Copying, moving, or deleting files on a USB drive is usually straightforward. However, this may not be the case if the USB drive you're using is write-protected. As the name suggests, write protection ...

Enabling write protection on a Universal Serial Bus drive prevents users from adding, copying or deleting data from the device. If you've inserted a USB drive into your Microsoft Windows 7 computer ...

ValiDrive is a free tool that validates the true storage space and Read Write errors of USB flash drives. In this post, we will see how to download and use the tool on a Windows 11/10 PC. Mass storage ...

I just got my Autodesk Inventor 2012 update on a really nice 16Gb usb key. Conveniently I just lost the key I carry so this would make an excellent replacement. The only problem is that it is write ...

We know flash storage wears out after too many writes. But are vendor claims to be trusted? Researchers at Northeastern University decided to find out. Here's what they found. Simona Boboila and Peter ...