Flash drives as gifts or personalised promotions

I am short on time this week, so this post will be brief and none too original.

Most people with a PC or laptop will have a flash drive. These devices are often called a memory stick although the two are different kinds of peripherals.

In short, what a flash drive does is allow you to quickly transfer (almost) any kind of data to or from the flash drive using a PC or laptop. The transfer is fast and the data can then be transferred to another machine without the need for more complex or time consuming connection methods.

The flash drive uses a usb port and the device should be automatically recognised for what it is by any operating system like XP or Vista. This means that it will be allocated its own icon in the “My Computer” window enabling data to be “dragged and dropped” to or from the drive.

It is simple and fast, and a flash drive is tiny meaning that you can always have one with you.

Memory sizes go up to 16GB although the 1GB versions are cheap as chips and just about as useful.

One thing to be aware of with a flash drive is the security – or lack there of. If you intend to use one to carry around confidential information, you may be advised to use an encrypting program in the event of loss or theft.

And finally, to the reason for this post!

A number of companies will now personalise a flash drive with a logo, text, or other visual graphic. This makes them a useful and affordable commercial promotion for customers and clients. It also make them a good gift idea.

Here is a site that offer these thing in their “pimped up” form,
http://www.calendarlady.co.uk/promotional_items/personalised_usb_flash_drive.shtml.