USB flash drives go by many different names: USB drives, pen drives, USB keys, thumb drives, pocket drives, data sticks, and even memory sticks. Regardless of how you call them, they are relatively inexpensive data storage devices with flash memory chips and an integrated USB interface that makes it easy to plug them into any computer.
Because USB flash drives use the USB mass storage device class standard, they work right-out-of-the-box on Windows, Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems. Because there’s no meaningful difference between USB flash drives and SD cards when it comes to recovering deleted photos, you can use all five methods described in the first chapter of this article.
How Disk Drill serves other users