The USB drive is a handy little gadget that serves the purpose
once reserved for floppy disks and Zip drives. It’s commonly
used to move folders, files, and data easily from one computer
to another in a format that’s often small enough to be given a
second job as a key chain. There’s no need to burn data into the
drive as you would with a CD or DVD; you can erase from and
overwrite onto the USB drive as often as you need to until the
darned thing falls apart. Add the fact that even USB drives
capable of storing relatively large amounts of data are pretty
darned cheap nowadays and you’ve got an ideal little workhorse
for those files that you want to be able to use between the
office, home, laptop, band camp, coffee shop, cyberpub, school,
or wherever, really. One might wonder if a miraculous device so
well suited to carting your data all over creation might have
any alternative uses — wonder no more! You can also use a USB
drive to boost your computer’s performance and run portable
applications. What’s a porta