How about never - is never good for you? As a long-time fan of flash (NAND) storage - and a flash notebook long-ago user - I've been repeatedly surprised at how the hype for flash drives and the ...

Notebooks need longer battery life I used a flash-disk based notebook for much of the '90s and loved its 10-hour battery life. You just have so much more freedom when ...

Bit rot and cheap NAND—why I actually trust USB thumb drives for my 3-2-1 backups ...

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, ...

Will the hard disk be made useless after it's forced to help flash memory destroy optical media? As flash encroaches on more of optical media's territory, I see it teaming up with hard disk drives to ...

While many of us have moved our entire lives to the cloud, flash drives continue to represent one of the most convenient physical ways to transport data. Whether it’s for local backup or to boot an ...

Most everyone has used a thumb drive to store data or transfer files, but are even smaller and more portable mini USB drives ...

Large among the current technology debates is whether or not flash memory will displace hard-disk drives (HDDs) as the foremost digital storage device. The hypothesis has received much attention from ...

February 23, 2007 It was just a month ago that we were reporting on the sudden jump in Solid State Disk (SSD) capacity with a 32 GB disk appearing nine months ago, then a 64 GB and a 128 GB drive ...

David Flynn is all grins when discussing the inevitable decimation of the storage industry. Newton's laws of motion enumerate how all things move in our universe, including the spinning magnetic discs ...

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 ...