Unleash the Powers of Flash Thumb Drives
Flash Thumb Drives make great external storage devices. They're the size of your thumbnail, hence the "thumb drives" name.
They work in the same manner as any other storage devices: Just plug them in to a USB connector on your computer and you will see them appear in your Windows Explorer or Macintosh Finder as another drive on your system.
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Storage Capacities of Flash Thumb Drives
Although small in size, they pack a lot of storage powers. The storage capacities of most thumb drives nowadays range from 64MB to 16GB (1000MB =1GB).
How much storage space do you need? Here's a rough estimate: an MP3 music file occupies around 4-8MB. A printable photo image file is around 2-10MB, depending on the print size. A Music Video occupies about 40-100MB, depending on the file compression method used.
Other Uses of Flash Thumb Drives
In addition to serving as storage devices, flash thumb drives provide other good uses as well.
Flash thumb drives can in fact be used to protect your data (with encryption algorithms), load an alternate operating system, recover virus infected files, run applications directly from the thumb drives (when integrated with U3 software), and auto-run dynamic animations or presentations.
One of the distinctive benefits of using USB thumb drives is their interoperability, meaning that they have been designed to run across different operating systems (including Windows, Mac and Linux).
Custom Flash Thumb Drives As Promotional tools
The sudden proliferation of thumb drive s in recent years can be explained by its popularity as promotional tools as businesses try to find cost effective and innovative ways to advertise their products or services.
Although traditional data media, such as floppy disks, Zip drives or even cd-roms, have some of the usability and portability features of thumb drives, they lack customization features that flash thumb drives offer.
Custom thumb drives are now widely used by majority of businesses and marketers to promote their brands, products or company services. Custom flash thumb flash drives are generally sold in bulk, at low cost and printed or engraved with a logo or slogan chosen by the company.
Be Wary of Low Quality Flash Products!
If you are looking for quality thumb flash drives for your business promotions, make sure you use high quality flash thumb drives! A low quality or non-functional product give bad impression and hurt your brand image.
Buy from reputable suppliers who have their own factories and have high quality standards. Reputable suppliers like Flash-Drives.com use grade A memory components from proven suppliers such as Intel, Samsung, Hynix, and Micron. Furthermore, they are ISO-9001:2008 certified, meaning that there quality standards are high.
Additionally, established suppliers such as Flash-Drive.com are able to offer you a wide range colors and designs and provide value added services such as custom printing and engraving, data preloading, auto run programming, etc.
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