Solid-state drives (SSDs) continued to outpace hard disk drive (HDD) sales by a wide margin last year and will grow even more popular in 2014, according to industry reports. Infostor, a storage industry publisher, reported shipments of SSDs grew by 82 percent in 2013 to 57 million units. There is…
DriveSavers has won the 2014 Visionary Company Award at the annual Storage Visions Conference in Las Vegas. The Visionary Company Award is given each year to a company that is “advancing the state of the art in storage technologies utilized in consumer electronics and in the media and entertainment industries, and to…
What happens in an Internet minute? A lot! According to a study released by Intel, there’s an astounding amount of online activity happening on a 24/7 basis. Social media usage over the past few years has helped spur greater use of the Internet and accounts for a large part of…
A group of Pennsylvania technology students has taken Halloween to a new level by creating a computer out of a pumpkin. The challenge for the students, who are from the Clearfield County Career and Technology Center, was to build a functional computer using traditional hardware fitted into a big orange…
You’ve got a friend in the data storage business. That’s the word from a new trade group formed to spread the word about conventional hard disk drive storage and newer devices employing solid state storage technology. The Storage Products Association (SPA), a non-profit trade group consisting of Hitachi GST, Seagate, Toshiba and Western…
The Penguin, The Riddler, and The Joker. Q: What is something that everyone should know but never tell anyone else? A: Your password. Passwords should be an important part of your digital experience. With password protection comes security and the peace of mind that our private stuff stays private. We…
Hard drive manufacturers are becoming more of an endangered species every day. Of the 200+ different makers of electro-mechanical hard drives that emerged over the past 57 years – from Advanced Storage Technologies to Zentek Storage – only three remain viable in the same industry today. The big three are…
Anyone dealing with solid-state (SSD) drive technology should know a few things about how these unique devices work and what they are supposed to do. An SSD, like the Intel 160GB device shown here, uses flash memory chips to store data. Unlike a traditional electro-mechanical drive, a solid-state drive has no…
