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Engineering and Information Technology

By now, thumb drives like this one are almost as common as thumbs. The advance in their capacity and reduction in size holds promise for advances yet to come.

be inserted into any USB port and can store 256 GB of data or more for less than $100. These extremely portable drives make the transfer of data between devices simple. You can copy your entire photo or music collection to a thumb drive, also known as a flash or jump drive, plug it into a computer or other device, and immediately have access to your copied files. While engineering developments continue to allow smaller storage devices with larger memories, the true technological breakthroughs are occurring in the field of cloud technology.