Step three: What you are now holding is the flash drive, in my case a 16 gig flash drive. (Reference Picture) Underneath the front of the 4 USB contacts there should be a small plastic lip (Reference photo), This will ultimately separate the USB memory from the enclosure.

Step two: Once you have removed the metal case you should be left with a piece of plastic with the standard 4 pin USB contacts, and a larger piece of plastic seemingly encasing that first piece of plastic. Step one: Get a small flat head, use it to pry the two joining pieces apart at the bottom of the USB metal case. This will be a short summary, mostly a step by step of what you will find and how to replicate this project.

Basic Knowledge of Flash drives and USB systems.

Disassembling things gives you a good idea on how other think, and in this case on how big companies engineers think. This project goal is to disassemble of a SanDisk Cruzer Fit 16 GB usb Flash Drive for purpose of gaining a low profile flash drive and learning exactly how they are built.

How to open sandisk flash drive