USB flash drives can work as extra RAM — here's how it works

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 ...
Law

No Expectation of Privacy for Employee's Flash Drive Attached to Work Computer

Can an employee bring a claim against an employer if the employer bases an employment-related decision on information obtained from a personal data storage device? On June 26, the Florida Third ...
eTeknix

Custom USB Drive Designed to Destroy a Computer

If you’re in the habit of picking up random USB flash drives and plugging them into your computer, now would be a good time to stop. The mischievous Dark Purple has built a custom USB drive designed ...
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I turned my old laptop’s SSD into the fastest USB drive I own

Putting the drive together takes about a minute. Most enclosures are tool-free; you slide the SSD into the M.2 slot, secure ...
Gizmodo

This Treacherous 220-Volt Flash Drive Can Fry Your Computer In Seconds

The last thing you ever want to do is connect a random flash drive you’ve found to your computer’s USB port. But a security researcher who goes by the nickname ‘Dark Purple’ has created an even more ...
Machine Design

5 Myths Surrounding USB Flash Drives

USB flash drives have replaced floppy and 3.5-in. discs as an easy way to move and back up data (just ask Edward Snowden). But since they’ve been introduced, like any new technology, they have been ...
USA Today

7 clever ways to use that USB drive again

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 ...
Computer Weekly

Flash prices drop towards spinning disk levels in 2023

Flash drive per-gigabyte (GB) prices have dropped by more than 10% since March 2023 to an average of $0.075/GB this week. That’s down from around $0.09 per gigabyte six months ago. At the same time, ...
TWCN Tech News

Best free USB Flash Drive Format Tool for PC

Here are the best free USB flash drive format tools for Windows 11/10 that you can use to format a USB or flash drive: USB Disk Storage Format Tool. Rufus. PenFormat EaseUS Partition Master Free ...
The Advocate

Ascension Parish school district to consider forbidding flash-drive computer devices on campus

DONALDSONVILLE — Flash-drive computer devices may be added to the list of items students would be forbidden from bringing to school under changes being proposed to the Ascension Parish student ...
The New Yorker

Object of Interest: The Flash Drive

When Daniel Ellsberg decided to copy the Pentagon Papers, in 1969, he secretly reproduced them, page by page, with a photocopier. The process of duplication was slow; every complete copy of the ...