USB flash drives are a cheap and convenient storage medium, but for a variety of reasons, are far from ideal for storing ...

Data retention is a funny thing. Atmel will gladly tell you that the flash memory in an ATmega32A will retain its data for 100 years at room temperature. Microchip says its EEPROMs will retain data ...

That drawer full of old USB drives may look useful, but think twice before reusing them, as some tasks become far riskier ...

The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from memory cards for portable devices to storage for desktops and laptops, the data storage ...

The technology behind SD cards is based on flash memory, which retains information securely even without a power supply. Nevertheless, even this technology has its limits. The electrical charges ...

What is NAND flash memory? NAND flash is a type of nonvolatile memory that is accessed like a mass storage device (e.g., a hard drive). A form of electronically erasable programmable readonly memory ...

Real-time as well as store & forward on-board processing applications are increasingly requiring larger amounts of fast on-board storage, and the choice of memory technology has a major impact on ...