Think about your desk in your office — your desktop and drawers are likely littered with USB flash drives. They are given out at conferences and trade shows, and they are now a ubiquitous staple of ...

Flash memory is inside your smartphone, GPS, MP3 player, digital camera, PC and the USB drive on your key chain. Solid-state drives (SSD) using flash memory are replacing hard drives in netbooks and ...

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › The speed and storage capacity of flash memory has absolutely exploded in recent years, ...

If there's one iconic thing in the long, storied history of consumer electronics, it's Maxell's "blown away guy." While the company doesn't run commercials featuring him any longer, he's still hanging ...

With the introduction of hybrid flash drives and these solutions seemingly becoming more popular as time passes, it was only fitting that we would at some point see a solution come through from ...

Most USB 2.0 flash drives look the same, but that doesn’t mean they perform the same. Differences in the type of memory and, to a lesser extent, the type of I/O controllers used by USB drives can make ...

For example, the SK Hynix Tube T31 hides a proper M.2 NVMe SSD with a DRAM cache inside its body and delivers an average ...

The main problem with hard drives is wear and tear on the moving parts. Eventually, all mechanical parts will wear out and ...

USB flash drives have replaced floppy and 3.5-in. discs as an easy way to move and back up data (just ask Edward Snowden). But since they’ve been introduced, like any new technology, they have been ...

External drives like USB drives are extremely helpful for copying files to and fro a PC or a laptop. You can then transfer these files and use them on any device or carry them even when you are ...

(1) An external storage or optical disc drive that plugs into the USB port. See portable hard drive. (2) A small solid state storage module that plugs into the computer's USB port. Emerging just ...