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Flash drives, often called thumb drives or jump drives, are small memory sticks that can hold a lot of data. There are a variety of sizes you can buy. In most stores you can find flash drives that hold anywhere from 2 GB to 32 GB of memory; larger ones are available as well. Even though flash drives have been used to transfer viruses onto computers to destroy data, there are plenty of benefits of them. If you use a personal flash drive, you should not have to worry about transferring viruses onto your computer.

If your computer acts slowly, you can speed it up by deleting data, but if you want to keep documents or pictures that are located on your computer, you can simply transfer them to your flash drive. They are a great idea if you are looking to save space on your computer. You can also use them to save data in case your computer crashes, then you will have a backup.

You can use flash drives to transfer documents onto different computers. Flash drives allow for easy portability. You can easily open and edit documents from a jump drive on a different computer. This makes it easy to work on one computer and print out your project on another, or show a presentation.

Flash drives are a great modern way to store data. Most has a lot more memory capacity than your home computer, so it is a great option to hold data once your computer reaches maximum  memory capacity.