Few facts about pen drives which you might have missed

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.

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 knoowblog as your valuable comment.