USB flash drives (a.k.a. “thumb” drives) may seem passé in a world where AirDrop and cloud storage solve the file-transfer ...

Both flash and traditional spinning disk drives have to perform the same job. So what’s the difference, and why would you choose one over the other as you migrate to a modern storage environment ...

How about never - is never good for you?As a long-time fan of flash (NAND) storage - and a flash notebook long-ago user - I've been repeatedly surprised at how the hype for flash drives and the ...

We can say generally that all flash arrays are now cheaper than disk arrays using high performance 15K RPM disk drives.” It is not clear how SanDisk intends to scale out the InfiniFlash arrays – they ...

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 ...

Nimbus Data Systems today announced a new all-NAND flash storage array aimed at enterprise-class data centers that it said matches disk arrays on price, but outperforms everywhere else. Nimbus’s ...

Samsung Electronics will launch two portable computers next month that use flash memory in place of a hard-disk drive for data storage, the company said Tuesday. Flash memory has long been eyed as ...

Simplicity and innovation are the foundations on which John ‘Coz’ Colgrove started Pure Storage in 2009. He wanted to keep these principles while achieving a vision to take flash storage mainstream ...

Flash memory maker Samsung is trying to drive a new kind of disk for PCs. The company announced Monday that it has developed a "solid-state disk" using flash memory for PCs, which traditionally ...

In 1995, Israeli firm M-Systems set the template for the modern flash-based SSD with its Fast Flash Disk (FFD-350) series, one of the first flash SSDs to ship in the 3.5-inch form factor that most ...

The cheapest flash chips now average about $0.80/GB on the spot market - or about 27x. Even if flash continues its 40% path, with disk at only 25%, it will take many years to close the gap. Overhead ...