How To: Maintain an Advanced Pen Drive / Flash Drive

Flash Drive / Pen drive have replaced the traditional floppy drives, CDs since last 5 years due to it’s easiness of use and reliability. Definitely, flash drive/ USB disks are the best place to store data and a collection of cool apps.

The first pen drive that I used was manufactured by HP- the IT Giant. It was considerably having a cool memory of 128 mb (as far as the standards of 2003-4 are concerned).  You see, technology arrives in India with a huge delay.. :(

Well, coming back to the point, just having a decade of Gigabytes as storage on pen drive / portable usb hard drives doesn’t make it cool enough.

If you using a portable hdd of 80-320 gb, then your hdd should contain the best of applications for emergency usages and recovery purposes.

For your very kind information, I must not forget to state that, there are numerous productivity applications available that let you encrypt the data in USB drives with a password.. ;O and there are tonnes more of applications which can be easily downloaded into your pen drive, and you can use the portable applications any where, without even installing it. You just have to plug in your pen drive and directly click the application.

Most of the manufacturers provide you with a USB Flash drive management software through which you can fortify your pen drive with a gigantic password and be secured. Also they have options to format it or change the label.

You can download thousands of Portable Application from PortableApps.com.

Right from an antivirus to a file transfer protocol application, each and every sort of application has been made portable for your convenience.

Furthermore, software architect and IDE softwares such as Dreamweaver, Flash, etc also have their portable version available for download.

This makes it easy for you to make use of these software without the need to install them.

The advantage of using a portable browser is that, you can save the settings and when you are on a new computer, you’ll be still able to use your pre-loaded settings.

Such minor tricks and tips make it easy for us to maintain a high dignity of the pendrive.

Your pen drive can also act as a lock for your computer..

Now imagine of everything that you can do with your fully loaded “Pen Drive”.

You plug in your mighty flash drive and the computer will be loaded with tonnes of productive and creative applications that’ll save hours of installation.

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