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Q: Why are they called thumb drives?
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What storage media is sometimes called a thumb drive?

USB Flash Drives are called thumb drives


What file format is best for thumb drives?

Thumb drives are just like hard drives, any format will work on it.


Is a thumb drive a storage device?

Thumb drives, otherwise known as "USB Flash Drives" or "Jump Drives" are storage devices. You can store your data files plus you could store and run programs from the thumb drive.


USB flash drives also called jump drives or thumb drives have become common devices in most organizations because they are useful devices that pose NO risk as a source of data leakage?

False


What are examples of electronic devices?

thumb drives


What thumb drives criminals use to steal information?

Depends on what type of thumb drive they get.


What are some different brands of cheap thumb drives?

Among the many brands of thumb drives. Brands such as ADATA, Kingston, SanDisk, Team, Wintec, Verbatim, Mushkin, Silicon Power, PNY, Pretec, and Transcend offer numerous different cheap thumb drives.


What is the maximum storage on a thumb drive?

"Thumb Drives come in a variety of sizes. The most common sizes hold thousands of songs and are 4-12 GB. The largest available on the market at this time is 256GB. As technology has grown, so have the sizes of thumb drives a.k.a. flash drives."


What type of threat are thumb drives usb pen drives to the army IT systems and network?

Technology Threat


WHEN DID THUMB DRIVES COME OUT?

2000 by Trek Technologies in Singapore.


What does a storage device includes?

Examples of storage devices are: internal/external hard drives, floppy drives, CD's, DVD's, thumb drives, etc.


What is an electronic device that stores digitized information?

Flash-drives, or "thumb-drives"can hold digitized information, along with External hard drives and other things.