Keep apps and settings on a USB to run anywhere without installs or admin rights. Portable apps leave no trace, but you should pair them with encryption for real privacy. Store a portable app manager, ...

To anyone who asks me – and there are a lot of people – my advice for file security is always the same: Scan your important documents, shred the originals you don’t physically need anymore, and store ...

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You probably haven’t heard of this particular threat actor before; I can’t say that I had to be honest, and I spent my entire life immersed in threat intelligence. Maybe it’s time to wake up and smell ...

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 ...

After transferring your videos and photos to an external storage device, you can confidently remove them from Google Photos without worrying about permanent loss. As the title suggests, leveraging an ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The simplest cross-platform solution when you have to move data from your iPhone to a non-Apple device is still a USB flash drive. It works ...

So I get some of the basic differences between a USB flash drive's controller and an SSD controller, like mentioned here https://superuser.com/questions/919...l ...

If you’re looking for a simple, no-frills way to store and transfer files, a flash drive might be your best bet. With this four-in-one flash drive, you can just plug it into your computer. And even ...