An increasing number of applications such as personal media players, video recorders, and televisions with built-in time-shifting capabilities continue to drive the need for larger and more ...

Microsoft research project makes flash storage work more efficiently in conjunction with RAM and hard disk for speedier reads and writes. Microsoft researchers are trying to improve the efficiency of ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Western Digital (WD) has announced a new architecture that will combine ...

Google has revealed that it still relies on hard disk drives for most of its storage needs, but has been able to ‘dramatically’ improve the performance of its storage systems with a homebrew automated ...

A quarter of new laptops and half of new desktop PCs will adopt an emerging data storage method by 2016, pairing flash memory with traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) for better overall performance, ...

Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has plenty of life in it yet. It is true that flash storage offers ...

Flash storage is increasingly important to the enterprise market, and analysts expect solid-state drives (SSDs) to largely replace spinning disks for enterprise systems, endpoints and consumer devices ...

Five years ago, Western Digital, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) storage technologies, doled out $19 billion in cash and stock for SanDisk and its solid state drive (SDD) product portfolio, giving ...

June 10, 2005 The global love affair with the portable digital music (aka MP3) player continues to flourish with more players, larger capacities and cheaper prices, all the while fueled by more of the ...

Large among the current technology debates is whether or not flash memory will displace hard-disk drives (HDDs) as the foremost digital storage device. The hypothesis has received much attention from ...

The days of the disk drive have been numbered for so long that it is hard to take any prediction of its demise seriously. It is literally like predicting the demise of the IBM mainframe. In fact, the ...