Solid-state hard drives trade the rapidly spinning magnetic platters and multiple moving read/write heads of a traditional hard drive for a bank of the same type of memory chips used in USB drives, ...

Solid state drives (SSDs) are faster and safer than regular hard disk drives (HDDs). On the other hand, hard disk drives tend to be less expensive than newer solid state drives. The best computer ...

Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid state drives (SSDs) based on capacity, performance and cost. A lot has changed in three years. For one, laptops are quickly being ...

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 ...

You don't need an SSD for everything—you should buy a used hard drive instead ...

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Data Corporation (IDC) recently published new forecasts for the worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) and solid state drive (SSD) markets. While both markets ...

Frustrated with slow processing rates, many organizations are looking to switch from hard disk drive (HDD) storage devices to solid-state drive (SSD) technology. But questions of SSD capacity and cost ...

The best way to find out which storage drives are the most reliable is to run tens of thousands of them and keep an eye on reliability. This is exactly what backup specialists Backblaze do. As of the ...

Looking to upgrade your hard drive on your computer? If you're in the market for a ton of storage, this is the biggest hard ...

The SSD solid-state hard drives included in MacBook Airs or available as an option with other MacBooks are proprietary components. This means that unlike the regular hard drives included in other ...

In this post, we will discuss ways to protect your Solid State Drive to make it last longer. SSDs are quite hardy but they still need tender care. People are slowly moving away from HDD (Hard Drives) ...