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    WHAT IS PEN DRIVE AND HOW ITS WORK

Pen Drive is a storage drive used to transfer files. It is also commonly called USB flash drive. It is a portable device which means that it can be easily transferred from one location to another. Its design is very compact and it looks like a pen shape. It is also called pen drive.

These pen drives are used in many places all over the world. With this it has easily replaced many storage devices such as CD's, Floppy Disk as it has more data storage capacity and transferring speed than them. Pen drives or USB flash drives are connected to the computer via USB (Universal Serial Bus) Ports which are available on computer motherboards. These devices do not require external power supply as these power directly USB port. 

Being micro, lightweight and handy, it can be easily carried from one place to another by any students, professionals, academicians and independent tech consultants. The pen drive is mainly used for storing and transferring data. It can easily transfer audio, video, and other data files from one computer to another. As long as desktop and laptop It has a USB port and is compatible with the pen drive operating system as long as the Pen Drive will continue to be used.

               Storage Capacity and Format

Floppy disks, CDs and DVDs were used before Pen Drive was used. These storage devices used to be large and had very little storage space. USB Pen Drive was developed to overcome these problems. Talking about the present time, at the moment it is not fast portable storage medium data recording and to read. Due to its many features, it soon became more popular. It is believed that it got the name "Pen Drive" because it was like a pencil in appearance. Its storage capacity currently ranges from 1 Gb to 128 Gb, and it is available in many shapes and sizes.

                Characteristics of Pen Drive

Here I am going to tell you about the different features of Pen Drive.

1. It is made of many materials like Plastic, Metal etc. which makes it light.

2. There are many types of its length from 1 cm to 6 cm.

3. Its capacity ranges from 512 Mb to 128 Gb.

4. It gets power from USB port.

5. It is very portable so that it can be used anywhere anytime.

6. Its thickness varies from 1 cm to 3 cm.

7. Its width varies from 1 cm to 3 cm.

                      How to use pen drive?

Pen drive is very easy to use, inserting one end of pen drive into USB port of computer. And as soon as you insert a drive in my computer. From where the drive is accessed. And computer's home screen shows some notification after pen drive is connected, you can drag and drop or copy and paste any file.

The pen drive is manufactured in such a way that it can be used on any OS (operating system).

                    Uses of Pen Drive:

What are the uses of pen drive?

USB flash drives are often used for the same purposes for which floppy disks or CDs were used; That is, storage, data back up and transfer of computer files.

They are smaller, faster, have thousands of times more capacity, and are more durable and reliable because they have no moving parts.

Usage of USB pen drive

1) Transport:

The most common use of USB pen drives is to transport or store personal files such as documents, pictures and videos.

2) Computer Repair:

USB pen drives are heavily used in the PC repair sector, such as installing antivirus software on PCs, Windows recovery, troubleshooting etc.

3) Carry Applications:

USB pen drives are used to carry applications running on the host computer without the need for installation. Along with this, many applications of education are distributed from the pen drive itself.

  4) As Audio Players:

Many companies make solid state digital audio players in a small form factor. The MP3 playback function is the most popular for USB pen drives. Some of them also have an LCD display and audio input jack and a rechargeable battery for browsing the track.

5) Boot Operating Systems:

Today most PC firmware allows booting from a USB drive, allowing you to boot PUSI from your pen drive. You can also perform OS recovery by creating recovery media.

6) Operating system installation

Many operating systems can be installed from Pendrive. You can install Windows 7, Windows 8, Linux, Mac OS etc. from a pen drive.

7) Backup:

Today pen drives are also used as backup.

                   Benefits of Pen Drive

There are many benefits of Pen Drive which are as follows-

1.Pen drives are very strong.

2.Pen drive is a compact design that makes it portable.

3.Pen drives can be used as bootable media.

4.Pen drives also cost less, depending on its size.

5.Pen drives do not break easily like CDs, DVDs, nor do they have bad data.

6.It has the capacity to store huge data from 64 MB to 128 GB.

7.You do not need to install any software to use the pen drive in the computer.

8.Pen drive is very easy to use and you can easily carry it from one place to another by putting it in your pocket.