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 ...

NVMe drives have paved the way for computing at stellar speeds, but the technology didn't suddenly appear overnight. It was through an evolutionary process that we now rely on the very performant SSD ...

As more enterprises harness emerging technologies such as the internet of things (IoT) and big data to keep pace with their business, they are often held back by a key component in their datacentres – ...

While performance is a key differentiator, making the right solid-state storage choice is made more complex by questions of capacity and endurance. The largest commercially available SSDs now come in ...

From enterprise flash to experimental archival media, these are ten technologies looking to replace traditional hard drives... one day.

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 ...

Due to the unique characteristics of flash, performance validation testing is immensely challenging and critically important; follow these best practices All-flash storage arrays (AFAs) are receiving ...

The world of storage is in the throes of a significant upheaval, as the increasing affordability of flash and the ubiquity of virtualization spark new and innovative approaches to the back-end storage ...

Across a wide range of consumer devices, from cameras to smartphones to laptops, flash storage has become the de facto standard for digital data storage. Because of its relative compactness, speed and ...

Hard-drive and storage stocks surged after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted data storage as a key AI bottleneck at CES.