The days of the spinning disk hard drive seem to be numbered as Intel Tuesday joined the growing field of companies offering solid state flash memory drives that claim to be faster, quieter and more ...

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SSDs are most definitely on the rise, being the go-to source of faster boots and the best loading experience for software and games. Traditional disk-based hard drives have always continued to rule ...

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 ...

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When you are in the market for external storage solutions, two of the most common options you'll find are USB flash drives and external hard drives. Despite the difference in their names, both use the ...

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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 ...

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. The companies on Monday announced ...