Tuesday, May 01, 2007

USB sticks Legacy!!



Universal Serial Bus Sticks is "THE" founding of the century.Its small compact and portable which perhaps makes it the coolest one.It fits into a purse(where samba usually carries) and can be carried unnoticeable.USB sticks(storage devices) are referred to as just USB's due to the fact that these are the most frequently used devices of the universal bus family(remember USB which is a port is not the same as USB sticks).

Coming to the sizes of the Usb sticks ,they vary in sizes depending on the storage capacity of the sticks from 39x12x2 mm(which by far is the smallest in the world ) to the size of a handycam cassette(which can store upto 350 GB).Talking about the uses,I use it in my college to transfer movies that i download from college to my home(quite handy eh!!).One of my forum friends who lives in Canada was asked to visit the FBI office for some verifications there he happened to get hold of a computer and the next thing he did was plugged in his Usb and stole the "Top Secret Face Recognition Software which was developed specially for the FBI's" and uploaded it over the internet(how is that for an effective usage lol!).

Due to the recent craze for this little memory sucker there has been a steady decrease in the demand for DVD's which can be written only once unlike the sticks.The transfer speed of these sticks also very good and goto about 20mbit/s in very good computers ,and this is possible due to the introduction of USB v2.0 .

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