Hard drives take up a lot of room and eat a lot of battery power. Flash memory could soon offer an alternative for notebooks. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...

The flash drive also allows you to enable Admin, User, and One-Time recovery passwords. Admins can set up passwords for users, giving them access to permitted content only.

Flash cost A 15k 74 GB Seagate SAS drive is about $175 or roughly $2/GB. A 2 GB Single Level Cell (SLC) flash chip is currently about $8/GB on the flash spot market. If flash keeps dropping at 50% ...

April 5 is National Flash Drive Day. It commemorates the day in the year 2000 when the United States issued a patent for the device, opening the door to putting them on the market.