The alphabet begins with the letter A, but the first drive on a reasonably up-to-date Windows computer is labeled “C:”. Why ...

The subject of who first invented the USB flash drive is contested. Pua Khein-Seng of Malaysia claims credit over the title and locals reportedly recognized him as the "father of the pendrive ...

When USB drives first arrived, vendors used CD-ROM ratings whereby each "x" equaled 150KB per second. For example, a 90x drive meant 13.5MB/sec (90 x 150KB). See CD-ROM drives and solid state.

Perhaps, not widely known by PC users, there is an option to boot from a USB drive within a running Windows OS installation. If Fast Boot is enabled in UEFI/BIOS, you may not be able to boot from ...

When buying a USB flash drive, you’ll want to focus on storage first. If you have a large number of files, videos, or songs you want to carry around with you, getting a USB drive with at least ...

The first thing you need to make sure, before concluding that something is wrong with your USB Drive, is if it’s write-protected. To clear the USB write-protection, we are going to use the ...

External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to quickly back up your important files, as well as store any data that you don’t need on your ...