In many ways, flash memory has become the darling of the storage industry. Not only do a huge variety of devices use flash for basic data storage, we're already seeing movement towards both SSDs ...

Amid falling prices and an inventory glut, yet another flash memory format is trying to rise above an increasingly crowded market. Panasonic's Secure Digital, which was co-developed with SanDisk and ...

Handheld computing leader Palm and electronics conglomerate Panasonic announced Tuesday that they would offer free Secure Digital media cards with the purchase of select products. The move is meant to ...

The top two flash-memory card makers are letting Sony handle the market for the new high-end XQD format--at least for now. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors ...

25 Years of CompactFlash: A Look Back at the Pioneering Format In 1994, we saw the debut of a pioneering format for flash memory products that could fit easily in devices like PDAs and digital cameras ...

Flash memory card formats continue to proliferate thanks to the announcement last week that Olympus and Fujifilm have jointly developed a new flash memory card format, called xD-Picture Card. They ...

Flash-memory card vendor SanDisk has announced a far smaller card, which targets camera-equipped cell phones and digital cameras. The fingernail-sized T-Flash card (11x15x1 mm) builds on the company's ...

In Defragging: Why, How, and Whether, I warned that defragging can wear out solid state drives. Howard Meyer asked if it was safe to format flash drives and memory cards. Regular defragging can wear ...

With over a dozen form factors, knowing what the best flash memory card and SSD technology is available can be daunting. https://assets.techrepublic.com/uploads/2019 ...