There is a small object that we daily use for transfer important data for here to there, viceversa. Do any one think that how this small object get famous with time going, ya answer is no one but now a day's it used freequently. Friend, now am decide to give you little introduce with this famous object called pendrive.
Easily accessible and common for all, the pen drives make wonderful accessories as computer hardware and have many advantages for their use but no one hope that this tiny device famous rapidly.
After the advent of pen drive it has been more easier to carry files around in an easy and flexible manner. Even the latest DVD players, Over head projectors are supporting an USB port. This technology has almost all revolutionized the tech world from low capacity floppy dives to a simple plug and play 256 GB drives. Some of its interesting facts are given below Know them and share with your friends.
-World’s first Pen drive was called as Thumb drive and it was manufactured by Trek in the year 2000.
-Trek Technology, Netac Technology, M-Systems and Phison Electronics were the four companies which were claiming to be the inventors of USB drives. But both Trek and Netacwon were able to get patents for USB drives.
-Commercially Trek technology and IBM were the first sellers of USB in the market. Trek called it thumb drive where as IBM called it DiskOnKey.
-DiskOnKey was manufactured by M-Systems and they were released into market on 15th December 2000.
-There are three generations for pen drives 2.0 is the most sucessfull era but now 3.0 has already taken its root with still faster read and write speeds.
-Nowadays Pen drives are also being designed for iPads and iPhones too. AirStash is the first usb flash drive for ipad and iphone.
-4GB pen drives were the most sold memory capacity of all times. Even most number of models are being manufactured in 4GB.
-Commercially Trek technology and IBM were the first sellers of USB in the market. Trek called it thumb drive where as IBM called it DiskOnKey.
-DiskOnKey was manufactured by M-Systems and they were released into market on 15th December 2000.
-There are three generations for pen drives 2.0 is the most sucessfull era but now 3.0 has already taken its root with still faster read and write speeds.
-Nowadays Pen drives are also being designed for iPads and iPhones too. AirStash is the first usb flash drive for ipad and iphone.
-4GB pen drives were the most sold memory capacity of all times. Even most number of models are being manufactured in 4GB.
Below is a list of some pen drives which had made some unique stand among most number of models released.
World’s Smallest Pen drive:
EagleTec USB Nano Flash Drive
Manufacturer: EagleTec
Dimensions: This Pen drive is 19 x 15 x 6mm (approx.)
EagleTec USB Nano Flash Drive
World’s Most expensive Pen drive:
White Lake USB Memory Golden Stick
Manufacturer: White Lake
Cost: US$ 3,550
Specifications: This Pen drive is made up of 14 carat gold with 5 diamonds embedded in it.
White Lake USB Memory Golden Stick
World's Largest capacity Pen Drive:
DataTraveler USB Flash Drive
Manufacturer: Kingston Technology
Capacity: 256 GB
DataTraveler USB Flash Drive
World’s fastest (USB 2.0) Pen drive:
Corsair Flash Voyager GT
Manufacturer: Corsair
Read Write Speed: Up to 30MB/s read, and 16MB/s write
Corsair Flash Voyager GT
Worlds fastest and Smallest USB 3.0 Pen drive:
Intelligent Drive U819V
Manufacturer: PQI
Speed: 5 Gbps/sec
Intelligent Drive U819V
World’s Light weight and thinnest pen drive:
MoserBaer super-slim USB flash drive
Manufacturer: MoserBaer
Dimensions: 29.4 x 12.4 x 2.3mm
Weight: 1.3g
MoserBaer super-slim USB flash drive
Pen Drive with Highest Number of years as Warranty:
Corsair Flash Voyager
Manufacturer: Corsair
Warranty: 10 Years
Corsair Flash Voyager
Their are few companies which even give life time warranty but the above mentioned company gives a printed number for years of warranty. so amazing isn't it to know few of the facts of pen drives. If you feel I have missed any thing or if you know any interesting facts about pen drives just share it with ignouist for you | open source as your valuable comment.
