Storage drives come in all shapes and sizes. They come in bricks and candy bar-style shapes similar to phones; they come in rugged, credit card-sized forms; and they come as portable thumb drives.

USB flash drives are fading as SSDs, cloud storage, and SD cards deliver faster speeds and greater flexibility.

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 ...

Thumb drives come in all shapes and sizes. They are not all created equal. However, the new PNY PRO Elite V3 USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB drives offer read speeds of up to 1,000MB/s and write speeds of 800MB/s.

For everyday write operations, this versatile (Type-A/C) thumb drive SSD delivers the goods. But it’s slow as molasses (on a very cold day!) when it runs out of secondary cache. I’ve seen quite a few ...