But wait! You may find the problem eases if you have some extra RAM to hand and you don't need to spend a fortune. By turning ...

How about never - is never good for you? As a long-time fan of flash (NAND) storage - and a flash notebook long-ago user - I've been repeatedly surprised at how the hype for flash drives and the ...

The math seems simple enough: semiconductor prices keep plunging at a steady 40% annually. In the aughts disk drives exceeded that for a several years, but now are moving much slower. Flash will catch ...

Both flash and traditional spinning disk drives have to perform the same job. So what’s the difference, and why would you choose one over the other as you migrate to a modern storage environment? Read ...

Will the hard disk be made useless after it's forced to help flash memory destroy optical media? As flash encroaches on more of optical media's territory, I see it teaming up with hard disk drives to ...

David Flynn is all grins when discussing the inevitable decimation of the storage industry. Newton's laws of motion enumerate how all things move in our universe, including the spinning magnetic discs ...

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, ...

A lot of capacity for little money? With every generation of flash data carriers, counterfeit cheat packs also come onto the market. Even renowned hard disk manufacturers are not always completely ...

Solid-state disks (SSD) are probably some of the most talked-about new gadgets of late. They easily distinguish themselves from the mechanical hard drives of the Jurassic period because they have no ...

All-flash arrays are still new enough to be somewhat exotic but are – finally – becoming mainstream. As we have been saying for years, there will come a point where enterprises, which have much more ...

Note: Microsoft broke this fun how-to when they released the dashboard upgrade yesterday. The upgrade fixes some bugs, breaks things like this how-to and doesn't offer any new features. So, if you ...