Flash drives spent a good amount of time as the number one way to take your files with you wherever you needed to go. As some of that has changed with Android devices and cloud storage, many of us ...

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 ...

Every year, USB flash drives get cheaper and hold more data. Unfortunately, they don’t always get faster. The reality is, many USB 3.0 flash drives aren’t noticeably faster than their USB 2.0 cousins, ...

Bit rot and cheap NAND—why I actually trust USB thumb drives for my 3-2-1 backups ...

With the convenience of cloud storage, USB flash drives might seem like old news, but the best are portable, fast, near-indestructible, and offer tons of space—enough that they’re worth having. This ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Although cloud storage services and wireless local data transfers have reduced some of the reliance on flash drives, they are still ...