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 ...

Sometime before the end of this year, it will be possible to get a petabyte of raw flash storage capacity that fits within a 3U rack enclosure, and if current trends persist, such a device will cost ...

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 ...

Flash storage continues on a trajectory to become more affordable than magnetic disk for the majority of IT applications by the end of 2016, according to Wikibon’s latest Storage Cost Assumptions. In ...

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 ...

Disk storage giants are left with no choice but to build, buy or partner with companies specializing in flash technology as enterprises are shifting storage needs quickly. As a result, all-flash ...

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Toshiba founded the flash memory based storage market. With the rapid advancements in semiconductor technology and the falling prices of flash memory, the storage industry is quickly adopting ...

A quarter of new laptops and half of new desktop PCs will adopt an emerging data storage method by 2016, pairing flash memory with traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) for better overall performance, ...

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 ...