Jump drive

Also known as a USB flash drive and thumb drive, a jump drive is a portable drive that is often the size of your thumb that connects to the computer USB port. Today flash drives are available in various sizes including but not limited to 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 5GB, 16GB, and beyond and are widely used as an easy and small way to transfer AND store information from their computer.

To the right is an example picture of the SanDisk Cruzer Micro 16GB flash drive and a good example of what many flash drives look like. As can be seen in this picture the drive has a small casing that stores the flash memory connected to a USB connection that is plugged into the USB port on your computer.

• See document CH001064 for additional information about why you don't need to run defrag on a flash drive.

Also see: Hard disk drive definitions, Memory definitions, Solid State Device, SSD, Storage, USB