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 ...

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Five years ago, Western Digital, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) storage technologies, doled out $19 billion in cash and stock for SanDisk and its solid state drive (SDD) product portfolio, giving ...

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, ...

Pure Storage says that its new FlashBlade//E solution is cheaper, has more capacity and is more environmentally friendly than hard disk alternatives. The price convergence of hard disk and flash ...

South Korea’s Mtron Co. Ltd. is adding to its lineup of already speedy solid-state disk drives new models that can read and write data more quickly. The drives offer a maximum sustained read speed of ...

The idea of datacentres that run only on flash storage has been discussed for at least 10 years. During that time, some pioneering IT teams have replaced conventional hard disk drives (HDDs) and other ...

Western Digital is driving forward with both its new SanDisk Professional storage brand and its WD Black brand for gamers. And the big storage company is also plowing ahead with both flash memory (in ...

The world of storage is in the throes of a significant upheaval, as the increasing affordability of flash and the ubiquity of virtualization spark new and innovative approaches to the back-end storage ...

Apple Inc. could swap out hard disk drives with NAND flash memory in its next line of iPod video players later this year, according to an analyst report issued today. Jesse Tortora, an analyst at ...