When was the last time you used a USB flash drive? I had to think for a moment myself — and to be honest, I can’t remember ...

USB sticks still have niche uses, but portable SSDs, SD cards, HDDs, and cloud storage now offer faster, safer, and smarter ...

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 It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function.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 ...

Even though the USB Type-C connector specification was released more than a year ago, you’ll still be hard pressed to find smartphones or laptops with compatible ports. While USB Type-C compatible ...

A USB extension cable enables convenient access to USB thumb drives even when your computer's USB port is tightly cluttered with other devices or reside in an inconvenient location. The USB cable ...

So yesterday, the TUAW backchannel got into a heated discussion about USB thumb drives. We had just posted about why Lion Version support was not available on non-HFS+ file systems. Our debate wasn't ...

USB thumb drives are really cheap–so cheap, in fact, that many of us have quite a few of these sticks lying around unused, because they don’t have much capacity. (Ask anyone who’s ever been to a tech ...

The firmware in such devices is unprotected and can be easily overwritten by malware, researchers from Security Research Labs said Most USB devices have a fundamental security weakness that can be ...

Thumb drives are usually relatively fast when connected to a your Mac, and will mount in a few seconds and be accessible from the Desktop or Finder side-bar. This should happen as long as the format ...

Porteus is a portable distro designed and optimized to run from removable media such as a USB flash drive, SD card or even ...

All modern systems should offer the ability to boot from a USB drive, barring some corporate PCs that may have security measures in place to prevent it. Should you have problems booting from a USB ...