| A thumb drive -- also known as a pen drive or flash drive or USB drive or jump drive or memory stick -- is a keychain-sized, light-weight storage disk (like a fixed disk inside your PC except that it's not fixed and it's smaller) that you can easily connect to a computer's USB port for instant access. Depending on the manufacturer, the price and storage capacity of a thumb drive varies. At the moment, 2007, prices range from $10 to $300 with capacities running from 512 megabytes to 16 gigabytes.
Using XKat in conjunction with a thumb drive is a winning combination.
Connect the drive to a computer and run XKat to quickly back up or synchronize files between the drive and the PC. Very convenient. An instant backup. Also, with thumb drive in hand, you can now transport files to another computer, reversing the process, again using XKat to copy files back and forth. |
