See portable hard drive. (2) A small solid state storage ... rendered writable CDs and DVDs obsolete. See flash memory. USB drives are used for auxiliary storage and backup as well as data ...

The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from ... everyone would be using SSDs and hard-disk drives (HDDs) would be relegated to ...

The new 3D flash memory also ramps up density, with up to 332 memory layers, improving bit density by 59% over ...

(2) A storage module made of flash memory chips. Flash disks have no mechanical platters or access arms, but the term "disk" is used because the data are accessed as if they were on a hard drive.

Western Digital and new CEO Irving Tan will focus on the hard drive business, while Sandisk under CEO David Goeckeler will ...

This lifespan is often communicated to the consumer using various ratings by the manufacturer, or you can use third-party ...

Samsung's leadership in flash memory makes the FIT Plus a trustworthy drive to store your valuable data; It works through it all with a waterproof, shock-proof³, temperature-proof⁴, magnet ...

USB sticks or flash drives store data using NAND flash memory, in the form of binary values (zeros and ones) in memory cells. Interestingly, it is electrons trapped in a kind of “floating gate ...