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used as storage
Secondary hard drives, usb flash drives, removable hard drives, cd, dvd, zip disks, floppy disks, mini discs, ect.
usb port jump drives and cd's
Yes. Flash drives work just as well in reading memory as a CD or your hard drive. Plus, flash drives have a tendency to read faster than hard drives, so it may load faster.
Flash Drives have a disadvantage to their hard drive counterparts in that a flash drive's writing time is slower than a hard drive. As such, you will notice a slower upload onto your flash device. Keep in mind, though, that flash drives tend to read data quicker than hard drives.
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There are tons of kinds of drives. Floppy Disk Drives, CD-ROM drives, PATA Hard drives, zip drives, flash drives, DVD drives, SATA hard drives.... The list could go on and on and on...
Three common external storage devices are external hard drives, USB flash drives, and solid-state drives (SSDs). External hard drives provide large storage capacities and are often used for backups and data transfer. USB flash drives are portable and convenient for transferring smaller amounts of data. SSDs, while typically more expensive, offer faster read and write speeds compared to traditional hard drives, making them ideal for quick data access.
Solid state Flash drives USB Hard disks drives
Solid state drives are drives that run off of flash memory rather than a hard disk.
Solid State Drives, they are hard drives with no moving parts, they could also be compared to there cousins, RAM.
The most common problem with large hard drives is computer crashes.
All USB flash drives (also known as thumb drives, pen drives, etc) are used as you would use the internal hard-drive inside your computer. Such flash drives come in many styles and capacities, and files can be written to, deleted from, and formatted as you would to hard-drives. It is advised that flash drives are unmounted before being removed to ensure all writing is complete and to avoid possible corrupting of the flash drive.