Thumb drives used to be so cool. They came in every shape and material, from little plastic rectangles to rubber wristbands, novelty animals, and pens sporting a built-in USB-drive. We used to ...

With the increase in the use of small, large capacity USB drives, the potential for sensitive data to be lost or stolen has become a serious threat. How can you protect SUNY Cortland data from loss, ...

If you have to use a flash drive on both Macs and Windows PCs, make sure both systems can read it. Here's how to format the drive correctly.

Last year, I posted about creating a standalone Lion USB installer thumb drive. This year, I update those instructions for Mountain Lion. You'll need a copy of the OS ...

When web utilities won't work and all hope fails, a properly loaded thumb drive can fix PC hassles in a flash.

Despite the popularity of AirDrop, cloud services and email, the most convenient way to share files is sometimes with a thumb drive. See how to format a drive to work with Windows PCs and Macs.

How to Encrypt a Thumb Drive. Thumb drives can be very handy for storing and transporting important business files and personal data. Because of their size, however, they are also quite easy to ...

In this guide, we show you the steps set up a USB flash drive with multiple partitions to use different file systems or use BitLocker to protect a region of the drive with encryption.

The drive is 4GB of musical goodness and available through the BackyardBrand Etsy store. Geez, gadgets like this make me wish I had a lick of aptitude for playing instruments. [Etsy via Coolest ...

Life is too short to rely on bad USB flash drives. We have fast, reliable picks that won’t hurt your wallet.

Perhaps, a thumb drive is a new definition of a library. Perhaps, upon enrolling, future students at Vermont State University will receive thumb drives containing the collections of the former ...