Advancements to the USB Flash Drive

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I am a 90s kid and before we had USB flash drives there were CDs and floppy disks, although my 13-year-old cousin probably does not know what either of those are. USB flash drives are commonly used for the same reasons CDs and floppy disks were used for. They all store information, back up that information, as well as transfer the information and other files to a computer. The biggest difference is that USB flash drives is that they are much smaller, faster, and they carrying capacity size is over a thousands times more than its predecessors. They are also much more durable and reliable because they are singular-bodied device that is built reliably with no moving parts, rarely. Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oran Ogdan invented the USB flash drive. They were first manufactured in 1998 by the Israeli company M-Systems and patented in 1999. USB flash drives usually range from two gigabytes to over 250 gigabytes and come in a variety of styles, shapes, colors and other novelty designs. Most USB flash drives are manufactured in China, Taiwan, Japan, and/or Korea.

A USB flash drive is made of 8 internal components: the USB Standard- Male A-Plug (the metal piece we first see), a USB mass storage controller device, a NAND flash memory chip, a crystal oscillator, an LED, and a cover. Flash memory chips are made by layering alternated stacks of (conducted) polysilicon and insulated silicon dioxide. The crystal oscillator is made from quartz crystals. Natural quartz or synthetic-made quartz can be used. Quartz is commonly found all around the world. Quartz mines are largely located in North Carolina. The LED is made from inorganic semiconductor materials; these materials are usually crystalline inorganic solids. The cover, which protects t...

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... USB flash drive, mainly by design they could be assembled and manufactured by hand because this would not only decently energy efficient but more than likely cost effective. This methodology would work best for smaller production volumes. For bigger production volumes, it would be more beneficial to put an investment in machines and robots that could have the complexities that a human worker could not and supply would increase faster.

In sum, the total costs of fuel, maintenance, employment, and supply and demand overseas, and communicative costs it would be much cheaper and possibly more efficient if these small storages of information could be manufactured on US grounds, but it simply does not work that way. For now, it all depends on the manufactured quantity and how big of an impact it will have on the society, the welfare of the workers and the economy.

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