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Here's a useful little How-To for PC users who've tried to copy a file bigger than 2GB over to a USB flash drive and received that annoying error message "Your file is too big to copy to drive F:"  If you're copying your Outlook .PST data file onto a USB drive, this is practically guaranteed to happen since most PST files are gigantic.

And you already know you have enough space on the USB drive because it's a nice new 8GB, and the file you're trying to copy is only 3GB (let's say for our example here..), so what gives, why the error?!  

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We sell a lot of usb flash drives to the promotional market around here, and people often ask how much stuff can fit on a USB drive and what size to buy.  So here's a little bit of info that we hope will be helpful.

 Today the most popular memory size for giveaways and premiums  is 2GB, followed closely by 1GB.  So, here are some approximations of how much will fit on a drive:

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com, your leading source for custom made and custom printed USB flash drives! 

Just in time for the holidays, BestFlashDrives brings you a great new option in our rush production selection - the extremely popular Credit Card/Business Card Shaped Drive - Fast Turnaround.  

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Good news for those who have the need for speed when transferring data to USB drives or other devices - Microsoft just announced that it will be making USB 3.0 compatibility a standard part of it's new  Windows 8 operating system.   This means you won't have to download a driver to use 3.0 USB drives or devices anymore, not that this was such a big deal, but it will make everything that much easier now.

Microsoft announced that by 2015 all new PCs will come standard with USB 3.0 ports, enabling use of SuperSpeed USBs.  

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com!  We just added several new styles of custom USB drives made of wood to our website, check them out. 

These are all of a woodsy nature, that is, made of wood. 

First up is a nifty variation of the most popular drive of all, the Swing-Out drive, this is our Wood Swing-Out USB drive:

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com!  We found this very helpful article on how to make a USB drive a Windows 7 bootable drive, and how to set it up to install Windows 7 on a netbook from the USB drive. 

Here's the article on How-To Geek, enjoy!

The Intel Developers' Forum kicks off this week in San Francisco and runs from September 22nd to 24th, and with it comes some very exciting news.

It's rumored (well ok, it's been officially announced) that there will be several USB 3.0-capable devices making their debut at the show.  This new Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology is much anticipated due to the dramatic increase in connectivity speed it promises to deliver. 

In USB 2.0 connections, which have become the standard in all computers and devices connecting via USB, the average data transfer speed is somewhere between 25-35 Megabytes per second (Mbps).  The new USB 3.0 protocol, dubbed "SuperSpeed USB", has data tranfer speeds of up to 250 Megabytes per second - a factor of 10 faster! 

The Intel Developers' Forum kicks off this week in San Francisco and runs from September 22nd to 24th, and with it comes some very exciting news.

It's rumored (well ok, it's been officially announced) that there will be several USB 3.0-capable devices making their debut at the show.  This new Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology is much anticipated due to the dramatic increase in connectivity speed it promises to deliver. 

In USB 2.0 connections, which have become the standard in all computers and devices connecting via USB, the average data transfer speed is somewhere between 25-35 Megabytes per second (Mbps).  The new USB 3.0 protocol, dubbed "SuperSpeed USB", has data tranfer speeds of up to 250 Megabytes per second - a factor of 10 faster! 

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com.  We've been in contact with schools across the country for several years now, but just wanted to keep our readers updated with what we're seeing now.  Namely, besides a growth in USB drive use across the board, we're also seeing a growth in the breadth of ways the drives are utilized - not just by students, but by the administration too. 

No longer are USB drives used simply for students to share data with one another. Now we're seeing more universities that are distributing course syllabuses on USB drives, as well as course materials, outlines, and even video needed for the course work. 

This is in addition to the use of USB drives as an important recruiting tool, sent out to recruits pre-loaded with PDF's and videos about the school, giving prospective students a virtual tour of the university or college - a powerful and tangible touch point with the institution.   

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com!  We just caught wind of some exciting news that Sonic Solutions, the company running CinemaNow.com, will be releasing movies on USB flash drives. They're expected to hit stores in the next couple of months, just in time for the holiday season. 

The movie titles and costs or memory capacity of the USB flash drives has not been announced yet but we'll be sure to keep you posted.