A USB drive can support several different types of file formats, depending on your needs. Here's what those formats mean and ...

The articles about proliferating USB data storage devices in a variety of shapes prompted a fair amount of e-mail, including a pointer from one reader who gave me the URL for a sampler of, ah, ...

Unlike HDDs, SSDs use flash memory technology to store data electronically. SSDs have no moving parts, making them faster, ...

There's nothing more frustrating than your computer suddenly saying it can't recognize the USB device connected to the port. This is especially true when you're urgently trying to transfer a file to a ...

Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. in Memphis recently found itself dealing with a proliferation of user-owned plug-and-play USB port drives that posed a security risk to sensitive patient data. Lenny ...

The firmware included with the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B version 1.2 introduced the possibility of booting from a USB device: before that, it was only possible to boot from an SD or microSD card. But ...

I tried to reformat my USB drive with HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, but it says that there is no media in the specified device. It doesn’t even display total size and the free size of the USB. Then ...

Microsoft may be late adding USB storage support to the Xbox 360–Sony’s PlayStation 3 supported it off the block–but it’s finally live, for all you aspiring archivists. All you need to do is log into ...

The latest software update for the PlayStation 5 is live, and it gives players an option to store game data externally using a USB device. The PS5 update, which dropped Wednesday, April 14, includes a ...