The main function is to store information and data. Now you can take your important and big size file to anywhere with it, and you can continue your un-finished work at home by using the flash disk. There are more and more additional value attached to the USB flash disk, for example: virus killer, finger-print security, U3 , etc. USB flash disk with multi-function is a tendency with no doubt.
Now it comes in 64m,128m,256m,512m, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, etc. Higher capacity will be available in the near future.
It support windows 98/2000/SE/ME/XP.MAC OS 9/ Linux v2.4and higher version etc ,but you need a driver under windows 98 system only.
It can’t work under windows 95 or NT because these two operation system don’t support USB device.
USB flash disk can only work with USB port, it can insert into USB port of PC directly .
Yes, but it depends on different model. If there is a model with a switch on side , when you move the switch to “off”, then you can only read the files on the flash disk, but if when you move to “on”, you can read and write on the flash disk.
When the Nand-flash was manufactured , they reserved a certain amount of capacity for programming and also for repairing substitute. This is normal and adapting to all storage devices.
The data can be kept on USB flash disk at least 10 years and it can be plugs and played around 1 million times
Your operating system may prompt a warning message, but, this will not cause any physical damage to your USB flash disk, but the data being transferred will be lost.
Yes, it is possibly can be infected with virus like other storage devices, so we suggest that you can install a virus-killer software on your PC. But the virus can’t damage the device physically due to its own self-protection function.