| Get to know some of the advantages of storing | | | | need to install the drivers manually. |
| data using a pen drive. Fast, lightweight, compact and | | | | These pen drives are most popular amongst system |
| rewritable, pen drive soon became the standard for | | | | and network administrators. They can load them with |
| mobile storage device. | | | | information about configuration and software that |
| Pen drive is the ideal for people who are looking for | | | | can be used for the system`s maintenance, recovery |
| bigger space to store their data and want an | | | | and troubleshooting. They also enjoy noteworthy |
| easy-to-operate storage space. Transferring large | | | | success in the field of PC repair as a mean for |
| quantity of data from one computer to the other | | | | transferring recovery as well as antivirus software to |
| has always been a problem, mainly due to lack of | | | | infected computers, and also allowing a segment of |
| suitable data storing device. Storage mediums like CD, | | | | the data of host machine to be archived for |
| floppy and e-mails have always failed us in urgent | | | | emergency cases. |
| times because of their shortcomings like small | | | | Pen drives act as Application carriers and are utilized |
| storage and large time-consumption for data transfer. | | | | to carry applications for running on the host |
| Pen drive is the best solution to end this problem. | | | | computer without installation. Some applications that |
| These USB flash drives are integrated with a USB | | | | use this technique are U3 and airWRX. An open |
| interface. They are small, removable, lightweight and | | | | software platform, Portableapps also allows similar |
| rewritable. Their main advantages over other storage | | | | functionality on non-U3 drives. But undoubtedly the |
| devices are that they are faster, more compact, can | | | | most common use of pen drive is for personal data |
| hold more data and are much more reliable thanks to | | | | transportation you can transport and store your |
| their durable designs and lack of moving parts. It is | | | | personal files like documents, videos and pictures. You |
| the revolution of pen drives that more and more | | | | can also store certain medical alert data on Medic Tag |
| computers are being made without the floppy drive | | | | flash drives to be used in case of emergencies and |
| while the USB port has to be present on almost | | | | for preparation of disaster. Apart from this, pen |
| every mainstream computer and laptop. | | | | drives are used in Audio players. |
| A pen drive consists of a printed circuit board | | | | Pen drives present a considerable security challenge |
| generally in a metal or plastic. The memory storage | | | | for big organizations. Their ease of use and small size |
| of pen drives range from the usual to 250MB to 2GB | | | | allows unsupervised guests or unscrupulous staff to |
| or more. It is as small as a key-ring. For the pen drive | | | | smuggle off confidential data with little or no chance |
| to work, both the computer should be | | | | of detection. To avoid this, some flash drives have |
| USB-compatible systems. | | | | features like encryption of data stored on them. This |
| Pen drives are faster to use than downloading data | | | | is a preventive measure to stop an unauthorized |
| through e-mail and easier than using dozens of | | | | person from gaining access to the stored data |
| floppies. Pen drives can store data, video and audio | | | | stored. Newer pen drives support the biometric |
| files, with plug and play ease. The best feature of a | | | | fingerprinting for confirming the user`s identity. This |
| Pen Drive is you don`t need any software to make it | | | | process though costlier is a better way to protect |
| work thus simplifying your work of copying or | | | | sensitive data from leaking out. |
| transferring. Moreover, it also does not require any | | | | This article is under GNU FDL license and can be |
| type of battery. These features make the pen drive | | | | distributed without any previous authorization from |
| totally portable. | | | | the author. However the author's name and all the |
| You don`t need to install pen drive for Windows | | | | URLs (links) mentioned in the article and biography |
| 2000, XP or ME as it is done automatically by the | | | | must be kept. |
| operating system. But for Windows 95/98/98SE, you | | | | |