<b>commentary</b> The flash memory technology is inexpensive and ubiquitous, but it's also physically feeble. As it spreads up-market, pros and enthusiasts are stuck with its shortcomings. Stephen ...

Are you ready for yet another flash memory card format? No? Too bad, Pretec wants to add C-Flash to the already way, way too long list of flash memory card formats we have to worry about. (It's bad ...

Secure Digital High Capacity cards are a type of flash memory designed to contain between 4GB and 32GB of data. You can use an SDHC card to store and transport important business files between ...

Here are the best free USB flash drive format tools for Windows 11/10 that you can use to format a USB or flash drive: USB Disk Storage Format Tool. Rufus. PenFormat EaseUS Partition Master Free ...

Flash memory card formats continue to proliferate thanks to the announcement last week that Olympus and Fujifilm have jointly developed a new flash memory card format, called xD-Picture Card. They ...

In Defragging: Why, How, and Whether, I warned that defragging can wear out solid state drives. Howard Meyer asked if it was safe to format flash drives and memory cards. Regular defragging can wear ...

It's hard to imagine it now, but there was a time in the early 1990s when having a tiny palm-sized data storage card with no moving parts felt miraculous. Hard drives on PCs were noisy, bulky, and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Move over, compact discs. Something the size of a fingernail may offer the music industry a way to boost sales in retail stores as CD purchases continue to decline. The four major ...

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eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Those little blue flash cards that store photos and video ...