I've frequently written in the past, both online and in print, about the differing cost-per-bit and floor cost dynamics of hard drives and flash memory. In summary, a hard drive is burdened by the ...

It’s taken two years to actually deliver a product that uses the technology, but Intel’s Optane Memory could squeeze some life from your old, slow HDD. Right now SDD, or flash, memory is the fastest ...

With the combined technologies, WD will be able to store 2.2 terabytes (TB) per hard disk platter, extending capacity gains on proven ePMR technology. “We see a path to the first 3-terabyte ...

"Memory is the new disk," Jim Gray liked to say. The database pioneer died in 2007 after he was lost at sea, but like so much of the man, his words about memory and disk live on. Fred Holahan, the ...

Western Digital on Tuesday named chief executives for its soon-to-be separated flash memory and traditional hard-disk drive (HDD) businesses and said the process was on track for completion in the ...

Flash memory and hard-disk drives could face a challenge from a new chip technology, dubbed phase-change memory, being developed by a group of companies led by IBM.