System manufacturers are taking advantage of a key property of the flash memory chips that make up solid-state disks, by creating "fast erase" features that could catch on for a variety of business ...

Intel has announced a new, tinier version of its Z-P230 SSD designed for netbooks and low profile desktop computers. The new card weighs just 8 grams, making it noticeably lighter than the original ...

Solid-state disk (SSD) drives are all the rage among techies. The drives use non-volatile NAND flash memory, meaning there are no moving parts. Because there is no actuator arm and read/write head ...

Falling prices for nonvolatile flash memory have prompted some notebook manufacturers to go beyond hybrid disks and announce systems that replace the entire hard disk with a solid-state disk (SSD). In ...

SSD capacity prices are now over 20 times those of HDD capacity prices.  Storage tiering that includes SSDs and HDDs with ...

The feature-rich DC4800 family of data center SSDs is OCP-compliant and designed to address the needs of modern, high-performance, energy-efficient data centers NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE ...

Your old computer may seem like it's on its last legs, but you might be able to save it with a simple upgrade. Here's the ...

In an earlier posting, I noted that Solid-State Disks (SSDs) have certain behavioral differences from traditional spinning disks. One of these has to do with the speed of disk writes. In a spinning ...

What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.