 A
while ago I was asked by a manufacturer if I was willing to test a pen
drive. Pen Drive I hear you say ? Let me explain: you should see a
Pen Drive as a removable hard
disk drive with USB
connection. Okay, so I know these things are the future but are they
really usable I figured ? So with that question in mind I agreed to review
the test sample. A few days later the post office drops of the package.
This really tiny pen-drive with USB interface made me smile, basically
it's a flashable memory with an USB connector. Once again I figured, oh
yes this will be the future. And although today they can only hold up-to
512 MB (the 1 GB version is already slowly becoming available) and get
this .. a 5 Gigabyte version will be available by fall this year. You can
notice that storage capacity is now steadily growing towards acceptable
sizes, we are not quite there yet though.
Think of this ... tiny and small as a let's
say good sized yellow marker, it only weighs a couple of gram's, connects
to the USB port and works on any PC
with an USB port. Imagine this product a few years from now, I mean let's
face it with the rapid technology advancement/growth in a year of five
we'll have multiple gigabyte sized pendrives. Now compare that with your
Hard-Drive .. that noisy bugger which produces a lot of heat.
What is it?
Accessing and transporting data has never been easier with the Pen Drive.
Now, we will be testing the 256 MB
version. I hear you, that's not much Hilbert. I agree, but it still beats
the crap out of a floppy-drive isn't it
? This pendrive can hold 256MB, that's 177 floppies people.
You run off to your friends or business
relationship you got a few documents you'd like to share, think of the
possibilities here. pump the bugger with some MP3's or even video-files
and take them along.
What's so convenient is that
the pen drive has an USB connection and practically any reasonable modern
PC has an USB port. Any Windows Operating System newer than Windows ME or
even Windows 98 Second Edition (not 100% sure though) will automatically
recognize a pen-drive once inserted into the USB port.
It's easy as 1-2-3, you
insert the pen drive into the USB port and two seconds later windows added
another drive into windows. You can now Now you can
read, write, copy, delete and move data from your hard disk drive to the
Pen Drive or from the Pen Drive to your hard disk drive. |
