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Flash Drives By. Michael Jones and Nick Randall. What is a Flash Drive. A USB flash drive is a NAND-type flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB interface. They are typically small, lightweight, removable and rewritable.

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  1. Flash DrivesBy Michael Jonesand Nick Randall

  2. What is a Flash Drive • A USB flash drive is a NAND-type flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB interface. They are typically small, lightweight, removable and rewritable. • USB Flash Drives are sold with memory sizes anywhere from 32 Megabytes to 60 gigabytes.

  3. Basic History • The first flash drives were created in 1998 by Dov Moran. Dov’s most significant contribution was that the flash drive was self-reliant and free of the need to install drivers. The first flash drives were produced by M-Systems and were in Europe. • Modern flash drives now have USB 2.0 connectivity. • The sizes of an 8 MB, 16 MB, 32 MB, and 64 MB. and this design was continued up to 256 MB. Asian manufacturers soon started making their own flash drives that were cheaper than the M-Systems series. The fastest drives available now use a dual channel controller.

  4. How Does It Work? • Flash Drives (for the most part) are only active when connected to a computer USB port or USB hub. Flash drives have no battery or internal power source and are only powered by their connection to the computer. • Modern Operating Systems support USB Flash drives without the need to download a driver from disk or the web.

  5. Essential Components There are typically three parts to a flash drive… • A Male type-A USB flash drives provides an interface to the host computer. • NAND flash memory chip stores data. • Crystal oscillator produces the device's main 12 MHz clock signal and controls the flash data output through a phase locked loop.

  6. Inside of a flash drive This is what the inside of a flash drive looks like. We could not take our flash drive apart so we did the next best thing.

  7. Common Uses • Personal Data Transport: Such as music or this slide show. • Arcade Games: When a new machine is brought in or if a machine needs maintenance the high scores are stored on a flash drive. • Flash drive are used by network administrators for loading new software and configurations for troubleshooting and maintenance.

  8. TheGood and The Bad Good: Flash Drives are more convenient then some older forms of portable memory, Namely Floppy Disk. They Are… • More compact • Contain More Memory • Faster • And More reliable • Modern Operating Systems come with the ability to talk to USB drives without having to download an additional drive from the web or CD-Rom. Bad: • They are still breakable. • If something goes wrong with the Drive there’s no way to fix it because there’s no software on it and no anti-virus devices. • Like any form of flash memory they can only have a certain number of transactions before it fails.

  9. Credits Made by • Michael Jones • Nick Randall Information and Photos gathered from • Jim • Wikipedia.org • http://www.gadgetspy.co.uk/wp-content/photos/usb_thumb_drive.JPG • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/Usbkey_internals.jpg/320px-Usbkey_internals.jpg • http://gadgets.fosfor.se/the-top-10-weirdest-usb-drives-ever/ • http://www.irsural.ru/gallery/autocatalog/flash_drive/Pny_FlashDrive.jpg • http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2006/5/lego-memory-stick-1.jpg • Thanks for watching

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