Things to consider before buying the best flash drives. When shopping for a memory stick, the quality (and price) will depend on a few key features including storage capacity, speed, and encryption.

PrimoCache delivers noticeable speed improvements on systems with ample RAM and slower drives that frequently read and write ...

It’s simple to use: Just plug the little “memory stick” into your computer’s USB port and you can easily move files back and forth as if it were a hard drive on your computer.

Wait for your computer to copy them to the memory stick. Right-click your USB drive, and click "Eject." Remove your memory stick from your computer. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad.

The USB memory stick test only offers a USB 2.0 connection, which has a maximum transfer rate of just 60 MB/s, whereas the HDD was in a SATA 3.3 port, capable of 10 times more throughput.

Right-click the USB memory stick's drive letter and select "Format." Click the "File System" drop-down menu and select "NTFS" or "exFAT." If you do not need support for file sizes greater than 4GB ...

The fate of the removable flash memory market has been and will continue to be tied to digital cameras and cell phones, which have taken off and are expected to grow.

The highly unusual dimension to this case is that the non-encrypted memory stick had only been used after an employee “encountered problems” using the encrypted one handed out by the Council.

Intel Optane Memory for PCs looks like the average M.2 gumstick and in fact plugs into an M.2 slot on Intel 200 series chipset motherboards (7th gen Kaby Lake or newer). However, it’s designed ...