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If USB flash drives and CD-Rs cost about the same per megabyte of storage which do you think is more advantageous?
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What is a USB cruzer?
A USB Cruzer is SanDisk brand of a USB Flash (Memory) Drive. Such a device stores just about any computer file type. SanDisk Corp. makes all kinds of USB flash drives, from 16 MB (mega byte) to 32 GB. (MB or GB is a unit of storage capacity, as in 0.016 GB = 16 MB or 32 GB = 32,000 MB.)
What do flash drives and hard drives have in common?
They both... used as storage
What is the function of a pen drive?
The USB flash drive stores digital material of any kind, be it videos, powerpoints, documents... The storage of the USB flash drive in presented in megabytes, gigabytes or terabytes.(MB, GB, or TB, respectively.) The more bytes, the more storage. There are no public USB flash drives yet that can hold over 1,023 TB.(1 TB = 1024 GB, 1 GB = 1024 MB, 1 MB = 1024 KB, 1 KB = 1024 B. One byte can hold any amount of bits, that depends on the program, the file or the OS.
On a camera what does MB mean?
mb means megabyte which is storage capacity in computers, flash cards, etc
Are the usage of flash drives still popular?
The flash drive replaced floppy disks and cd-roms as storage devices. Flash drives are still in popular usage for file storage. Some even use flash drives as back up storage for their whole computer files in the event of a crash.
What is a pen drive?
A pen drive is another name for a USB flash drive. Other names are Flash drive, USB flash drive, Thumb drive, etc. They are devices that allow storage of computer files that you can remove and take from computer to computer. The price of the drive is determined by the size of its memory measured in megabytes or gigabytes. While 128 megabyte drives used to be considered large, current pen drives sizes can reach 1, 2, 4, or more gigabytes. The drives are inserted in the computers USB ports and are automatically recognized on PC operating systems beyond Windows 98 (which needs a separate installation of drivers). Pen drives can also have full blown applications on them which are written in what is called U3 compatible software.
Are fast becoming the preferred means of portable storage?
The answer is the same as the one on my test, A. flash drives, or B flash drives or..............you get it.
Why are floppy disks much less popular as a portable storage system and what replaced them?
They have been significantly succeded by smaller, more rigid forms of data storage media with greater protection and storage capacity. For more information about the history of floppy disks and storage devices, see Related Links below this box.
What are examples of secondary storage devices?
Flash drives, back up storage units
How much is two gigabytes?
2GB is two gigabytes or 2,000,000,000 bytes of data. A byte is commonly 8 bits (0 or 1) of data. This is a common data storage capacity on "thumb" or "flash" drives available today. This compares with 300-500 GB that is commonly available on PC hard drives today. Interestingly, this compares with the 0.7GB that is the maximum data staorage capacity of a CDROM.
How much MB is a USB?
It depends. Usually USB flash drives are measured in Gigabytes, and it should have told you when you bought it (you pay for what you get). Usually, a flash drive is no less than 1 Gigabyte, and no more than 4 Gigabytes.
Where can you buy san storage?
San's or Storage Area Networks are the devices used when making optical drives, or storage drives, such as usb flash drives. You can purchase these from companies like New Egg.
