What will you be doing in 3009? While you may be dead and gone, one startup wants to ensure that even after 40 generations of your progeny have come and gone, your great-great-great-etc.-grandkids will still be able to watch that precious copy of Read More

First came movies on USB thumb drives. Now feature films are suddenly Read More

Reader Ryan writes: For years I have been bouncing back and forth between my home desktop and the one I have at my law office. I prefer not to carry my clients' files around for confidentiality reasons in a laptop between the two places. ... Read More

I was almost joking when I suggested back in 2007 that movie studios might package motion pictures on flash media like SD cards or USB thumb drives... ... Read More

Reader Harry writes: My dvd drive in my computer says DVD+/-RW. ... Read More

Reader Arash writes: I'm looking into buying an external hard drive to back up pictures and old files. Do you have any brand you recommend? Or what should I look for? Flash vs. regular, name-brand vs. generic, etc. ... Read More

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Solid-state hard drives are rapidly moving from luxury splurge item that CEOs drop into their $3,500 laptops to gear suitable for the mainstream. ... Read More

Optical media is perpetually playing catch-up against its magnetic counterpart, with the highest-capacity optical discs typically offering about a tenth the storage space of the highest-capacity hard disk drives.And that gap has been getting even larger i Read More

At last the price of a Blu-ray disc is beginning to dip into viability. ... Read More