Though solid-state drives are in vogue, market forces and technical issues are giving the venerable hard-disk drive new life. DRAMexchange, a Taipei-based market intelligence firm, said last week ...

Faster and dramatically more power-efficient than rotating magnetic media, solid-state disks (SSDs) are one of the longest-awaited and most eagerly anticipated technologies in the past two decades ...

In 1976, Dataram introduced the world’s first solid-state drive, the Bulk Core. The product consisted of a rack-mount chassis–measuring 19 inches wide by 15.75 inches tall–that held up to ...

It's common to see solid state disks still measured in gigabytes, whereas the biggest traditional hard disk tops out at a whopping 4 TB. In terms of capacity, then, solid state disks are very ...

Most observers agree that solid-state disk (SSD) will eventually overtake magnetic disk drives as the storage medium of choice. SSD is lighter than traditional hard disk drives, is faster, is more ...

We tested two popular laptop drives, the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB hard drive and the OCZ Vertex 120GB solid-state disk drive to determine just what you get for your money. Some of the results ...

Seagate bided its time before offering its first SSD product, which is aimed at the general server and blade server market Seagate Technology today announced its first solid-state disk drive and ...

Solid-state disk (SSD) drives are all the rage among techies. The drives use non-volatile NAND flash memory, meaning there are no moving parts. Because there is no actuator arm and read/write head ...

Historically, booting a Raspberry Pi required an SD card. However, if you follow [tynick’s] instructions, you can get a Pi 4 to boot from the USB port. Combine it with a small solid state disk ...