With just a few hours before Black Friday kicks in, I've updated all prices and stock availability where necessary. USB flash drives (also known as pen drives, memory sticks or thumb drives) are, like ...

★★★★☆ Add a terabyte of storage to your older MacBook with this affordable SSD. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac Sandisk gives its new Extreme Fit USB-C Flash Drive the crown as “the world’s smallest 1TB ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Technically, you should assume that data is never truly removed from a hard drive. That's because, for the most part, when you delete a file ...

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TweakTown may also earn commissions from other affiliate partners at no extra cost to you. TL;DR: SanDisk's Extreme Fit USB-C flash drives ...

When you are in the market for external storage solutions, two of the most common options you'll find are USB flash drives and external hard drives. Despite the difference in their names, both use the ...

Plug in the USB drive you want to format, and open File Explorer. Identify the exact drive name of the USB drive. Make sure not to make any mistakes here. If you use an incorrect drive letter, you ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Memory brand PNY Technologies has begun shipping its new USB Type-C series of flash drives with write speeds as high as 1,000MB/s and capacities up to 2TB. In a world where USB thumb drives still seem ...

Copying, moving, or deleting files on a USB drive is usually straightforward. However, this may not be the case if the USB drive you're using is write-protected. As the name suggests, write protection ...

Many gamers want a simple, portable way to play retro games anywhere. Some invest in handheld gaming devices, while others build Raspberry Pi setups. However, there's an even easier solution—turning a ...

Given that they're mechanical drives, it's not like the bus isn't going to be sitting there just idling most of the time anyway; it will send a block of data to a drive until the disk's cache is full ...

Most external hard drives come formatted with the FAT file system, which makes the drive compatible with multiple operating systems. As such, the drive is immediately usable out of the box. If you ...