Driven by such issues as regulatory concerns, multimedia and e-mail spam, storage use is continually escalating even as its costs decline. Within this dynamic environment, cash-strapped end users ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

Until the widespread adoption of NAND flash, persistent storage was generally based on mechanical devices. We had punched tape and cards (both of which have pretty much disappeared), then tape and ...

This application note describes the usage of file I/O functions using Microchip’s memory disk drive file system library. Microchip’s memory disk drive file system is: Based on ISO/IEC 9293 ...

In our coverage of the string of next-generation HPC systems, we have talked about the big changes on the programming, memory, and network horizons, but there is one potentially disruptive change on ...

Over at Colfax Research, Andrey Vladimirov, Vadim Karpusenko, and Tony Yoo have posted a new whitepaper entitled: File I/O on Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors: RAM disks, VirtIO, NFS and Lustre. The key ...

Over the last year, cloud storage services Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive—and probably others—have migrated from custom kernel extensions to Apple’s new-ish File Provider extension ...

Apple's macOS provides a way to mount and access storage volumes used by other operating systems on your desktop. Here's how to get started. Your Mac is able to read an audio CD, or most USB thumbs ...

For all the talk of enterprise flash and the all-flash datacentre, there are several areas where hard disks are still chugging along nicely. One of those is NAS. You ...

This source code supports Microchip?s Application Note AN1045: Implementing File I/O Functions Using Microchip?s Memory Disk Drive File System Library, which describes the usage of file I/O functions ...