USB drives have gotten larger and cheaper, and hence they have become more and more popular. They are actually cool little devices. They are small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, but you can plug them into any USB port and have immediate access to the data contained therein. These little guys can be used to carry your important data or documents around with you, but they can also be used to carry entire programs if you want to. Want to be able to carry your entire buddy list with you and chat from any PC? Just load it and your favorite chat program into the USB drive. Want to bring your MPS playlist with you? Load it up onto the USB drive (of course you can quickly fill it up with a bunch of MP3 files so you might want a larger drive).

You will want to have a USB 2.0 interface on your PC to use these little drives. Although they will work on USB 1.1, the speed would be grueling in comparison.

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