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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hybrid drives, or SSHDs, once aimed to merge the speed of SSDs with the capacity of HDDs, but real-world performance gains were minimal due to limited flash storage and lack of user control over file ...

Simplicity and innovation are the foundations on which John ‘Coz’ Colgrove started Pure Storage in 2009. He wanted to keep these principles while achieving a vision to take flash storage mainstream ...

Flash memory and hard disk drives could face a challenge from a new chip technology, dubbed phase-change memory, being developed by a group of companies led by IBM. The companies on Monday announced ...

SanDisk and Western Digital have crushed the market over the past year, but one of them looks more suited to extend its rally ...

Apple's investments in acquiring flash memory expertise and technology appear to be centered around packing more storage capacity into Macs and iOS devices at lower prices, with the same level of ...