Portable Media

USB Flash Drives

Remember when…

• a keyboard was a piano

• a memory was something that you lost with age

• and a virus was the flu ?

Things have changed…

Flash Drives

Flash Drives are easy to useeasy to use, , portableportable, , high capacityhigh capacity,

storage devices with a USB interface.

Flash drives plug into the USB port in your computer.

The term, USB Flash Drive is a generic term.

They are sold by many different companies and are usually compatible with all laptops and

notebook PCs that run Windows 98 and higher.

Flash drives also work with many Mac OS systems that have a USB port.

Flash drives are also known as…

• Jump drive• Jet drive• Data traveler• Attaché• Pen drive• Memory stick and…

Thumb drive

(Imagine that sticking out of your computer!)

They can look like just about anything.

(Yes, that’s a flash drive in that computer!)

So be careful because they could end up in the toy box.

Flash Drives have some advantages over more

traditional devices such as CDs, DVDs, and Floppy Discs.

They are…

• Small•Convenien

t• Durable

•Rewritable• Fast

They can be used by teachers and students to store and share work done at school and at

home.

The larger capacity drives can store much more than a CD or DVD.

• Storage capacity ranges from 32 MB to 64GB. Wow!

• You can store any type of data from song files to software to video.

• You can even store a Power Point Presentation!

You can purchase them almost anywhere.

And they can also make a nice fashion statement!

Do you know what this is?

To be continued…

Portable Media

Presentation byCeleste Hopkins

University of Cincinnati