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OCR: COMPUTEP HARDWARE What is a USB flash drive? USB flash drive, such as Sony's TERMINOLOGY NOTE MicroVault, the SanDisk Cruzer or the Kingston DataTraveler, is a portable UFD stands for USB Flash storage device that plugs directly into computer's system unit using a built-in connector (Figure 2-31 Drive Also called thumb drives, pen drives, jumpdrives, keychain drives, or UFDs, USB flash drives are about the size of highlighter pen and so durable that you can literally carry them on your key ring. USB flash drives have capacities ranging from 16 MB to 64 GB They have maximum data FIGURE 2-31 transfer speeds of about 100 Mbps but most commonly operate in the A USB flash drive plugs directly range of 18-28 megabytes per second When you want to remove into computer's system unit USB flash drive ...