Uses Of A Flash Drive

By Author: Steve Mc Karmik
Total Articles: 45
Comment this article

Flash drives are one of the most useful innovations of the last few decades, giving us small portable and highly durable data storage devices that are small enough to fit on a key-ring. This means that we need never be without access to our most important files or current work so long as we have access to a computer, and unlike CDs or floppy disks they won't break and will hold almost everything we need with up to over a terabyte of storage space. No matter who you are a flash drive will have uses that you can benefit from. Below are some ideas for how different demographics might make use of a flash drive.

For Students - Students are probably the group who stand to gain the most from the flash drive. Constantly moving from home to home and not necessarily wanting to lug a giant computer around means that they certainly require a storage device of some form. Additionally this will allow them to take their work into the library to work away from their room, or to download information from the University or library server that can be useful for their essays. Students are forever working on large essays or dissertations ...
... and use lost data as an excuse for handing in work late. With a flash drive this needn't be a problem as you constantly have something you can back your files up (but lose a valid excuse at the same time). Flash drives should almost be compulsory for students.
Flash drives can also help with the university life style too and are a great way to store music files and photographs; to take music to a party or just because we all know at Uni that a lot of pictures are taken that should never make their way onto Facebook but that we all nevertheless want to see.

For Business Men and Women - Business men and women are constantly working with lots of highly sensitive and complicated information that often needs to be accessed from various points. Using a USB stick you can back up your data and carry it around in a format that you can keep close to you and even encrypt for extra security. Don't be the guy who loses the sensitive data on the train or forgets to make a backup of his day's work.

For Home Workers - Working from home can be both a blessing and a curse, and though being your own boss is fun for a while the lack of scenery and interaction with other people can soon become a drag. One obvious solution is to take your work to a cyber café or round a friends house so you can work somewhere with a bit more atmosphere. Obviously carrying a flash drive facilitates this and enables you to enjoy one of the main advantages of working from home - freedom.

For Artists - If you make music, take photographs, draw pictures or even write articles, keeping your information on a flash drive gives you a portfolio that you can show off to friends or potential employers at a moment's notice.

Wearable computers are still a thing of science fiction but flash drive size has made it easy to wear the memory stick and other USB flash drives around your neck or on the wrist.