Q: How do flash drives work? What does the manufacturer have inside to make this a permanent (and rewriteable) memory? Do they use transistors ...

How does flash work? Flash stores an electrical charge in a quantum well in a floating gate transistor. The floating gate name comes from the fact that the normal transistor gate is isolated from ...

The lifespan of data on a USB flash drive depends on many factors: Under ideal conditions, data should remain preserved on a high-quality USB stick for at least 10 years or even longer. But what ...

Solid-state storage is remarkably versatile, making SSDs and flash drives reliable and cost-effective, especially compared to the hard drives that preceded them.

QLC is a type of flash that promises to enable big, cheap flash drives and SSDs, but it comes with some serious drawbacks. QLC stores four bits of data in each cell, up from 3 in TLC (most SSDs ...

Solid-state storage is remarkably versatile, making SSDs and flash drives reliable and cost-effective, especially compared to the hard drives that preceded them.