Five years ago, Western Digital, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) storage technologies, doled out $19 billion in cash and stock for SanDisk and its solid state drive (SDD) product portfolio, giving ...

The days of the disk drive have been numbered for so long that it is hard to take any prediction of its demise seriously. It is literally like predicting the demise of the IBM mainframe. In fact, the ...

Are you accidentally ruining your USB? Discover the four common mistakes people make with flash drives and learn how to ...

Flash drive per-gigabyte (GB) prices have dropped by more than 10% since March 2023 to an average of $0.075/GB this week. That’s down from around $0.09 per gigabyte six months ago. At the same time, ...

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 ...

Pure Storage says that its new FlashBlade//E solution is cheaper, has more capacity and is more environmentally friendly than hard disk alternatives. The price convergence of hard disk and flash ...

The world of storage is in the throes of a significant upheaval, as the increasing affordability of flash and the ubiquity of virtualization spark new and innovative approaches to the back-end storage ...