Notebooks need longer battery life I used a flash-disk based notebook for much of the '90s and loved its 10-hour battery life. You just have so much more freedom when you don't need to worry about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Samsung has a new laptop prototype that doesn't use a hard-disk drive; it runs on 32 gigabytes of flash memory. Steve Inskeep talks with David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times about ...

Flash is truly disruptive. We’ve been using hard disks for almost 60 years, and both storage system design and storage management have revolved around them. Fundamentally, with hard disks we can ...

Back in June of this year, Super Talent released a rather interesting USB 3.0 powered device. Dubbed the DRAM Disk, and rightly so, this USB 3.0 flash drive allocates system memory and creates a very ...