And thanks to controller combinations inside flash memories (think raid like solutions) last year we noticed the trend of flash-drives, or Solid State Drives. The alarmingly fast move of solid-state ...

In this fourth installment of our MacBook Air review series, we pit Apple's standard hard disk drive (HDD) model against the standard solid state drive (SSD) configuration in a set of battery and ...

Most observers agree that solid-state disk (SSD) will eventually overtake magnetic disk drives as the storage medium of choice. SSD is lighter than traditional hard disk drives, is faster, is more ...

NVMe drives have paved the way for computing at stellar speeds, but the technology didn't suddenly appear overnight. It was through an evolutionary process that we now rely on the very performant SSD ...

Editor’s note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid ...

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 ...

As a fundamental of data protection, Raid (redundant array of independent disks), has been around since the mid-1980s. The idea is quite simple; use multiple disk drives to enable data protection (via ...

May 24, 2006 Samsung has announced the imminent release of one of the world’s highest performance laptops. In addition to being the world's first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte (GB) NAND flash-based ...

An introduction to cloud computing from IaaS and PaaS to hybrid, public and private cloud. Read now High capacity disks have found a home in hyperscale data centers because their $/GB are unbeatable.

Using a virtual solid-state drive can be a handy way to save time and money for certain vSphere tasks. One of my favorite upgrades in VMware's vSphere 5.5 is Flash Read Cache, or vFlash. It's ...