What is Pen Drive:

   A pen drive, or a USB streak drive, is a compact information storage device. Pen drives have take place of the floppy drives of old and have become the most well known information storage device among clients. 

  

·  Smaller scale, lightweight and convenient, a pen drive can be handily conveyed here and there by understudies, experts, academicians and autonomous tech specialists. Presently accessible pen drives with capacity limits extending from 2 GB and 64 GB can be utilized to store designs substantial records, photographs, music documents and video cuts. 

         

·  USB streak drive - otherwise called a USB stick, USB thumb drive or pen drive - is a fitting and-play convenient capacity device that utilizations streak memory and is sufficiently lightweight to join to a key chain. 

        

·  A USB streak drive can be utilized instead of a reduced circle. At the point when a client connects the blaze memory device to the USB port, the PC's working framework (OS) perceives the gadget as a removable drive.

Pen Drive also known as USB flash drive it is a portable device which means it can be easily transferred from one location to another due to its compact design it looks sort of a pen shape and thus it's named as pen drive.

It is utilized in a good home in the planet they need easily replaced CD’s, diskette thanks to its huge data storing capacity and faster data transferring speed.

Pen drives is connected to USB, Port which is available on computer mother boards they are used without any additional power supply they receive the power directly from the USB port itself and hence are playing dominant role within the PC world.

Pen drives comes in huge data storage capacity from 2 GB to128 GB.

The USB Memory Stick comes with different features embedded in it such as built-in camera, built-in audio and video playing applications. These devices enable users to transfer data from one computer to another with ease with no data loss.

It don't require any additional drives or software and hardware or application to run them they're easily connected to USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 of desktops, laptops, palmtops

Advantages of pen drives & USB Flash Drives:

As everyone knows how pen drives and USB flash drives are ruling the IT World due to its some brilliant features; it's replaced the traditional devices which were used for data storage medium. 

Some advantages of pen drive and flash drives are:

• Pen drives are available of huge data storing capacity from 64 mb to 128 Gb.

• It consists of compact designs which make them portable.

• They are used as bootable medium also.

• They have a faster data transferring rate. 

• It can hold or store data almost permanent memory and also called as secondary storage devices.

Disadvantages of pen drives & USB Flash Drives:

• Pen drives and USB Flash drives are so small so they can be easily misplaced.

• They are commonly used for spreading Computer viruses and can easily infect.

• Pen drive don’t have high storage capacity like hard disk