| If you are in the market for a way to backup and | | | | the capacity right away. |
| transport files, or your entire computer, you should be | | | | We really like the larger sized flash drives. Currently |
| thinking about external storage. For years, the only | | | | we have a 32gb drive and a 128gb drive. The 128gb |
| answers were zip discs, external hard drives, and | | | | size is much more useful for day to day applications. |
| blank CD's. Now, as flash memory gets better, without | | | | You don't need to worry about deleting files from the |
| a doubt you should be considering getting an external | | | | drive. Instead we can move documents, movies, music, |
| flash memory drive. The question now you should | | | | and anything between devices. It's crazy to think that |
| have is what size flash drive you need to buy. | | | | just a few years ago, a 1gb flash drive seemed large. |
| Flash is an incredible type of storage. It has no moving | | | | There are some new advances in the field of flash |
| parts; instead it stores data on a chip. You use this | | | | storage. We recommend you take a look at new SSD |
| memory in you camera's memory card and in USB | | | | technology. SSD stands for solid-state drive. These |
| flash drives. Because there are no moving parts, flash | | | | are flash drives that act as full hard drives for your |
| data is very stable and drives can last much longer | | | | computer. Unlike the traditional hard disc drive, the SSD |
| than other types of storage. Flash drives are also | | | | has no moving parts, it uses flash technology. These |
| much smaller, and lighter than their counterparts. | | | | drives are silent, incredibly fast, and use less power |
| External hard drives take more power and are | | | | than their HDD counterparts. The only drawback to |
| sometimes hard to lug around. | | | | SSD drives is that they are still quite expensive. There |
| The size of flash drive really depends on what you | | | | are some new external SSD hard drives that are |
| plan on doing with your data. If you're just taking a few | | | | coming onto the market that are at quite a reasonable |
| files back and forth from the office you can buy a | | | | price point. We recommend that any external device |
| small drive. If you are backing up your computer or a | | | | you buy with a large capacity, you consider making |
| lot of media you need to buy a larger size flash drive. | | | | sure it is USB 3.0 compatible. This will make it work at |
| The nice thing is that as the technology gets cheaper, | | | | full speed with all the next generation ports that will be |
| you can buy a larger size drive even if you don't need | | | | on your computers in the years to come. |