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

USB flash drives are a cheap and convenient storage medium, but for a variety of reasons, are far from ideal for storing ...

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, ...

Sometime before the end of this year, it will be possible to get a petabyte of raw flash storage capacity that fits within a 3U rack enclosure, and if current trends persist, such a device will cost ...

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 you don't need to worry about ...

Why Zip disks and LS-120s couldn't defeat the 1.44MB disk ...

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 ...

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 ...

A quarter of new laptops and half of new desktop PCs will adopt an emerging data storage method by 2016, pairing flash memory with traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) for better overall performance, ...

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 ...