Solid state drives use interconnected pools of flash memory that are managed by an SSD controller to deliver speeds far beyond what a hard disk drive (HDD) can offer. That whirring you hear when you ...

Solid-state drives won't approach magnetic hard-disk drives in pricing anytime soon, if ever. Comparison shopping makes SSDs look like a luxury purchase. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer ...

Patrick Couzens asked about using both a solid state drive (SSD) and a hard disk drive (HDD) in the same computer. I think this is an excellent idea. It gives you most of the speed advantages of an ...

The best external hard drives come in many shapes and sizes and we've highlighted the very best ahead of Black Friday for different categories and price points. When you purchase through links on our ...

When we asked the IT pros in the Server Room to name the number one barrier to solid state disk (SSD) adoption in the enterprise, "price" was the near unanimous consensus. SSD storage is still ...

The folks at Backblaze, a cloud storage and data backup company located in San Mateo, California, published a report comparing the failure rates of solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs ...