USB flash drive is a flash memory data storage device. It is used to store data files from your computer via its USB (Universal Serial Bus) port. USB flash drives are created with the same purpose of CD-ROMs and floppy disk but because of the enormous advantage of the flash drive, CD-ROMs and floppy disks are abandoned in favor to the USB flash drives approximately in the year 2005.
Let me tell you some related events that I experience with regards with this USB flash drives. When I was still a staff in the school publication, my co-staff always correct me that this memory storage device that I mention above is not a "USB" but a "Flash Drive" it's because I used to refer it as "USB" alone. It puzzled me. So, I'm trying to figure it out how come it should not be called a "USB". I confronted the internet and brings me to this certain write-up about "USB". It just then that I learn that "USB" stands for "Universal Serial Bus" a certain port at the back of the system unit, in laptops, VCD/DVD players and to some other devices."USB" is just a port and not a device. So, if we're referring to this data storage device, we should called it "FLASH DRIVE".
