USB Flash Pen Drive FAQ
| 1. | What is USB? |
| USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. It was developed in 1995 for making adding peripherals to computers as easy as hooking up a telephone to a wall-jack without any hassle. Users don't even need to shut down and restart your PC to attach or remove the USB device. Just plug-and-play! (Windows 2000 or XP provides full hot-swap support to USB devices. For earlier Windows version such as 95/98/Me/NT drivers are required.) |
| 2. | What are the
differences between USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 | |||||||
USB 2.0
(Hi-speed USB) increases the data transfer rate from 12 Mbps (Megabits per
second) of USB1.1 up to 480 Mbps.
USB specification version 2.0 is the next-generation peripheral connection for personal computers. It is intended as an upgrade for USB 1.1. Not only the new standard provides additional bandwidth for multimedia and storage applications but also offers Plug-and-Play capability and full backward compatibility for legacy USB devices. |
| 3. |
Is USB1.1 and USB2.0
convertible?
|
| USB 2.0 is fully backward compatible with USB 1.1. You are able to use a USB2.0 device in a USB 1.1 compliant system, but at USB1.1 data transfer rate. |
| 4. | How do I know if my PC
supports USB? Where can I get USB Ready? |
| For Windows 95/98/Me/NT users, you can download the free USB evaluation
utility to examine your PC's USB capabilities. Windows 2000 and XP provides full
hot-swap support to USB devices. If your PC was made during or before 1996, it probably doesn't support USB. For those computers made during or after 1998 almost has USB capabilities. |
| 5. | Do I need driver to use
the flash pen drive? |
| No driver required for Windows 2000/ME/XP, Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS X, Linux 2.4.0 or higher. Windows 98/98/Me/NT requires appropriate device driver. |
| 6. | What type of files can be stored on a
USB Flash Drive? |
| The USB Flash Drive behaves like any other hard drive, thus it supports storage of all types files provided the operating system is compatible |
| 7. | What are the
differences between brand names? |
| Basically, the ways of designing flash pen drive are similar among the different brands. However, each brand has its own design in size, color or material. Some brands design their products with multi-functions such as boot-up, password protection or MP3 player/recorder. |
STOP e-mailing files to yourself! STOP carrying around floppy diskettes! Accessing and transporting data has never been easier with these USB Flash Drives. These devices plug directly into your USB port on any compatible computer and can support up to 2GB disk space, which is 1420 times more than a 1.44MB floppy disk! Simply plug the drive into any USB port and the computer will automatically detect it as a removable drive. Now you can read, write, copy, delete and move data from your hard disk drive to the USB drive or from the USB drive to your hard disk drive. Some drives even support removable storage, so swapping cards is simple and easy.
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