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 ...

Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...

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 ...

USB flash drives are an efficient way to physically move data between devices, but aren't ideal for backing up vital data because the devices have a substantial chance of getting broken or failing.

Think about your desk in your office — your desktop and drawers are likely littered with USB flash drives. They are given out at conferences and trade shows, and they are now a ubiquitous staple of ...

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 ...

Thumb drives used to be so cool. They came in every shape and material, from little plastic rectangles to rubber wristbands, novelty animals, and pens sporting a built-in USB-drive. We used to marvel ...

Some people call it a pen drive or a jump drive. Others call it a thumb drive, a keychain drive, or even a memory stick, but we just call it a USB Flash drive (UFD). We speculated in our Flash drive ...

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 ...

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 ...