The truth is, flash storage has gone so mainstream that you may not even realize how many ways it touches your life, or how much we depend on it to fuel new apps and services that we simply didn’t have even a decade ago.

Take today’s teenager as a prime example. Teenagers are data-generating machines (thank you Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, etc.), and much of their digital activity relies on flash storage. Here are three things that flash makes possible for them—things we would never have been able to do when we were kids.

1. Music streaming

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