Just about everyone has heard the hype surrounding solid-state drives, but only now are we starting to see SSDs get a foothold as a storage alternative for everyday use. The market is flooded with ...

At this last January's CES, we got a look at a bunch of ultra-mobile PCs, some of which have solid state (100 percent chip-based) "hard drives" in them (solid state drives or "SSDs"). Most notable of ...

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 ...

As their storage capacity goes up and their costs go down, SSDs or Solid State Drives are becoming more attractive as enterprise data storage devices for desktop PCs, laptops and servers. While hard ...

I have been a technology journalist for 30-plus years and have covered just about every kind of computer gear—from the 386SX to 64-core processors—in my long tenure as an editor, a writer, and an ...

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 ...

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 ...