The USB drive has been around for some time now and is a great way to store computer files. USB Drives have almost replaced floppy disks and and CDR's since their what most people are using in todays world. IBM began selling the first flash drives back in the year 2000 with a storage capacity of 8 MB which was more than five times the storage of a floppy disk which was 1.44 MB. Some advantages of having a flash drive would be its easy to transport from place to place, they work on just about every computer as of 2009, and you don't have to install device drivers to be able to use them. A major disadvantage would be that they have limited write and erase cycles before they stop working. Also if you don't have a computer that can support flash drives then you won't be able to use them.
USB Scam
There has recently been reports of people being scammed on ebay by hackers in China that sell USB Drives. They sell people flash drives that have less memory then they were advertised and some people even take apart the inside of a flash drive and put the end of a USB cord inside to make it look like a normal flash drive.
Wikipedia. (2009). USB Flash Drive. Retrieved April 19, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive
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