The days of keeping all your school assignments in a trusty overgrown 3-ring binder are very quickly coming to an end. With the cost of flash memory dropping like a stone year after year, large capacity Key Drives are now priced like commodities instead of early adopter technology.
The benefits are obvious:
– The device is only the size of an average adult’s thumb
– It connects to a computer or printer via USB, (as universal a connection as there is at this point)
– Even the smallest capacity normally sold in stores (4GB) can hold almost 1,000 songs in mp3 format which translates into thousands upon thousands of basic documents.
– Pricing is down to $5-10 based on the store and sales can be found at less than $5 per unit.
The Key Drive is in effect a miniature hard drive,folder can be created to sort assignments by subject making them not only always available, but easily organized unlike paper. Larger capacity versions (as much as 64GB) are now being loaded with entire operating systems so when a computer is booted up using the Key Drive instead of the internal hard drive a person can use their own profiles and setup on any compatible computer.
Regardless of how the device will be utilized, if you want one gadget that wins hands down on the bang for your buck index, the storage of a 4 drawer file cabinet in a pack of gum is very hard to beat.