Every year, there are a few sale events that we simply cannot wait for—namely, Amazon’s Prime Day and Black Friday. Well, with October Prime Day now here (Amazon calls it “Prime Big Deal Days”), we’re ...

The SanDisk ExtremeFit USB-C flash drive (512GB) is on sale for $99 for Amazon Prime Day. That's $20 off the regular price of ...

One thing that puzzles me about data storage, is how slow the average USB thumb drive is. When you consider that thumb drives and SSDs use the same solid-state technology, why are so many thumb drives ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2018. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. I was given a cute ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Drives come in all shapes and sizes. They come in bricks and candybar-style shapes like phones, they come in rugged, credit card-sized forms, ...

Despite the popularity of AirDrop, cloud services and email, the most convenient way to share files is sometimes with a thumb drive. See how to format a drive to work with Windows PCs and Macs.

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Today’s slim, svelte computers look great. You, on the other hand, look like a total yutz fumbling around to plug a thumb drive into a USB port that’s somehow perpetually upside down. What if saving ...

Is this normal for older flash thumb drives? It's not like I write huge amounts of data to them every day or every week, but when I do, it's something like 6 MB/sec and often dozens of seconds where ...

Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, FactSet ; Chart: Matt Phillips/Axios Flash drive prices have exploded, ending a decades-long deflation in the ubiquitous devices often referred to as thumb ...

SanDisk Ultra Fit mini drive plugged into USB port on side of laptop - SanDisk/Amazon Drives come in all shapes and sizes. They come in bricks and candybar-style shapes like phones, they come in ...