Will flash drives survive, or end up on the trash heap of tech? Is there already a quicker, hassle-free solution for data storage?

Kingston has decided to release an astronomical amount of memory on a 256GB flash drive. Is that too much?

Apple has released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, which can be used to create an external Lion recovery partition. This will allow a user who can’t use the native Lion recovery partition to create a new, external one.

What will happen if your hard drive suddenly dies? You might lose all of your valuable data and it could take hours to restore Windows and all the programs you had on it. You need to create a full system recovery backup and ToDo Backup is a free and easy way to do that.

Do you have a netbook PC without a CD drive? Do you need a backup recovery disk, system rescue disk or a Linux OS that you can boot from a USB drive? If so, UNetbootin can be a big help.

A free encryption utility designed to make it simple to hide and encrypt files on a USB flash/thumb drive. Using Rohos, nobody will ever see your hidden data if it gets lost or stolen.

Many people worry what’ll happen to their data if they lose their little USB sticks. Recently I’ve been trying out a great program called SafeHouse Explorer. It’s keeping my data safe no matter who gets it.

Windows by default provides you with a utility which will allow you to safely remove the USB hardware from your PC without causing any damage to it. That said the utility provided by Windows has a long way to go with their interface which is very confusing to the end user.