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 of ...

Editor’s note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid ...

In this fourth installment of our MacBook Air review series, we pit Apple's standard hard disk drive (HDD) model against the standard solid state drive (SSD) configuration in a set of battery and ...

As a fundamental of data protection, Raid (redundant array of independent disks), has been around since the mid-1980s. The idea is quite simple; use multiple disk drives to enable data protection (via ...

February 23, 2007 It was just a month ago that we were reporting on the sudden jump in Solid State Disk (SSD) capacity with a 32 GB disk appearing nine months ago, then a 64 GB and a 128 GB drive ...

May 24, 2006 Samsung has announced the imminent release of one of the world’s highest performance laptops. In addition to being the world's first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte (GB) NAND flash-based ...

Most users do not pay attention to the SSD's conditions until the problem and damage happened. Nowadays, most industrial computers adopt SSD because of its reliability and excellent performance. The ...

An introduction to cloud computing from IaaS and PaaS to hybrid, public and private cloud. Read now High capacity disks have found a home in hyperscale data centers because their $/GB are unbeatable.

Learn about write amplification, its impact on SSD performance and lifespan, and how to mitigate its effects through proper ...