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How to Use a USB Drive to Back Up Your Data

USB Stuff2022-12-09T16:16:42+00:00

Backing up your data is a critical part of data security. With technology advancing so rapidly, it can be hard to keep up. One of the most popular ways to back up your data is to use a USB drive. USB drives are an easy way to store and transfer data, and they are relatively inexpensive. In this article, we'll discuss how to use a USB drive to back up your data. First, let's talk about what a USB drive is....

Testing your USB flash drive for fake storage capacity

USB Stuff2019-10-15T22:49:12+01:00

As disk storage becomes cheaper to produce and higher capacity storage devices become more affordable, an unfortunate side effect has been an increased number of "fake" USB flash drives flooding the market. This leaves consumers cheated out of their money, and worse still, at risk of losing data stored on the device. ...

USB flash drive storage capacity explained

USB Stuff2019-10-15T22:03:21+01:00

A question we're often asked is "why does my USB flash drive show less storage space when plugged into a computer?". You might even think you've been sold less storage capacity than was advertised! Let's say you've bought a USB flash drive advertising 32GB of storage space. However, when you go to plug it into your computer it shows the available space to be 29.2GB. What's happened to the extra 2.8 GB of space you were expecting? ...