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SanDisk Cruzer Micro, a brand of USB flash drives A Kingston
card reader which accepts Micro SD memory cards (Transcend card
shown inserted) and acts as a USB flash drive, resulting in a
size of approximately 2 cm in length, 1 cm in width and 2 mm in
thickness  A USB flash drive is a data storage device that
includes flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus
(USB) interface. USB flash drives are typically removable and
rewritable, and physically much smaller than an optical disc.
Most weigh less than 30 grams (1.1 oz).[1] As of January 2013,
drives of up to 512 gigabytes (GB) were available.[2] A one-
terabyte (TB) drive was unveiled at the 2013 Consumer
Electronics Show and became available later this year.[3]
Storage capacities as large as 2 TB are planned, with steady
improvements in size and price per capacity expected.[4] Some
allow up to 100,000 write/erase cycles, depending on t