Micron Technology MU is betting big on memory storage as a driver of its next phase of growth. In the third quarter of fiscal ...

In the last few decades there’s been a steady, exponential increase in the amount of information that can be stored on memory devices, but things have now reached a point where we’re running up ...

It isn’t only the junk processor that makes a really cheap computer slow. Or the memory or the video card (or lack of video card). The primary reason your cheap laptop loudly chugs along at glacial ...

The 10 top-rated hard disks offer reliability, speed, and durability. Portable hard disks and external hard disk make file ...

Over the 56 years of the hard disk drive industry annual shipments of HDDs have increased year over year except for a few exceptions. After the .com bubble burst in 2001 HDD shipments were essentially ...

"Memory is the new disk," Jim Gray liked to say. The database pioneer died in 2007 after he was lost at sea, but like so much of the man, his words about memory and disk live on. Fred Holahan, the ...

A Curator of Disk Drive History: Jim Porter, longtime digital storage expert and creator of the Disk/Trend industry reports for more than two decades, also is the creator and maintainer of the IDEMA ...

The IBM 350, the world's first hard disk, was released in 1956. As the RAMAC computer's memory, it had space for 3.75 megabytes of data. The cradle of the magnetic hard disk lies in the laboratories ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid ...