USB pen drive is the best among the removable storage devices for its portable and easy to use features. Flash drives are small but solid devices as they come in highly durable designs nowadays. Their higher capacities when compared with floppy drive, CD or ZIP drives make them ideal for transporting large files. As they use advanced NAND flash technology, they are faster than other storage devices. Since there are no movable parts inside flash drives, they are quite suitable for causal use and less prone to damage or such problems. What’s more, they do not require power and their prices are affordable too.

                                                                                                                             

Flash drives are truly versatile as they have multiple uses and can be used by employees, students and network administrators.

 

Here are the some of the uses of USB Flash drives:

Backing up and transporting of your personal files

Nowadays, most PC users choose USB Pen drives against CD or floppy drive or ZIP drive for storing their files, documents, videos, music albums, photos, pictures. As the prices of USB drives have become affordable, the number of Pen drive users is increasing. The high capacities of the latest pen drives help the users to store large files in a compact pen drive and take it to any place they like.

USB flash drives as bootable device

Operating systems like Firefox have introduced bootable software for flash drives so you can boot your system using your flash drive. You can also boot your system with your flash drive using LiveUSB.

 

Windows Vista has also introduced ReadyBoost to help the users to enhance the system memory using certain flash drives.

Running applications from flash drives

A few software applications can be run from your flash drive instead of installing and running from your hard drive. SanDisk has developed U3 which supports the running of many software running from your flash drive.

Used to run PC repair kit

As the latest antivirus and other PC repair kit need higher capacity than a CD, flash drives have become ideal for storing and running these software during the system crash or data recovery in a host PC.

 

Used in Audio players and for storage of music files

Recently, flash drives are used audio players and music storage devices like iPod for better storage and superior sound output.

Computer games

Certain arcade games, use flash drives for their faster read and write features. However, Linux based flash drives are used for playing these games.

 

In schools and other educational institutions

Students and researchers can store lots of information like research data, home work and school work in their USB pen drives. Since flash drives are compact, easy to transport and can be used in any computer environment, they are very useful in the area of education and research.