Various names are there like Flash drives, Thumb drives, Jump drives, memory keys, Pen drives, etc for a memory stick. However, the most common name is USB stick. The first memory sticks were made available in the market near the end of 2000. The companies that made it available for the public were IBM and Trek Technology. The former named the device as ‘DiskOnKey’ whereas the later called it ‘ThumbDrive’. Whatever names they were called with, both the devices had similar functions and perhaps were the answer for what are memory sticks? Since then a huge number of small and large sized companies produced such USB sticks and called it with various names.

Detailed description of memory sticks

Memory sticks are such devices that can store data in it and it consists of a NAND flash memory included inside a small circuit tray or board. This may be connected to various other types of devices having a Universal Serial Bus port through a female USB connection. The part that stores the memory is usually enclosed in metal, rubber, or plastic casing of various sizes. The memory is a tiny thing that’s why it is small, and it allows us to get that in many variants of shapes. They may be as small as a key chain or as big as a hard drives.

Usage of memory sticks

After getting an idea of what are memory sticks, now it time to know how memory sticks can be used. It holds data within itself and they can be attached to the USB ports in computers, laptops, music players, etc. In short anything that has a USB port can hold a memory stick. In laptops or computers, you can plug-in a memory stick and then transfer data to and from the memory stick.

Advantages of the memory sticks

They are almost like the previous days’ floppies and compact discs. The size is too little compared to them and therefore very much portable. Secondly, in memory sticks the data transfer takes place at a very fast pace and therefore it can keep pace with the fast and advance technology of the world. The memory capacity is also higher, which is again an added advantage along with the feature of its reusability. Unlike simple compact discs, in the memory sticks you may enter and delete data as many times as you want. These advantages have made the memory sticks, known by a lot number of names, so popular in the recent times.