Yeah, I know what you're thinking: "Why the hell is Rory claiming the USB key is the Greatest Gadget of the 21st Century? This man drives Ferraris for breakfast and lounges in Jaguars for lunch. This ...

In brief: Joining the list of things that aren't as good as they used to be are microSD cards and USB sticks, both of which are showing a decline in the quality of their components. A new study found ...

A laptop with two flash drives placed next to it - Aliaksander Pakhuchy/Shutterstock USB sticks and flash drives seem simple. You plug them into a USB port, transfer data, and unplug them once you are ...

Most are Windows-only, but a couple will follow you to Linux, too.

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Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...