How does a USB drive hold so much?
Trillion Tiny Buckets
How does a USB drive hold so much?
You slide a USB stick into your computer — smaller than your thumb — and it holds thousands of songs, entire movies, all your photos. How does something so tiny hold so much?
Inside that plastic case lives a memory chip no bigger than your pinky nail. Zoom way in and you'd see it's covered with millions of tiny storage cells, each one microscopic. Every cell is like a bucket that can hold electrons — those tiny particles that make up electricity.
