National Flash Drive Day 2024
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I notice the performance of the half terrabyte drives to be somewhat lacking. The throughput is often choppy and delayed. I don't know if it's Sandisk or Microsoft ... but they're both pretty lame organizations as far as I am concerned.
The flash drive is a spin off of flash memory, invented by Dr Fujio Masuoka who was working for Toshiba.
The actual flash drive device is the brainchild of Israeli scientists working for M-Systems: Dov Moran, Oron Ogdan, and Amir Ban and they are the inventors of the chip which became the flash drive device itself. The name is derived by the quick erase properties of the memory such that it displaced other removable media such as the floppy.
April 5 as the official National Flash Drive Day which pays homage to that improvement in storage brought by these devices.
I think it's essential to pack a flash drive for those items I like to have access to when away from my machine. It is much less tedious than the plastic boxes full of floppies I used to cart around.
I hope you'll take a moment on this National Flash Drive Day to consider the benefits of this technology.
Happy National Flash Drive Day to you !
See Also:
National Flash Drive Day 2022
National Device Appreciation Day 2023