The main problem with hard drives is wear and tear on the moving parts. Eventually, all mechanical parts will wear out and ...

How about never - is never good for you? As a long-time fan of flash (NAND) storage - and a flash notebook long-ago user - I've been repeatedly surprised at how the hype for flash drives and the ...

For example, the SK Hynix Tube T31 hides a proper M.2 NVMe SSD with a DRAM cache inside its body and delivers an average ...

David Flynn is all grins when discussing the inevitable decimation of the storage industry. Newton's laws of motion enumerate how all things move in our universe, including the spinning magnetic discs ...

Will the hard disk be made useless after it's forced to help flash memory destroy optical media? As flash encroaches on more of optical media's territory, I see it teaming up with hard disk drives to ...

Think about your desk in your office — your desktop and drawers are likely littered with USB flash drives. They are given out at conferences and trade shows, and they are now a ubiquitous staple of ...

February 23, 2007 It was just a month ago that we were reporting on the sudden jump in Solid State Disk (SSD) capacity with a 32 GB disk appearing nine months ago, then a 64 GB and a 128 GB drive ...

The math seems simple enough: semiconductor prices keep plunging at a steady 40% annually. In the aughts disk drives exceeded that for a several years, but now are moving much slower. Flash will catch ...

Samsung has a new laptop prototype that doesn't use a hard-disk drive; it runs on 32 gigabytes of flash memory. Steve Inskeep talks with David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times about ...

All-flash arrays are still new enough to be somewhat exotic but are – finally – becoming mainstream. As we have been saying for years, there will come a point where enterprises, which have much more ...

The five largest manufacturers of hard-disk drives will work together to promote a new technology that promises to improve system performance, the companies said Thursday. Hitachi Global Storage ...