what are flash drives for?

magoogy

i have been told to buy one of them flash drive hubs or something for portable memory and to enable extra memory for the kids - what are these and how do they work please?

Mr_Skint_2

http://www.usbflashdrive.org/ Loads of info here.

Whitefiver

Basically, it is a small gizmo that plugs into a USB port on your PC (without any additional drivers for WinME and above), and gives you some storage that is removable and transportable.

They are incredibly useful, and a 256Mb one will store the same as about 170 floppies.

Good prices at:-

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=11124239102&action=c2hvd3N1YmNhdGVnb3J5X3BhZ2U=&subcat_uid=405

but you must make your own mind up about ebuyer, as reports vary. I have NEVER had any problems having said that. I have the 512Mb Kingston Data Traveller 2 from ebuyyer, and it is excellent - no longer on free shipping though!

Apart from storing your documents, and so on, you can store some programs that you could then run on any PC you could connect to:-

http://nedwolf.com/Freeware-Portable.htm

and some of these are really useful.

Hope that helps,

Regards,

White.