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 ...
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 ...
Flash drive per-gigabyte (GB) prices have dropped by more than 10% since March 2023 to an average of $0.075/GB this week. That’s down from around $0.09 per gigabyte six months ago. At the same time, ...
Pure Storage says that its new FlashBlade//E solution is cheaper, has more capacity and is more environmentally friendly than hard disk alternatives. The price convergence of hard disk and flash ...
The world of storage is in the throes of a significant upheaval, as the increasing affordability of flash and the ubiquity of virtualization spark new and innovative approaches to the back-end storage ...
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 ...
The idea of datacentres that run only on flash storage has been discussed for at least 10 years. During that time, some pioneering IT teams have replaced conventional hard disk drives (HDDs) and other ...
Solid-state drives won’t capture the entire PC storage market in the near future, because more and more PCs will begin to combine flash memory and traditional hard disk drives for cost and performance ...
The pbm2track tool repurposes a floppy disk's track timing diagram into a secret tool for hiding pixel images.