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A flash drive is a portable computer drive that uses flash memory. Flash drives are the larger memory modules consisting of a number of flash chips. A flash chip is used to read the contents of a single cell, but it can write entire block of cells.

Types of flash drives:-

Flash memory-based CompactFlash (CF) card (including CFast card) and XQD card (Note: some other types of CF and XQD card are not flash memory-based)
Memory Stick (MS)
MultiMediaCard (MMC)
Secure Digital card (SD, SDHC, SDXC)
SmartMedia card (SM)
Solid-state drive, SSD, using flash memory (a few SSDs use DRAM or MRAM)
USB flash drive (UFD)
xD-Picture Card (xD)

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 A '''flash drive''' is a portable computer drive that uses [[flash memory]]. Flash drives are the larger memory modules consisting of a number of '''flash chips.''' A flash chip is used to read the contents of a single cell, but it can write entire block of cells.
 [[File:Custom_USB_Drives.JPG|thumb|Assortment of flash drives]]
-== Specific flash drive types ==
+Types of flash drives:-
 * Flash memory-based [[CompactFlash]] (CF) card (including [[CFast]] card) and [[XQD card]] (Note: some other types of CF and XQD card are not flash memory-based)
 * [[Memory Stick]] (MS)

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