The industry for computer add-on accessories is witnessing a heavy competition these days. Of all these accessories, USB flash drive or pen drive tops the charts. While doing a market survey, you may come across a premium bouquet of competitive USB drive products that include:
- Customized USB Pen Drives
- USB Key Drives
- Fingerprint USB Drives
- Fingerprint Sensor USB Drives
- External Hard Disk Drive etc.
Background of USB Pen Drives
When these USB flash drives came into existence in the year 2000, these had a maximum data storage capacity of 8MB. That was an IBM product. Later, the storage capacity was upgraded to 64MB, 128MB, 256MB and soon to 512MB. But with growing technology, the USBs stepped in advanced version – from USB 1.1 to USB 2.0.
Today, you may easily find USB drives / pen drives with memory ranging from 2GB to 64GB at very cost effective rates. Recently, Kingston has launched several USB drives with data storage capacity up to 128GB or 256GB. USB 3.0 is the latest addition to the space.
Market Scenario of USB Pen Drives
The market is so highly affected that everyday a company launches an advanced USB drive that has something or the other better than the older version. Products are well compatible with all the middle age or latest computers / laptops and almost all kinds of operating systems (including Mac OS X and Linux platforms).
On the same hand, these competitive USB flash drives and other products seem to be better than the optical media items in terms of memory space, data transfer speed, cost effectiveness and portability. Otherwise, those optical media devices could be easily damaged & information / data could be lost. These latest USB drives do not even consume more power.
From music and movies to photographs and documents – every information type is getting digital day by day. This heavy data needs to be carried all the time with us. To serve the purpose, USB flash drives are incomparable. Most of the times, these serve as your portable computer.
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