USB is a technology that is virtually as popular as cyberspace and due to its great flexibility and prevalence it’s come to be used in a lot of different ways. Companies looking to get ahead of the game and have an advantage over their competitors in terms of marketing are taking advantage of this, via the use of promotional USB sticks. Here are some of the myriad of ways USB storage can be used, and help your brand identity in doing so.
Backup: A big number of USB flash drives are used as inexpensive, effective and dependable gizmos to back up vital documents and photos. USB storage uses next to no electrical power, it can store files virtually infinitely and flash storage is very tough – all things leading to its enormous growth as a great way of safekeeping files. Every crucial meeting presentation, invoice and speech will have a copy somewhere in case the original gets lost. Where do you think such copies are stored? Promotional USB sticks provide a fast, easy resolution for folks needing to save a document, while providing the firm who gave them out a quick, easy methodology to promote themselves.
Performance: More than 50% of all computers using the web do so operating either Windows Vista or Windows 7. Both of these operating systems support Windows ReadyBoost, which enables users to plug in promotional USB sticks or flash drives and make use of the free space to enhance the computer’s available memory. In old machines, doing this can lengthen the speed of loading some sites by as much as 500%. Computers suffer slowdowns, and flash storage is an easy way to help increase performance. As more and more computers look to upgrade from Windows XP, technologies like ReadyBoost are poised to place promotional USB sticks in the hands of more people.
File Transfer: Most contemporary computers are connected to the Net, a global network allowing file sharing in the form of websites and other protocols. But high speed internet access is still not universally available, with some rural places being forced to use dialup connections or suffering no connection at all. A famous race took place between a carrier pigeon sending 4GB of data on a flash drive from the UK to Africa, and a computer transmitting the same files in Africa through the internet. The carrier pigeon got the data to its destination fastest, proving that sometimes the internet isn’t always the best solution and that traditional, offline methods work better sometimes.
System Recovery: No IT technician or professional worth his salt owns a USB flash drive without a collection of system recovery tools and software. USB storage is extremely cheap and very, very dependable meaning a good flash drive is the Swiss Army knife of the computer industry. If a computer won’t boot, can’t access the internet or suffers other typical problems, utilizing a promotional USB stick is probably the most common way of getting files across to fix it. USB flash storage works across Windows, Linux and Mac and you’re far more likely to find a USB port than a CD or floppy drive.
USB flash drives are most likely one of the most popular ways to inter-link with a computer, and everybody from instructors to students to lawyers to engineers will probably either utilize or need them at some point in their everyday lives. By using a branded custom USB drives as a token of your appreciation to clients or just to promote your enterprise, you can make your business more special.
