Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now offers the Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive (SSD) storage service commercially, or at the "general availability" stage, in a few Azure regions. The ...

Despite the many advantages of disk storage for backing up data, shipments of tape storage keep growing because for some jobs, tape is best. It might surprise some that despite the popularity of disk ...

Broadcasters wanting the most cutting-edge solutions for digital video storage can consider emerging solid state “flash” memory systems for professional use, but spinning disk drives and digital tape ...

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‘Up until now, storage systems have been provided for individual use cases, and competitors have generally had four, five, six, or even more unique systems, different software environments, different ...

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 primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in ...

Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has plenty of life in it yet. It is true that flash storage offers ...

NVMe drives have paved the way for computing at stellar speeds, but the technology didn't suddenly appear overnight. It was through an evolutionary process that we now rely on the very performant SSD ...

MacOS can act in mysterious ways, and it can be difficult from either the Finder or through > About This Mac > Storage view to figure out exactly what is eating up your disk storage. Especially on ...