Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Jump Drive / USB plug


A "jump drive" is a small memory chip in a plastic case.
It is used to store small amounts of computer data, for example, 2 GIG or 4 GIG (GigaBytes).

One character (A-Z) is a byte.

1,000 bytes = 1 kilobyte
1,000,000 bytes = 1 MegaByte (Meg)
1,000,000,000 bytes = 1 GigaByte (GIG)
1,000,000,000,000 bytes = 1 TeraByte

The plug on the left is called a USB plug (Universal Serial Bus).
Almost all computer peripheral devices today use a USB plug.