How do you determine a flash drive size?

Answer 1

In order to decide which size flash drive you need, first you must know what it is you are storing on it. The smaller the file type the smaller the flash drive you will need. Document sizes are as follows from smallest to largest- 1. Documents only(word, excel, etc) 2.Pictures 3. Music 4. Movies. For movies, you at least want to use 32GB, considering Movies are about 4GB each. Which will give you roughly about 8 movies stored. Anything else, you can go smaller in GB size.

Answer 2

One thing to be aware of is some flash drives of larger sizes are fraudulent and are really much smaller than marked or the OS will display. I encountered this with some USB flash drives that were marked 128GB but my testing showed to really be only 8GB.

To verify the drive actually has the capacity marked attempt to copy files onto it until it is about 2/3 full (this test may take a few DAYs on some large drives). If it is real the copy will succeed and the files can still be read. If it is a fraudulent drive, long before you get that much data on the drive strange errors will start happening and files will vanish from the directory.

Fortunately if you buy several flash drives of the same type and capacity from one supplier at the same time you should only have to do the test once, not on every drive. Also if you bought drives of a well known reputable brand from a known supplier that you buy regularly from it is unlikely you will get any fraudulent drives so you may never need to do this test.

Answer 3

The size is usually printed on the side of the drive. If not, you can load it into a computer. Then in Windows 8, click on the start corner, click on computer, click on the icon for that drive, click on organize and then on properties. If you running something besides windows 8, find the screen that lists your drives, click on the one you want and choose properties.