Advantages Of Flash Drives

Flash drives are durable possessing a solid state nature. Their speed depends on when the drive was released and the memory that was being used.

Flash drives are more durable than most 2.5" portable hard drives. Portable hard drives employ magnetic hard disks have movable parts that are easily breakable. On the other hand, flash drives possess a solid state nature. Flash drives are easily pocket able than a portable hard drive and are relatively less expensive. Shoppers who are mostly concerned about storage capacity will prefer portable hard drives as they offer a cheaper cost per GB. Whereas any person who is moving a few office documents, MP3 or handful of movies from one place to another, would opt for a USB flash drive due to its durability and portability.

The fastest USB 2.0 Pen drives that are available in the market are able to reach a read speed of up to 34 Megabytes per second and a write speed of up to 28 Megabytes per second. A Single Level cell (SLC) Memory is being used by the older high performance flash drives of up to 16GB in size instead of a Multi Level Cell (MLC) memory. This boosts up the write speeds for the small files as well as increasing the endurance level of flash drives. However the SLC memory is more expensive upon implementation and offers less storage capacity for the die area. The loss of SLC memory can be made up by implementing the use of quad-channel dual controllers or the custom drivers.