Because SSD is based on NAND flash memory chip technology, it has no moving parts, which makes it faster and less prone to mechanical failure than hard disk drives. Today, costs are shrinking faster ...

And thanks to controller combinations inside flash memories (think raid like solutions) last year we noticed the trend of flash-drives, or Solid State Drives. The alarmingly fast move of solid-state ...

May 24, 2006 Samsung has announced the imminent release of one of the world’s highest performance laptops. In addition to being the world's first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte (GB) NAND flash-based ...

Before the last hard-disk drive spins down, IT teams need to navigate an HDD-to-SSD transition. Here's a look at current options and best practices. When it comes to venerable IT technologies, it’s ...

Stop these habits right now if you want your SSD to have a long life ...

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 ...

Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid state drives (SSDs) based on capacity, performance and cost. A lot has changed in three years. For one, laptops are quickly being ...

February 23, 2007 It was just a month ago that we were reporting on the sudden jump in Solid State Disk (SSD) capacity with a 32 GB disk appearing nine months ago, then a 64 GB and a 128 GB drive ...

In this fourth installment of our MacBook Air review series, we pit Apple's standard hard disk drive (HDD) model against the standard solid state drive (SSD) configuration in a set of battery and ...

As a fundamental of data protection, Raid (redundant array of independent disks), has been around since the mid-1980s. The idea is quite simple; use multiple disk drives to enable data protection (via ...

Editor’s note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid ...