media files? Remember |
| storage device for computer files. These are very | | | | large media files equals large storage capacity. |
| easy to operate and connect to you PC via the USB | | | | |