It is difficult to find optical drives on computers. A DVD drive requires too much energy and is heavy. One company is investigating what can be done to replace the optical drives. Let’s face facts: ...

The main problem with hard drives is wear and tear on the moving parts. Eventually, all mechanical parts will wear out and ...

Flash drive per-gigabyte (GB) prices have dropped by more than 10% since March 2023 to an average of $0.075/GB this week. That’s down from around $0.09 per gigabyte six months ago. At the same time, ...

It has been around for a while. And runs on the most popular phone and tablet in the world, And yet, Apple’s iOS does not always play nice with other operating systems. We have lost count of the ...

Solid-state drive (SSD) prices per gigabyte (GB) have headed sharply upwards over the past two quarters. Meanwhile, on the spinning disk front, SAS hard disk drive (HDD) prices increased in price and ...

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 ...

I like to have a handful of cheap flash drives lying around for boot media, firmware updates, etc. 32 GB is more than enough capacity usually. Unfortunately, the ones I've bought lately have been ...

KIOXIA America (formerly Toshiba Memory America) has announced what it calls Software-Enabled Flash (SEF), a new technology that adds software flexibility, host control and flash-native semantics into ...

External drives like USB drives are extremely helpful for copying files to and fro a PC or a laptop. You can then transfer these files and use them on any device or carry them even when you are ...