USB flash drives are being replaced by Portable SSDs, high-capacity SD cards, and Cloud Storage. Compare speeds, costs, and the best picks for 2026.

It’s getting harder to remember the last time a thumb drive actually solved a problem. For years, that little stick felt like magic for quick hand-offs between computers. Now file sizes balloon, ports ...

As digital files grow larger—think 4K footage, game libraries, and complex project files—the need for ultra-high-capacity USB drives has become more common. We already have 1TB and 2TB USB drives ...

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 ...

A B.Tech (Computer Science) engineer turned writer, Varun has over 7 years of experience in tech journalism. He started his journey by writing for various publications like Beebom and Mr. Phone, ...

One thing that puzzles me about data storage, is how slow the average USB thumb drive is. When you consider that thumb drives and SSDs use the same solid-state technology, why are so many thumb drives ...

Corsair’s Flash Survivor Stealth SSD marries a USB stick with 10Gbps/NVMe speed, then weatherproofs and ruggedizes the whole deal. We like it. The Corsair Survivor Stealth might appear to be a ...

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 ...

Whether you're using a USB flash drive for file storage or other reasons, you might notice it getting surprisingly warm and sometimes even hot to the touch. A flash drive stores data on a silicon chip ...

If your younger kids need to back up or transport stored data, there’s no more enticing or entertaining way to do it than with SanDisk’s Crayola flash drive. But writes are slow, then painfully so ...