I have a few who still ask me what a flash drive is, and I don't see that as some admission of computer ignorance. Not at all.
A flash drive is a device that plugs into your computer quite easily and acts like a very small hard drive. Well, NOT so small, actually. You can get them now as large as several gigabytes. Oh, yeah...Gigabyte...that's a measure of size on a storage device.
What's a flash drive useful for? Well, you COULD use it as sort of a backup device to keep a copy of important data....documents, pictures, music...and the like.
They're quite handy, really, and they fit in your pocket or on a key chain...we're talking small and portable. You can buy a 2 gigabyte Flash Drive for about the cost of what a box or two of floppy disks used to cost...you remember those? And you can put about 2,000 floppy disks worth of information on a two gigabyte drive. Are you keeping up?
So what are they, again? : A really small, really inexpensive, really portable storage device that is worth looking into.
Call or write me and ask questions about flash drives, if you like. I'll get back to you in a flash!
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