Today we will be taking a look at some of the newer communication standards being used in flash drives. The USB 3.0 Flash Drive standard being used for communication in the newer model pen drives features a much needed improvement in both the connector and the protocol that was used for data transfer.

Memory sticks in the form of USB 2.0 flash drives and memory cards, a revolutionary innovation in the form of re-writeable memories. Conventional storage methods were big and bulky, they stored very little (I’m looking at you floppy drives) and had multiple mechanical components prone to wear and tear with the passage…