We all have the occasional Pendrive stored in a drawer and without giving it any use. However, you do not need to have them abandoned and that is why we are going to tell you what you can use those that you have saved and totally forgotten for. Many of the uses that we are going to show you will already be known by many, others will be less known to you and others, on the other hand, will be totally unknown to you. let’s see what things can be done with a USB Pendrive beyond saving data.
There is no doubt that Pendrives are the equivalent of floppy disks today, you can take them anywhere and we all have them on us to store data that we want to have close to us. However, we have commented more than once on some other application of these, such as the fact that be able to use them to restore the BIOS. Not to mention that many of us always have a Pendrive for Windows installation inside in case something goes wrong. However, there are other uses that you are not aware of.
What can I do with a USB Pendrive that I no longer use?
With the arrival of Pendrives under the USB-C interface, these are becoming fast enough to install several of our games and we are very clear that in the future, and especially with speeds such as those provided by USB 4.2, they are going to become a way to store our favorite titles. However, what we bring you in this case are things that you can do today with any USB Pendrive, regardless of its type.
And what can be done to store information? Well, you can do several different things and some of them will be extremely useful, such as:
- Install a Linux distribution and work with the penguin operating system when you need it. This is ideal for performing maintenance on any computer if Windows fails, forensic testing and even messing around with Linux if you want to learn how to use it and don’t want to harm the integrity of your hard drive because you’re a bit handy.
- You can install portable applications, these do not need to be installed on the PC and are extremely useful to be able to work from any computer. Ideal if you have a computer at home and in the office and you don’t want to carry a laptop or don’t have one available. Searching for certain well-known applications and the word Portable on the Internet, you will be able to find applications prepared for it, with the advantage of being able to use them immediately on the host PC.
- If you dedicate yourself to investing in cryptocurrencies you can use it as a cold wallet or cold wallet. Think of it as the equivalent of the savings book that your grandfather usually carries with him and where all the movements that you have been making until the last time you connected to the internet are recorded. The information will be stored in encrypted form. In the same way, other data can be stored under high security encryption to keep it safe.
Did you know these ways to use a USB Pendrive or can you think of any that we have not mentioned? Let us know.
