Using a pen drive is just like using a swill army knife which has multiple uses all packed into one single small pack. You need to just attach your pen drive to any computer systems which has the USB port and your pen drive gets detected and becomes a part of your computer system. It is a plug n play system recognized by almost all the modern computer including the Unix boxes. These portable and quite reliable drives are fully solid state and contain no moving parts as such a fall or a shock does not affect them. They are not prone to failures like the floppies and the compact disks which did not work when we required them the most.

Pen drive with mp3 playback option has given us freedom form the portable cassette player and the IPod which is a huge version of the pen drive. The pen drives with camera options have given us freedom from the use of low end cameras and the ones with recording facility had feed us from Dictaphones. The pen drive has indeed revolutionized the way we work and also the manner in which we work.

Pen drives help us to carry our work to our home and carry all our important documents in our shirt pocket wherever we move. These pen drives are immune to dust, fungus and shocks which were the chief culprits in destroying the floppies. The innumerable times as pen drives can be written on to make it a slower version of your hard disk. You can store pictures, songs, documents and all sorts of files which you need to carry around.

Some of the modern Pen drives have cryptographic partitions allowing the use for the pen drives as security tokens for storage of digital signatures as well as authorizations devices used for logins on high security computers and systems.