Pen drives the latest miracle of technology has taken the world by a storm. The number of pen drives sold every day is simply mind boggling and have surpassed all estimates. This was one neat invention of a portable device used for storage of digital information in a tiny package called the pen drive. The pen drive is capable of swapping information, exchanging music and photos, computer data all of this with a mini device which looks like a pen. This pen drive can be easily carried in you packet, need no special precautions and is quite sturdy. A marvel of technology – the Pen Drive

The pen drive is a personal device which you use every where. At home, at work, with your friend, at a cyber café and where not? The pen drive is omni present. With its small size and enormous capacity, it has made a lot of your equipments obsolete. You portable cassette player, your camera, your recording instrument, your Dictaphone, your floppies, zip disks and cd roms, all have been relegated to the dustbin wit the advent to this swill army knife which packs a punch in its small package.

The pen drives are the best option for personal backup at the least cost. These drives are suitable for moving songs, videos, data files; documents form one compute to another with extreme ease. Just imagine carrying 80GB of data in your pocket. Just think how many floppies would your require to take that backup of 80 GB and how that much data sits in you shirt pocket in you pen drive.

Pen drives have taken a lot of avatars. Manufacturers have made pen drive in the shape of key chains, animals, sushi, cartoon characters and what not. The internals of all the pen drives are the same. Now with newer technologies the pen drives have come up with LCD display built in for browsing the available files. Soon thy will have color OLED base display with will play videos files directly from the pen drive with out the use of a computer just like the video iPod.