U3 Software site, some free (such as Mozilla's e-mail client Thunderbird, or the Open Office suite including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing tool and a database), and some in the $20 to $100 range (personal information managers or password keepers and games). There is a large number of applications available for them at the I suspect that eventually, they will take over the world. Software developers wanting U3-enabled software use a U3 development kit, which installs the necessary enhancements, and USB drives must be built to conform to the U3 standard.
U3 applications can launch when the USB drive is inserted, and leave no trace on the host computer when removed. U3 smart drives have built-in password protection, and are available from 256MB to 4GB from a variety of manufacturers. Supplying flash drives with software became a big deal with a technology called U3, developed in 2004 by M-Systems and SanDisk, which lets users run U3-enabled applications on any Windows computer without installing or storing anything on the guest computer. has just issued the Aegis Mini, a 60 GB drive about the size of a package of process cheese singles. I have a 5 GB Seagate hard disk at home not much larger (though heavier) than a pickle-jar lid, but it has been replaced by newer technology:Īpricorn Inc. Most flash drives now come bundled with software, mainly because of market pressure from other flash manufacturers and from ever-smaller hard-disk drives. I don't think they even make them that small any more - the smallest are about 256 MB, and the serious ones run from 1 to 4 GB. My first flash drive, which I got about six years ago, offered me a whopping 8 megabytes of data.
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