Krishna Chander is the senior storage analyst for iSuppli Corp. Media coverage of the storage industry often concentrates on the perceived fight for market dominance between Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) ...

Western Digital's OptiNAND technology optimizes and integrates hard disk drives with an iNAND embedded flash drive, which should improve drive capacity, performance, and reliability. Since 2004, I ...

Multiple-level cell (MLC) NAND Flash memory has a reputation for being the cheaper, lower-performance non-volatile memory solution when compared to single-level cell (SLC) NAND, but improved process ...

Thinking about upgrading the hard drive in my intel mini to one of the newer NAND or Flash drives. The main reason I want to upgrade the hard drive is because the mini hard drive is too slow (4200 I ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. SanDisk wants to replace the hard drive in notebooks ...

In the world of flash memory, two primary types dominate the market: NOR flash and NAND flash. While they both serve as essential components in various electronic devices, they differ significantly in ...

Samsung has announced the mass production of the first 3D NAND chips -- and with them, the beginning of a manufacturing initiative that will push solid-state cost-per-GB ever closer to magnetic ...

Twelve months ago, if you had asked anyone in the industry what the biggest limiting factor for future AI data center growth ...

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 ...

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Data Corporation (IDC) recently published new forecasts for the worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) and solid state drive (SSD) markets. While both markets ...