Pen drive a word as small
as its size, but very useful to store your data more securely. Here I am going to
give you a roundup on pendrives.This post will help you to better understand
about pen drives and sort out many confusions like- how to choose best pen drive online in India or Things to have in mind
before buying a pendrive? Which will be the best choice? Why pen drives are
used? And many more..
So let's go to the world of pen
drives!!
What a pen drive is?
So let's know what it is. A pen drive commonly known with
different names such as flash drive, USB drive, USB stick and many more. Pen
drive is basically a type of ROM i.e. EEPROM or Electrically erasable
programmable read only memory. It is basically used to transfer data from one
system to another.
Previously at starting it was coming in less memory up to
hundred megabytes but now a days it's available in large memory spaces that can
store up to 120 GB or even more. The mainly in demand right now is pen drive 8
GB, pen drive 16 GB, pen drive 32 GB, and pen drive 64 GB. Pen
drives are rewritable type of memory drive. Pen drives are used same as a CD
but the main difference is that a pen drive is rewritable and compact so easily
portable and having larger memory. Nowadays its been available in different
speeds 2.0 and 3.0. It consists of a PCB with a USB connector. Now some pen
drives comes with a USB connector on one side and OTG connector on other side
so that it can directly connected to a mobile or tablet also. It's very easy to
use a pen drive just has to plug and play you just have to know where the USB
port is situated.
Why to use Pen drive?
The most common reason of
using a pen drive is you don't have to carry a large and hard to carry hard
drive you just have to carry a small piece of plastic that you can easily carry
in your pocket or even as a key chain also. In present time the pen drive comes
in lot of designs and become a fashion statement for people. Some of the
popular pen drives are SanDisk 64GB Pendrive USB 3.0, SanDisk 16GB pendrive, Strontium annom 32GB pendrive, SanDisk 32GB Pendrive USB
3.0 etc.
What are the uses of Pen
Drive?
The most common uses of pen
drive are:
- Transferring
Data:-A
person can easily transfer data from one system to another. He just have
to plug in and copy from one system and paste in the other system.
- Taking backup:-If
at any time you need to install Windows again and have to format data once
for it you can easily take backup of important data in pen drive.
- Speeding up
computer or laptop:-A pen drive
can
also be used to speed up a computer by making it to work as RAM. In latest
Windows Microsoft had introduced a feature of Ready Boost. It is basically
when you plug in a pen drive you will get an auto play box having an
option of speed up my system after choosing this option one another dialog
box will appear having option of Dedicate this device to ready boost and
use this device. You can simply select any of them and your device will
start working as RAM.
- Keeping
essential data always with you:-A
pen drive is having a space of some GB. You have some data that you have
to carry always with you like some files related to your project, any
photos or any other important documents. In that case you can easily store
that data in pen drive and easily carry in your pocket.
- Run a separate
OS:-If
anytime you want to run any other OS without making any modification to hard disk then
you can simply install it using a pen drive.
- Run drop box or
Google drive:-Sometimes you have to access
data from cloud on a public computer a pen drive can be used to perform
this task.
- As a audio
player:-Nowadays many companies are
introducing pen drive with audio output and some are having rechargeable
battery also with an audio jack.
- Applications
portability:-You can easily carry some of the
applications like Mozilla, chrome and
many more and directly access to any computer by just connecting pen drive without
installing it to the computer.