When Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Nano on September 7, he predicted that it would be the best-selling iPod model ever. That is a strong statement, considering that the Nano is ...

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Flash memory has had a huge impact on the way we use computers. Flash, which powers everything from thumb drives, SD cards and the memory chip in your phone up to high performance SSDs in computers ...

Western Digital's OptiNAND technology optimizes and integrates hard disk drives with an iNAND embedded flash drive, which should improve drive capacity, performance, and reliability. Since 2004, I ...

June 10, 2005 The global love affair with the portable digital music (aka MP3) player continues to flourish with more players, larger capacities and cheaper prices, all the while fueled by more of the ...

In this podcast, we talk to Toshiba’s senior manager for business development in storage, Rainer Kaese, about hard disk drives (HDDs) and why he thinks their future is assured for many years to come.

The notion of replacing PCs' hard-disk drives (HDDs) with solid-state NAND flash memory long has been pondered, but never given much serious consideration. Yet the success of Apple's flash-based iPod ...

Samsung is planning to shake up the hard drive market with a 32GB drive that uses NAND flash memory chips rather than magnetic platters. The South Korean company formally launched its 32GB flash hard ...

Samsung has developed a new computer flash technology with so much capacity it could replace mini hard drives in some PCs, the company said Monday. South Korean-based Samsung said its latest NAND ...

We all want to, so why can’t we kick the hard-drive habit? It’s not today’s data-analytics and artificial-intelligence workloads. They call for the fastest flash storage available. We’re still using ...

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