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, ...

The era of the hard drive appears to be coming to an end, with the swift rise of solid-state storage that brings with it lower power consumption and higher speeds. But wait: British scientists have ...

Question: I'd like to change out the hard drive in my laptop to a solid-state drive. What should I learn before I make the decision? My computer is a 1-year-old Apple Macbook Pro. Answer: Traditional ...

Storage has come a long way in recent years, from hard disk drives to solid-state drives, and now that we're multiple generations deep into the SSD reign, it has to be said: the HDD is not dead. While ...

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 ...

The one cheap storage upgrade your PC needs ...

Before you throw out or destroy an old hard drive, check out a few ways that you can put it to use without making our landfills any bigger.

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 ...