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