| A pen drive is generally used for taking all our work in | | | | particularly the floppy drive. They are more compact, |
| it so that we can roam and use it wherever and | | | | faster, hold more data, are more reliable due to their |
| whenever we want. One can take their official work | | | | lack of moving parts, and have a more durable design |
| in this small device and can use it later at the | | | | compared to that of a floppy drive. Additionally, it |
| comfort of their homes. | | | | has become increasingly common for computers to |
| It has been years since floppy disks have | | | | be manufactures without floppy disk drives. USB |
| transformed themselves into much smaller drives | | | | ports, on the other hand, appear on almost every |
| called âPen Drivesâ making it easier | | | | current mainstream PC and laptop. These types of |
| to store and carry data from one computer to | | | | drives use the USB mass storage standard, |
| another. Computer users always craved for | | | | supported by modern operating systems such as |
| something that can carry huge amount of documents | | | | Windows, Mac OS X and other Linux systems. All |
| easily and safely. To this, Pen Drives have emerged | | | | major manufactures like Jet flash, Sony, Apacer, |
| as a solution. Accessing and transporting data has | | | | Sandisk, Lexar, Ritek Ridata, Transcend, Kingston, |
| been made easier with the use of the same. | | | | Super media, Super Flash,etc provide data retrieval |
| Basically, USB flash drives are NAND- type flash | | | | for both type of formatting and deletion, either by |
| memory data storage devices integrated with a USB | | | | Apple Macintosh or Microsoft Windows operating |
| connector. They are typically small, lightweight, | | | | system. Transcend and Kingston are among the |
| removable and rewritable. They offer many | | | | leaders making waves in the pen drive industry. |
| advantages over other portable storage devices, | | | | |