Data is a very important aspect of any individual or organization. This is simply because with data, one is usually able to handle almost anything that he wants. For instance, students need their assignaments and their source materials while an organization deals with data at every stage. A bank will alsways need data about their customers. Unfortunately, the world is a very treicky place and anything can happen. Data that has taken many years to develop can always disappear especially when the whole system crashes. However, there are many ways of data recovery that are very important in today’s world. Some of them are: cloud computing, USB Flash Drive, External Hard Disc and also Network recovery. This article will expound more on USB Flash Drive Recovery and look at some of its advantages and disadvantages.
The first advantage of using a USB flash drive is that it is a small and less expensive data recovery tool. It can be carried anywhere any time because of the fact that it is small. The memory range of USB flash drives are 256MB-20GB.
A flash drive has a number of disadvantages. One, the memory capacity is not that much. Therefore, it cannot be used from an organization point of view. Rather, it should be used for an individual. Secondly, a USB flash drive is small and can always get lost. In many cases, USB flash drive has been lost just because it is small. Thirdly, the USB flash drive can always crash. This is a very common phenomenon and usually leads to very bad consequences. This is more so when buys from brands that are not very well known. Therefore, when the drive crashes, chances of recovering the data are usually very rare. Therefore, a USB flash drive should be used at very small scale.