Flash memory maker Samsung is trying to drive a new kind of disk for PCs. The company announced Monday that it has developed a "solid-state disk" using flash memory for PCs, which traditionally have ...

I used - and loved - a Windows flash disk notebook for 5 years. The flash drive doubled my battery life and gave me a better sleep mode better than any I've had since - PC or Mac. I've been excited to ...

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 ...

Fujitsu Ltd. will soon join two other major PC makers in putting on sale a portable computer that uses flash memory in place of the traditional hard-disk drive. The company will offer a 16GB or 32GB ...

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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 question on everybody's lips within the computer memory industry is whether flash drives or disk drives will be the future of data storage. The battle is already underway, but it is not clear to ...

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, ...

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 ...

The rapid rise in popularity of mobile audio devices like the Apple iPod is bringing a renewed focus to the two main forms of nonvolatile storage: NAND flash and hard-disk drives. Traditionally, hard ...