Modern SSDs are an engineering wonder. They're extremely fast and very reliable, despite being housed next to massive heat-belching graphics cards in gaming PCs. But like all silicon-based chips, they ...

From enterprise flash to experimental archival media, these are ten technologies looking to replace traditional hard drives..

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 was the last time you used a USB flash drive? I had to think for a moment myself — and to be honest, I can’t remember exactly. For years, the USB stick was the device of choice when it came to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This is my third and last blog on digital storage and memory projections for 2024. The last two articles focused on digital ...

The past 12 months saw flash storage nudge into areas from which it had hitherto been absent. In particular, this was because of the availability of denser – and therefore cheaper per-gigabyte (GB) – ...

As the replacement for the venerable floppy disk, USB flash memory drives are one of the few areas of IT that have a pronounced sense of humor. Thumb drives have dressed in the guise of rubber duckies ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Solid-state storage is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, doing away with bulky hard drives and allowing us to ...

TL;DR: PNY's new Ultra-Fast PRO Elite V3 flash drives offer read speeds up to 1,000 MB/sec and write speeds up to 800 MB/sec, thanks to USB Type-C and USB 3.2 Gen 2 interfaces. Available in 256GB to ...

Solid-state disk (SSD) has grabbed a lot of attention lately, but analysts say it’s still a niche technology that is specialized, high-priced and far from ready to supplant the bedrock that is hard ...