what can I do with small USB thumb drive

December 6, 2007 | By hanneng In Computer Technology | Comments(0)

The capacities of USB mass storage devices such as flash drive or thumb drive are getting larger and will continuous to increase in future. A few manufacturers have made really large capacities flash drive, for example Corsair and Edge Tech Corp has released 32GB version of flash drive respectively. Because of flexibility and relative low cost, the USB flash drive is very popular in the market.

Almost every student and office worker owned at least one unit of thumb drive. The common capacity in the market nowadays is 2GB. You can get one 2GB around $25, 4GB at around $45 and 8GB at around $110.

Flash drives smaller than 1GB has been discontinued and 1GB capacity flash drive is being slowly phased out currently.

I have a few very small capacities flash drive, like this one IBM 128MB USB flash drive. I got it from a lucky draw 2 years ago.

So, what can I do with those small USB flash drives?

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