PEN Drive

As you have seen USB port in the personal computer and laptop which can easily plug in with the removable storage device for data transfer. When we are talking about storage devices then you cannot forget the name of USB pen drive. Pen drive is a compact, removable storage device such as CD ROM or floppy disk but very small as compare to CD ROM and floppy disk. Pen drive can easily connect with the USB port (Universal Serial Bus) and data can be transferred quickly to and from the pen drive.
High storage capacity (1 to 8 GB) makes the pen drive very effective storage device as compare to other one. Popularity of pen drive is increasing and many user are using it very large volume for personal use or official use.
All pen drives supports almost all new or old operating system such as windows xp, mac os 2 and linux etc.when you connect it through USB post, this will be recognized and mounted automatically and looks like other partition of hard drive like c, d and etc. Pen drives are available in many shapes and sizes. Different Manufacturers have derived different name for pen drives such as jump drive, USB key drive, thumb drive and etc.

Features of pen drive:

Easily connect to the pc and high storage capacity.
You can store your personal data such as video, picture, audio songs etc.
When your system has been infected due to virus attack then you can store data into the pen drive for emergency.
System administrator store software for maintenance, troubleshooting, and recovery.
As an application carrier
As audio players