Flash drives, or thumb drives, are portable devices that provide easy access to flash storage. Commonly used to take backups, transfer files between devices, and install operating system images, these ...

Flash drives are a dying technology, according to the inventor of the USB device, Dov Moran. While they're useful devices for making data more mobile, cloud connectivity is starting to take its place.

USB flash drives are handy devices to have because of their usefulness. One obvious use case for a flash drive is, of course, storage. However, there are many extra ways to use your USB flash drive.