flash memory

• Article | 10/08/2011 Study: Companies lose millions from missing memory sticks

  While data breaches by hackers get headlines, another form of data leakage can be very damaging to a company's bottom line, too. Most notably, that is...
• Article | 27/04/2011 Learn how to run programs from your flash drive

  Reader Patricia has a question: "Why can't application software be put on USB drives instead of [hard] disks?"
• Article | 18/08/2010 Intel, Micron announce higher-density flash memory

  Intel and Micron on Tuesday announced denser NAND flash memory, which could help reduce the space occupied by memory while increasing the storage capa...
• Article | 28/07/2010 SanDisk Launches its Smallest-Ever USB Flash Drive

  Memory maker SanDisk has ousted its latest USB flash drive, claiming it's the smallest that the company has ever released.
• Article | 10/07/2010 Celebrate a month of World Cup soccer with a flash drive

  An estimated one billion of us watched the FIFA World Cup soccer final this Sunday in which Spain proved victorious against the Netherlands (it was al...

• Article | 27/10/2010 Flash Drive 101: Copying files, removing viruses

  The other day, my wife asked me how to copy a PowerPoint presentation to a flash drive so she could take it with her to school. I was a little shocked...
• Article | 22/10/2010 Flash Drive 101: Protecting Your Drive from Viruses

  Flash drives are virus magnets. This is a generally accepted truth, but today I learned it firsthand.

• Article | 2/02/2010 Data warehousing vendors squabble over flash memory

  Scalability has been the buzzword for data warehousing vendors over the past several years, with the standout questions being, how many petabytes of d...
• Article | 10/07/2009 How to choose the right memory card

  With video, image and data files becoming larger thanks to better quality media, the importance of making sure you have adequate storage is only going...

Whitepapers about flash memory

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  Two May Be Better Than One: Why Hard Disk Drives and Flash Belong Together

  This white paper will explore the need for a caching and buffering technology between DRAM and HDDs and why Flash memory can be used to fill this need. We will go on to look at various ways that Flash and HDDs can be combined in a computer storage hierarchy. These technologies to combine Flash memory and HDDs include hybrid HDDs, Flash on the computer motherboard, and a combination of Flash and HDD storage devices in the same computer – paired storage systems.