Flash drives are a dying technology, according to the inventor of the USB device, Dov Moran. While they're useful devices for making data more mobile, cloud connectivity is starting to take its place.

Flash drives are convenient for making backups of files as well as copying data from one computer to another. These small memory devices are portable and only require ...

When you stop to think about it, flash drives are an incredible piece of technology. In 1956, the first computer with built-in storage became available in the form of IBM's 305 RAMAC. It weighed 2,000 ...

Solid-state drive (SSD) flash memory storage devices have accelerated laptops and server-based computing. As organisations embark on digital transformation and look to use techniques such as ...

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But wait! You may find the problem eases if you have some extra RAM to hand and you don't need to spend a fortune. By turning a USB flash drive into virtual RAM, you can reduce your reliance on an ...

The latest malicious software to spread to untold millions of computers goes by the names Downadup and Conficker. Computerworld’s Gregg Keizer calls its spread the “biggest attack in years”. One way ...

If you have to use a flash drive on both Macs and Windows PCs, make sure both systems can read it. Here's how to format the drive correctly. While there is a lot of interoperability between Apple's ...