Memory is made up of "random access memory" (RAM) chips, which are upgradable by the user in a desktop computer but not ... storage (SSDs and USB drives) uses "flash memory chips," a poorly ...

Evolving from the EEPROM chip, flash was invented by Toshiba in the mid-1980s and named after its ability to erase a block of data "in a flash." However, this block erasing is flash memory's ...