<b>commentary</b> The flash memory technology is inexpensive and ubiquitous, but it's also physically feeble. As it spreads up-market, pros and enthusiasts are stuck with its shortcomings. Stephen ...

Are you ready for yet another flash memory card format? No? Too bad, Pretec wants to add C-Flash to the already way, way too long list of flash memory card formats we have to worry about. (It's bad ...

A standards group hopes to develop a memory card format called UFS. It'll face some obstacles getting to market, but may succeed embedded in mobile phones. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

In Defragging: Why, How, and Whether, I warned that defragging can wear out solid state drives. Howard Meyer asked if it was safe to format flash drives and memory cards. Regular defragging can wear ...

There are numerous flash card formats. This section will give a brief overview of the predominant types. These two cards offer the same electrical interface, but have different form factors. The ...

It's hard to imagine it now, but there was a time in the early 1990s when having a tiny palm-sized data storage card with no moving parts felt miraculous. Hard drives on PCs were noisy, bulky, and ...

Micron Technology said it has joined the flash Multimedia Card Association, and will produce its own flash card for the first time sometime in the second half of 2002. Dave Eggleston, director of ...

It's hard to imagine it now, but there was a time in the early 1990s when having a tiny palm-sized data storage card with no moving parts felt miraculous. Hard drives on PCs were noisy, bulky, and ...

Not that anyone seems to be demanding yet another Flash memory card format, but SanDisk just took the wraps off of T-Flash, which is meant to be used with cellphones. The new format is just 11mm by ...