Pen Drives

There's a new thing called a pen drive and it's not much bigger than a keychain but it can hold upwards of 256 MB and 512 MB and I'm sure there are (or will be) some that will hold over one gigabyte of information. So instead of carting around thousands of 3.5" floppy disks you can wear these pen drives around your neck (the one I purchased actually came with a laynard) and they just plug into an empty USB port on your computer or notebook. Now, of course these aren't cheap. The 256 MB pen drive I purchased cost about $60, but there was a mail-in rebate, so I got the pen drive for about what an external 3.5" floppy drive would have cost me!!!

Now that I think about it, I think someone else has blogged about pen drives. These are definitely a new wave that is very practical.