How to choose a flash drive

Flashki or Flash drives have become an excellent replacement of floppy disks and laser disks. They are compact, possess good characteristics, consume less energy and have a high speed of access. The flash drive is powered by a connected device, you can read e-books from it, watch a video and listen to music.

The priority factor when choosing a flash drive is the amount of memory that ranges from 4 GB to 256 GB. The greater the amount of memory, the price of the flash drive is more expensive. Flash drives with a volume of 256 GB are not numerous. They are released only by the Kingston manufacturer.

Pay attention to the rate of data exchange, that is, the speed of reading and writing. The average recording speed of the flash drive is approximately 10 Mbps, and the readout is 15-20 Mbps. These features must be considered if you are going to connect a flash drive directly to play movies, listening to music. Models with inscriptions "Ultrafast", "Hi-Speed" have good speeds.

Currently, the market has a huge variety of flash drives. Some of them are surprised by their colorful design, color and shape. When buying, pay attention, is there extending, leaving parts. With daily operation, such models can quickly break. If the flash drive is used very often, you should select devices with rubberized, plastic or metal housing. The size of the flash drives is also the size of the flash drive: the too voluminous drive may not fit into the hole or interfere with connecting other devices.

Additional features of flash drives: electronic clock, built-in flashlight, data copy protection, installation of operating systems, data recovery. Manufacturers include these functions in some models in addition to the main. The choice of one or another depends on the buyer's requests.

When buying a flash drive, be on the maintenance of unknown names of companies. Often they sell devices of popular manufacturers under their logo. Leading companies specializing in the release of Flash drives: Kingston, Lexar, Trancend, SanDisk.

It is not necessary to work with the files directly from the flash drive - this reduces the service life of the drive. Copy the information on the PC hard drive, and then save it back on the flash drive. With proper operation, even an inexpensive flash drive last long.