Flash drives, or thumb drives, are portable devices that provide easy access to flash storage. Commonly used to take backups, transfer files between devices, and install operating system images, these ...

You can’t beat flash drives for convenience, but you’ll pay a hefty price for it — and we’re not talking money. If you should lose that drive, anyone can ...

The rise of cloud storage has made traditional USB drives all but obsolete, but could there still be a reason to keep an ...

Your company’s intellectual property is its most valuable asset—and its biggest liability. Here’s how to encrypt your hard ...

Allowing BitLocker without a TPM will require unlocking the operating system drive at startup with either a password or startup key on a USB flash drive. This option ...

A better alternative is to protect the contents of a storage device using a reliable encryption utility, making it almost impossible for a third party to access your data files. There are several ways ...

(Sorry if this isn't the right subforum, but it felt like the best place to at least start). This question has probably been asked a thousand times before, and I'll ask it again because there doesn't ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...