Which Flash Drive Size Do I Need?
It may feel like you’re left with too many choices when buying a custom USB flash drive. You’re given countless options on style, shape, color and function. But one of the most important choices you’ll make for your flash drive is storage size. Today, USBs come in an array of capacities—from 128MB to 64GB [...]
Funny USB Flash Drive Fails
Internet culture has evolved into some strange brands of humor and nowhere is this more evident than with FAILS. At Premium USB, we’re mixing things up a bit and we’ve compiled a list of flash drive fails to keep you entertained. Some may make you shake your head in vicarious embarrassment, others may make you [...]
Global Unique Identifier: What is it?
A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is a string of numbers given to a particular object to distinguish itself from another object on a given system. The most common and widespread form of UUID is the Global Unique Identifier (GUID) associated with Microsoft systems. There are other forms of identifiers including Linux’s ext2/ext3 file system, the [...]
How to speed up slow USB Flash Drives
We all have old flash drives roaming around for one reason or another, perhaps in a desk drawer or in an old coffee mug somewhere, but did you know that you cannot continue to use your old drives, but you can actually increase their performance as well? Older flash drives tend to have smaller capacities [...]
What does “Safely Remove Hardware” mean?
For anyone who has ever plugged in a USB device such as a USB flash drives or external storage, you may have noticed that you will have a bubble that appears that says “Safely Remove Hardware”. Or if you have used the device and are familiar with your bottom right taskbar, you will have noticed [...]
