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