What is actually meant by a thumb drive ? How does it work ?

Answer 1

ITS A DATA STORING DEVICE LIKE PEN DRIVE BASED ON FLASH MEMERY

Answer 2

The ThumbDrive™ USB Flash Drive is the world's first and smallest portable storage drive. Based on Trek's patented technologies, the ThumbDrive™ combines flash memory technologies and encryption technologies with the ubiquitous USB connection to create a self-contained and highly secured drive and media package the size of a thumb. It plugs directly into the USB port of any computer and can store virtually any digital data from documents, and presentations, to music and photos.

Forget about lugging a bulky and unsafe external storage device. The ThumbDrive™ USB Flash Drive fits nicely on your keychain or in your pocket.

Answer 3

The size like a thumb or finger. It's a memory stick/flash memory stick. You plug into a USB port and it act as a floppy disk or CD ROM but with compact size and easy to carry.

Answer 4

Its a small device (there's TONS of different shapes) that plugs into your USB port and is recognized as a removable hard drive. It uses flash memory to store files (no moving parts). The flash memory retains its data even if power is removed.

Answer 5

its a small data storage device, say like your floppy.

since its size of your thumb, its called thumb drive.

Also since its size of your pen cover, its called pen drive

Also called flash drive.

it interfaces in USB Port

Don't go beyond this, its too technical for both of us.

Answer 6

thumb drive is just like removable drive it is plugged in usb and it is coming in various sizes ( 512MB, 1GB .... etc.)
it is very to use it because it works as like a hard disk u can simply copy cut paste in it.