Flash drives are expensive and hold less data, but for tablet PCs, which tend to get dropped a lot, they can be a good fit. Photos: Flash-based LifeBooks Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...

Two decades ago Samsung took a leap in the dark. The company has always been known for breaking new ground, but at the beginning of the century it turned its attention to a storage technology that ...

Let us discuss this topic in more detail. 1] Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or Solid-State Drive (SSD) When it comes down to common computer memory, the hard disk drive is likely at the top of the list. If you ...

Leveraging lightning-fast technology already familiar to many from the micro storage world of digital cameras, thumb drives and laptop computers, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the ...

It used to be that every few years, the business media would report on the latest “slump” in sales of flash memory semiconductors. This was a decades-long trend — demand would “hot up,” as the Brits ...

In 1987 Fujio Masuoka, then working at Toshiba, introduced NAND flash at the 1987 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco. Toshiba said that the name “flash” was suggested ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. Tablet PCs probably get dropped more than other computers, so Fujitsu has created two machines that store data by using flash memory rather ...