Flash Memory

Flash memory, Wikipedia (but see also Microdrive)
Readers' Letters, The Guardian, 2006 August 31 (see David Williams' piece)

Data Storage

Wikipedia, Data storage device
IBM, Data storage details
The Computer Age, Museum of American Heritage (an illustrated summary of data storage device history)
Dead Media (a less organised but fascinating collection of historical notes on data storage)

Cards
Wikipedia, Punched cards, equipment (needs a lot of editing)
IBM machinery (index to others)
Wikipedia (needs a lot of editing)
NCR, 315 with CRAM (large PDF)
IBM 2321
MICR and checks
Michael Hancock, Burroughs time line (see 1955 for magnetic stripe ledger cards)
JF van Hanswijk Pennink (ed.), NCR Time Line (see 1957 for introduction of Post Tronic magnetic stripe ledger cards, with picture)

Tapes
Wikipedia, Tape generally, paper tape, DECtape
Pinetree, Magnetic tape history (brief)
GT Gray and RQ Smith, Before the B5000: Burroughs computers, 1951-1963, Annals of the History of Computing, Vol.25, No.2, 2003 Apr.-June 2003 pp.50-61 (mentions the Datafile device with magnetic loops)
IBM 5100 (shows a picture of the tape cartridge)

Disks

IBM, history Exhibits vintage:   350 1311 2314 3340
Wikipedia, Diskettes (a good compilation, though too many errors)

Chips

"Magnetic memory" chip unveiled, BBC, 2005 July 10 (a microchip which can store information like a hard drive)
MRAM, Wikipedia
Stan Beer, Motorola spinoff Freescale delivers first MRAM, ITWire, 2006 July 10 (comments bring up the much earlier FRAM)
Spencer Kelly, Memory chip threat to hard discs, BBC, 2006 July 21
Ramtron International, FRAM technology (ferrite RAM) FRAM history
Ferroelectric RAM, Wikipedia

Implications

George Cole, Death knell for hard drives, The Guardian, 2006 August 24 (not yet a while, but as cache it looks good)

AAP, Superglue used to stop data theft, The Age, 2006 July 4 (full story in Australian Financial Review, pp.1,29)
Geesche Jacobsen, Child's crucial Brimble evidence, The Age, 2006 July 27 ("A young boy handed police a memory stick containing crucial photographic evidence . . .")

Jane Dudman, Can Microsoft make "pay as you go" PCs pay off? The Guardian, 2006 July 27
David Pogue, A Flash Drive That Holds Your Computer, The New York Times, 2006 June 15, C1,C13 (see also his blog)
John Naughton, All systems are now go on your computer, Guardian, 2006 July 9 (Parallels Desktop is an example of "virtualisation" software)
Victor Keegan, Bypass the hard disk and head for the web, Guardian, 2006 July 6 (one by one the functions that once resided on a hard disk are relocating themselves to the web at a rapid pace)
Hiawatha Bray, Making any computer your own, The Boston Globe, 2006 September 27 (major flash memory makers like SanDisk and Lexar Media have begun making "smart" thumb drives that let the user carry favorite software programs on the key-ring-size devices)

Kim Fletcher, A fine line between journalism and PR, The Guardian, 2006 July 27 (in the second substory: "now that everything is on electronic databases, we don't need those yellowing cuts")
John Sutherland, The ideas interview: Richard Masters, Guardian, 2005 July 11 (a senior British Library archive manager tells how technology is making it harder, not easier, to secure data for the future)