Will the hard disk be made useless after it's forced to help flash memory destroy optical media? As flash encroaches on more of optical media's territory, I see it teaming up with hard disk drives to ...

Storage this week pretty much covered the gamut of the entire industry, from hyper-convergence to optical discs that blow Blu-Ray out of the water, it had a taste of all of the delicacies emerging ...

One of the most interesting parts of the recent Apple Mac Mini and MacBook Air refresh is that Apple is moving away from optical drives. Apple isn't the only company to do so, raising the question "Is ...

Like cassette tapes and floppy disks, there are many who believe optical discs are on their way out. As flash memory is now abundant and continuously increasing in size while decreasing in price, they ...

Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data safe for billions of years, describe Peter Kazansky, Ausra Cerkauskaite and Rokas ...

A non-volatile, random access memory (RAM) technology that was designed to replace flash memory and, ultimately, DRAM memory. Developed by Stanford Ovshinsky, reknowned for his inventions in memories ...