I'm a 90's kid and before we had USB flash drives there were CDs and floppy disks, although my 13 year old cousin probably doesn't know what those are any of these. USB flash drives are commonly used for the same reasons CDs and floppy disks were used. They all store information, back it up, and transfer the information and other files to a computer. The biggest difference is that USB flash drives are much smaller, faster, and their load capacity is thousands of times higher than its predecessors. They are also much more durable and reliable because they are reliably built single-body devices with rarely any moving parts. Amir Ban, Dov Moran and Oran Ogdan invented the USB stick. They were first produced in 1998 by the Israeli company M-Systems and patented in 1999. USB flash drives usually range from two gigabytes to over 250 gigabytes and come in a variety of styles, shapes, colors and other innovative designs . Most USB flash drives are manufactured in China, Taiwan, Japan and/or Korea. A USB flash drive is made up of 8 internal components: the standard USB male A connector (the metal piece we see first), a USB mass storage device controller, a NAND flash memory chip, a crystal oscillator, a LED and a cover. Flash memory chips are made by layering alternating stacks of polysilicon (conduit) and isolated silicon dioxide. The crystal oscillator is made of quartz crystals. You can use natural quartz or synthetic quartz. Quartz is commonly found throughout the world. Quartz mines are largely located in North Carolina. LED is made of inorganic semiconductor materials; these materials are usually crystalline inorganic solids. The cover, which protects t...... half of the paper...... USB stick, mainly based on the design could be assembled and produced by hand because this would not only be quite energy efficient but very probably convenient. This methodology would work better for smaller production volumes. For larger production volumes, it would be more advantageous to invest in machines and robots that could have the complexities that a human worker could not and supply would increase more quickly. In summary, the total costs of fuel, maintenance, employment and supply and demand abroad, and communication costs, it would be much cheaper and perhaps more efficient if these small information stores could be produced in the United States, but it just doesn't work in this way. For now everything depends on the quantity produced and the impact it will have on society, the well-being of workers and the economy.