The port is a USB (Universal Serial Bus).
USB Port
They both mean the same. Actually a flash drive also called as a pen drive is an USB device ( Universal serial bus). This is called so because, the flash drives are attached with the computer at the USB port.
No. The term serial port refers to the older 9 or 25 pin, male connectors on the back of a PC. They were used for connecting to modems, certain printers, and mice.A USB port, while it is technically a type of serial port, it is incompatible with the old type of serial port. A USB port gets information about the device from the device, while the old type serial port simply transmitted data. USB to serial adapters do exist, but compatibility can be a challenge.
External. An internal hard drive would be any hard drive built into a computer, that cannot be easily removed and transported to another computer. External hard drives can be easily moved and in the case of flash drives, can be used for temporary data storage and transfer.
Many devices have traditionally been connected to a parallel port. The most common usage was for printers. Image scanners, external hard drives, and Ethernet adapters have also been created for the parallel port.
USB Port
USB Port
USB Port
A USB port.
usb port jump drives and cd's
The USB port is used on computers to connect peripheral devices to it. The most common are MP3 players, digital cameras, mice, keyboards, external drives, flash drives, and many other devices, those are just to name a few.
A flash drive has to be inserted in the USB port on the computer. Latest operating systems detect the flash drive and install the necessary drivers on their own. Once the device is detected, it can be used for storing the data. The device needs to be ejected from the computer. The system prompts you when it is safe to remove the flash drive. It can be physically ejected then. A flash drive consists of a PCB, a printed circuit board. It is covered in a plastic or rubber casing, making it sturdy. A USB connector that protrudes is covered with a removable cap. Most flash drives use type-A USB connection making it compatible with standard type-A receptacles. Hence they can be directly connected to a port on a computer. Flash drives implement the USB mass storage device class, thus do not require any additional device drivers. When a flash drive is plugged in to a computer, what is presented to it is a block-structured logical unit. This leads to an abstraction from the complex implementation details of the flash memory devices.
Portable drives (flash drive/jump drive) can also serve as storage devices.
The Universal Serial Bus or USB port Used for printers, scanners, headsets, wifi dongles, USB flash drives.......etc
Flash drives are used as data storage devices, where data can be written, read and erased. There are a number of brands for flash drives, yet all of them have the same basic functionalities.
They both... used as storage
A flash drive is essentially a pocket sized hard drive. It is about the size of your thumb and fits into a USB port. Flash drives are typically used to transfer data from one computer to another (i.e. from work to home).