When you are in the market for external storage solutions, two of the most common options you'll find are USB flash drives and external hard drives. Despite the difference in their names, both use the ...

When Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Nano on September 7, he predicted that it would be the best-selling iPod model ever. That is a strong statement, considering that the Nano is ...

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

Flash memory and hard disk drives could face a challenge from a new chip technology, dubbed phase-change memory, being developed by a group of companies led by IBM. The companies on Monday announced ...

Data is omnipresent. It’s stored on different devices — traditionally on a desktop PC, but now perhaps even more importantly on a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet. Even though data and ...

That drawer full of old USB drives may look useful, but think twice before reusing them, as some tasks become far riskier ...

The flash storage industry has evolved in the past couple of years even as the spinning hard disk industry continues to shrink. Dublin, Ireland-based research firm Research and Markets this year ...