USB flash drive (uga asring karan Flashdisk utawa UFD) ya iku piranti panyimenan data memori flash tipe NAND sing duwé piranti penghubung USB kang terintegrasi. Flash drive racaké ukurané cilik, ringan, sarta bisa diwaca lan gampang ditulisi. Saiki, kapasitas sing disedakaké kanggo USB flash drive ana saka 8 gigabyte nganti 512 gigabyte. Gedhenè kapasitas flashdisk tergantung saka téknologi memori flash sing digunakaké.

Panemu lan Sajarah 
Panemu Flash Memory (NOR dan NAND) ya iku Dr Fujio Masuoka taun 1984 nalika kerja ing Toshiba déné jeneng flash dhéwé sing njenengi kancanè, Mr. Shoji Ariizumi.
Durung bisa dipesthekakè sapa sing pertama ngembangakè USB flash drive amarga ana telung perusahaan sing ngembangke kaping pisan, ya iku M-Systems, Netac, lan Trek 2000
Flash drive wiwit dipasarakè taun 2001 ing Amérika déning IBM. Ukuran data sing bisa disimpen nalika iku ya iku 8 MB, data sing terakhir November 2006 wis tekan 64 GB.

USB Flash Drive ing Windows 
Sistem operasi Microsoft Windows ngimplementasikakè USB flash drive dadi
USB Mass Storage Device, lan nggunakaké device driver usbstor.sys. Amarga Windows duwé fitur auto-mounting, lan USB flash drive iku perangkat plug and play, Windows arep nyoba nglakokaké sabisané nalika perangkat mau dicolokakè ing jero soket USB. Windows XP lan sing sawisé malah duwé fitur Autoplay, sing ngijinakè flash drive diakses sakabehané kanggo nentokakè apa isi ing jero USB flash drive mau.
Nanging flashdisk dadi médhia empuk kanggo panyebaran virus, amarga kemampuan virus kanggo nyalin virus dhéwé ning flashdisk lan nglakokakè otomatis nalika dicolokaké ing port USB (fungsi Autoplay ing sistem Windows ora dipateni). Akèh virus komputer lokal kaya déné Brontok/RontokBro, PendekarBlank, lan virus lokal liyané nggunakaké USB flash drive dadi médhia transmisi virus saka inang siji marang inang liyanè, nggantekakè disket. Virus-virus sing akéh-akéhé lumaku ning dhuwur windows luwih rikat nyebar tinimbang Windows sing ngakses drive nggunakaké fitur autoplay duwekè Windows. Amarga, ana apikè kanggo nonaktifkè fitur autoplay, sanajan ora mbiyantu kanggo nyegah panyebaran virus.

Pranala njaba

Aplikasi keydrive 
 7 Karakter Karakter Penting dari Flashdisk di beritanet.com oleh Heni 
 USBApps-Listing of USB keydrive applications

 TinyApps-Tiny applications for your USB keydrive
 StandAlone-Stand alone applications for your USB keydrive
 airWRX-USB Keydrive application framework
 kikizas.net -Freeware programs to run from a USB stick
 Portable Freeware-The Portable Freeware Collection
 RUNT-ResNet Network Tester for USB Keydrives
 CrossCrypt
 FreeOTFE-Free open-source disk encryption software for Microsoft Windows and Windows Mobile
 BestCrypt
 Gaim-a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows.
 Portable OpenOffice-A complete office suite for your USB pen drive
 Portable NVU-The Complete Web Authoring System
 Portable AbiWord-the popular word processor AbiWord optimized for USB pen drive use
 Portable Mozilla Stuff
 Portable Firefox-Web browser
 Portable Thunderbird-Email
 Portable Sunbird-Calendar application
 News and Review -Flash Drive News and Short Review

Situs-situs HOWTO 

 Encrypted thumb drive and autoplay howto-Open source tools and a very clear walkthrough
 Combining encryption and mobility howto -A guide on using Portable Firefox, Thunderbird, Instant Messenger in a secure way

Distribusi GNU/Linux untuk USB 
 DamnSmallLinux (DSL), a small derivative of Knoppix, tailored to USB
 Knoppix USB Based.
 featherlinux - distribution specifically created for USB sticks
 Flash-Puppy a mature distro designed for keydrives 
 Flonix: USB Keydrive Operating System 
 Generic Howto on USB booting, incl. with using a floppy/CD for the initial boot if the BIOS does not support USB
 Installing Debian from a USB stick
 LiveDistro.org - Operating systems and HOWTOs for LiveUSBs

Cathetan suku 

Media panyimpanan data komputer
flash drive
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