Technology Explained

What is a USB Fash Drive?

USB flash drives are compact and easy-to-use devices that are similar in use to your computer hard drive. A USB flash drive is a NAND-type flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB 1.1 or 2.0 interface. It is small, lightweight, removable and rewritable.

USB flash drives are virtually universally compatible with all PC's and laptops running Windows, as well as many MAC OS systems that have a USB port. Most flash drives do not require drivers unless you are running Windows 98.


Why do I need a USB Fash Drive?

There are many uses for a USB flash drive, including for personal data storage and for portable desktop computing. The small size of USB flash drives makes them ideal for personal, portable and powerful computing. Flash drives make it possible to take your files with you from with extreme ease and convenience, a USB flash drive is a personal, portable and powerful device.

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What is a MP3 Player?

MP3 is short for MPEG-1, Layer 3, this is a codec that, for a number of reasons, became the most popular format for digital music as its popularity hit critical mass. Now, "MP3" is commonly used as shorthand for any type of digital music file. The MP3 Player is the device for playing audio files encoded using MPEG1 layer 3 (mp3). Most MP3 players can also store other data formats and can be used to store and transfer data files.

What is a MP4 Player?
Just like MP3s work by compressing music and audio files without affecting the audio quality, MP4 files are compressed video files. MP4 is also known as MPEG-4 AVC, or advanced video coding. This new technology is going to make video files decrease in size so that they are easier to work with and support. What used to be massive video files of motion and audio are now compressed versions of the same material, called MP4s.