What other purposes can a flash drive serve beyond file transfers?

Pen drives, also known as USB drives, have been with us for more than a dozen years. Floppy disks have been replaced, CDs and DVDs have also been replaced, and they accompany us in our everyday lives – we store photos, films, studies, and multimedia presentations on them.

But storing photos or text files is not the only option from the aspect of using a USB memory stick.

This little device can even save our computer! What else can we do with a flash drive? You can find out in our article!

A few words about USB memory

A pendrive name is a combination of two English words – pen, i.e. pen, and drive, i.e. driver.

The name is officially maintained by the Taiwanese company Add On Technology, but it has also entered everyday language for this type of device.

A USB flash drive is a portable device that contains flash memory. It is used to transfer data between computers and other devices that support the USB port.

Roughly a dozen years ago, flash drives competed with floppy disks – today we can say that they have been surpassed many times over, and the capacity of current flash drives can be measured not only in gigabytes, but also in terabytes.

What else can a flash drive be used for?

As mentioned earlier, a flash drive is not only used to transfer and store photos, videos, music or text files.

What else can this little bugger do for us? Here’s a list of unusual uses for a flash drive.

• Computer data recovery. The flash drive can help us when we delete files from the computer. The data can be restored thanks to a portable application, i.e. a special program that can be run on a computer from a pen drive.
• Remove viruses or spyware. A portable application on a USB stick can be used to remove malware from the computer.
• Portable OS – Live USB. We can “install” an operating system on the flash drive that can also be run on a computer without having to install it on a hard drive. It’s as if our entire computer is on a small flash drive and we can run it on any computer. The most frequently installed systems are GNU/Linux and Windows To Go. This feature is called Live USB.
• Increase computer memory. Thanks to the pen drive, we can increase the performance of the system. Thanks to the ReadyBoost function, the USB flash drive can be used as a cache. This means that the data and files are transferred to the flash drive, which makes the work of the computer easier.

1. Music player. More and more models have a headphone jack and a small display. A flash drive can also replace a CD in your car radio or stereo system.

Additional features

Manufacturers are increasingly diversifying their devices, adding new functions to them.

We can already find flash drives and radios with a voice recording function, not to mention the sophisticated forms of USB memory devices.

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