Solid-state drive adoption will continue to grow and it will be more than 10 years before it is ultimately replaced by a new memory technology, experts said. SSDs are getting more attractive as NAND flash gets faster and cheaper, as it ...
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Enterprises are gaining the ability to turn existing storage platforms over to flash even as solid-state media remains mostly a tool for caching and for applications with special requirements. On Wednesday, Hitachi Data Systems is ...
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Western Digital plans to acquire sTec to boost its presence in the market for enterprise solid-state drives. The two companies have signed a definitive agreement under which sTec will be acquired by HGST, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...
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Hewlett-Packard will extend its 3Par enterprise storage line into flash-only territory this week, promising to combine higher speed with familiar software. The HP 3Par StoreServ 7450 Storage system, being introduced on Tuesday at the HP ...
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Many enterprise storage systems include two or more types of hard disk drives, with data automatically moved between those two tiers of storage. The same concept has now been applied to two types of SSDs. Dell has modified the ...
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Seagate Technology today announced its new portfolio of solid-state drives (SSDs) -- including its first consumer model for laptops -- and a new PCIe flash card. The new 2.5-in drive series includes the consumer-class Seagate 600 SSD, the ...
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Hewlett-Packard on Monday kicked off a series of upcoming PC announcements with new ProBook 400 series laptops, including a 15.6-inch model with a touchscreen. The new laptops are 36 percent thinner and 18 percent lighter than their ...
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LET'S call it bragging rights. That's what shelling out $40,000 gets you when you buy Samsung's slick new S9 85-inch television. It's the latest set on the Australian market to offer so-called "ultra-high definition" picture quality, ...
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LET'S call it bragging rights. That's what shelling out $40,000 gets you when you buy Samsung's slick new S9 85-inch television. It's the latest set on the Australian market to offer so-called "ultra-high definition" picture quality, ...
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing a 128-gigabit (Gb), 3-bit multi-level-cell (MLC) NAND memory chip using sub-20 nanometer (nm)-class process technology. The flash chip will be used to create Samsung's ...
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When some of Iraq's most historic sites were destroyed by war, Ben Kacyra decided to sell his civil engineering company and start a nonprofit in 2003 with the mission of digitally preserving cultural heritage sites throughout the world with ...
Seagate today announced upgrades to its 2.5-in. laptop hybrid drives and released its first 3.5-in. desktop hybrid drive. Hybrid drives combine a relatively small amount of NAND flash with traditional spinning disks along with firmware ...
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A security researcher has found a loophole in how the HTML5 Web Storage standard is implemented in the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Apple Safari browsers that could allow malicious websites to fill visitors' hard disk drives with ...
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Western Digital has announced what it said is a nanotechnology breakthrough that will allow the company to double data storage capacity on hard disk drives (HDD). The discovery was made by HGST Labs, a company owned by Western Digital ...
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Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) said today that they have found a way to use high-frequency sound waves to improve magnetic data storage techniques. The breakthrough could allow greater amounts of data to be stored on both ...
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