How does a flash drive like pendrive can store such a large
amount of data? In a few words i actually want to know the whole
setup of pendrive/flash drive which help it to store data in it,
in simple and plain language for the person lile me who have no
relation with this feild. Please help me to come out of this
mind boggling question. The flash drive has flash memory chips.
The electrons flow from the computer to the flash drive and a
signal tells the flash drive to set each memory cell in the
flash memory to a certain value, either 1 or 0. That's how it
stores the data. Look it up on google for much more
information.... Flash memory, or Nand memory: Is what we call
none volatile memory. What it means is. It does not require the
memory chip to have a constant feed of electricity to retain the
data stored on it, say when you unplug it from the computer once
storing the data on it. It is retained, until the data is
overwritten by user intervention, data replaced or wiped,
deleted from the device, by the user.