USB sticks flash drive is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB sticks interface.
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15 Facts About USB sticks
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However, despite these lawsuits, the question of who was the first to invent the USB sticks flash drive has not been definitively settled and multiple claims persist.
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Development of high-speed serial data interfaces such as USB sticks made semiconductor memory systems with serially accessed storage viable, and the simultaneous development of small, high-speed, low-power microprocessor systems allowed this to be incorporated into extremely compact systems.
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However, because a flash drive appears as a USB sticks-connected hard drive to the host system, the drive can be reformatted to any file system supported by the host operating system.
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Usually, new firmware image is downloaded and placed onto a FAT16- or FAT32-formatted USB sticks flash drive connected to a system which is to be updated, and path to the new firmware image is selected within the update component of system's firmware.
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Premature failure of a "live USB sticks" could be circumvented by using a flash drive with a write-lock switch as a WORM device, identical to a live CD.
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However, for installation of Windows 7 and later versions, using USB sticks flash drive with hard disk drive emulation as detected in PC's firmware is recommended in order to boot from it.
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Furthermore, for installation of Windows XP, using USB sticks flash drive with storage limit of at most 2 GB is recommended in order to boot from it.
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In October 2010, Apple Inc released their newest iteration of the MacBook Air, which had the system's restore files contained on a USB sticks hard drive rather than the traditional install CDs, due to the Air not coming with an optical drive.
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Floppy disk hardware emulators exist which effectively utilize the internal connections and physical attributes of a floppy disk drive to utilize a device where a USB sticks flash drive emulates the storage space of a floppy disk in a solid state form, and can be divided into a number of individual virtual floppy disk images using individual data channels.
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However, while virtually all PCs have USB sticks ports, allowing the use of USB sticks flash drives, memory card readers are not commonly supplied as standard equipment .
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The ubiquity of SD cards is such that, circa 2011, due to economies of scale, their price is less than an equivalent-capacity USB sticks flash drive, even with the added cost of a USB sticks SD card reader.
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USB sticks drives give little or no advance warning of failure.
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The USB sticks plug is usually retractable or fitted with a removable protective cap.
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