By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Capacity Versus Performance Rapid advances in technology have catapulted the amount of data that can be stored by single devices to higher and higher levels. Hard disk drives (HDDs) lead the game against solid state drives (SSDs) when it comes to storage capacity; however,…
Change is in the wind and it’s shaking up the solid-state drive industry. Seagate paid $450 million last week to acquire parts of LSI from Avago. The two jewels Seagate picked up in the deal are the LSI Flash Components Division (which includes the important Sand Force controller technology) and…
Solid-state drive (SSD) manufacturers are working with a new standard interface that allows SSDs to work at speeds closer to their full potential. The introduction of this new interface, which is called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe), is similar in importance to the now-ubiquitous USB connections used to link computers and…
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…
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…
