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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple Inc. could swap out hard disk drives with NAND flash memory in its next line of iPod video players later this year, according to an analyst report issued today. Jesse Tortora, an analyst at ...

Samsung is planning to shake up the hard drive market with a 32GB drive that uses NAND flash memory chips rather than magnetic platters. The South Korean company formally launched its 32GB flash hard ...

The flash storage industry has evolved in the past couple of years even as the spinning hard disk industry continues to shrink. Dublin, Ireland-based research firm Research and Markets this year ...