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Jump drive may refer to: USB flash drive, a data storage device; Hyperspace drive, a fictional space travel method This page was last edited on 31 ...
Products manufactured by Lexar include SD cards, CompactFlash cards, USB flash drives, card readers and solid-state drives. [1] Once a division of Cirrus Logic, Lexar leveraged its parent company's experience in building ATA controllers in developing its own flash controllers. Lexar was spun off from Cirrus Logic in 1996. [2]
For example, a USB flash drive might be mounted in an outdoor brick wall and fixed in place with fast concrete. [1] Members of the public are implicitly invited to find files, or leave files, on a dead drop by directly plugging their laptop into the wall-mounted USB stick in order to transfer data.
NAND flash memory forms the core of the removable USB storage devices known as USB flash drives, as well as most memory card formats and solid-state drives available today. The hierarchical structure of NAND flash starts at a cell level which establishes strings, then pages, blocks, planes and ultimately a die.
Such storage devices may refer to removable media (e.g. punched paper, magnetic tape, floppy disk and optical disc), compact flash drives (USB flash drive and memory card), portable storage devices (external solid-state drive and enclosured hard disk drive), or network-attached storage.
The turn of the millennium saw the widespread introduction of solid-state removable media, with the SD card being introduced in 1999, followed by the USB flash drive in 2000. [21] The capacity of these removable flash drives improved over time, with 2013 seeing Kingston unveiling a 1 terabyte USB flash drive. [22]
USB flash drives typically implement the USB mass storage device class. The USB mass storage device class (also known as USB MSC or UMS ) is a set of computing communications protocols , specifically a USB Device Class , defined by the USB Implementers Forum that makes a USB device accessible to a host computing device and enables file ...
USB On-The-Go (USB OTG or just OTG) is a specification first used in late 2001 that allows USB devices, such as tablets or smartphones, to also act as a host, allowing other USB devices, such as USB flash drives, digital cameras, mouse or keyboards, to be attached to them. Use of USB OTG allows devices to switch back and forth between the roles ...