NuGadgets offers a full line of original Flash Drives with full manufacturer's warranty. The flash drive was first invented in 1998 at IBM as a floppy drive replacement for the ThinkPad line of products.
USB flash drive is a flash memory integrated with a USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 interface used as a small, lightweight, portable removable data storage device. Depending on the drive type and OS version, and in some cases what patches are installed, the drives generally work with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP and higher (Windows 98 requires a driver to be installed; often, inconveniently, a specific driver for each type of flash drive). Macintosh, Linux, and other Unix-like platforms also fully support USB connectivity.
USB flash drives are also known as pen drives, thumb drives, flash drives, USB keys, and a wide variety of other names*. They are also sometimes erroneously called memory sticks, which is a Sony trademark describing their proprietary memory card system.
Flash drives are active only when powered by a USB computer connection, and require no other external power source or battery power source; key drives are run off the limited supply afforded by the USB connection (5 volts and 100 or 500 mA). To access the data stored in a flash drive, the flash drive must be connected to a computer, either by direct connection to the computer's USB port or via a USB hub. Some need most of the power a standard USB port can supply and therefore cannot be used with a bus powered hub.
*Known names of USB flash drive:
data stick, data key, dongle, doofer, flash disk, flash drive, flash memory drive, gigachip, geek stick, jump drive, key, keychain drive, keydrive, keyfob, magic key, magic stick, memory key, memory stick, micro hard drive, mobile drive, nerd necklace, nerd stick, pen drive, piripicho, pocket drive, stick, thumb drive, thumb key, vault drive
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