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Flash storage is increasingly important to the enterprise market, and analysts expect solid-state drives (SSDs) to largely replace spinning disks for enterprise systems, endpoints and consumer devices ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many times. Thankfully, we’re long removed from the days of hard drives taking ...

For all the talk of enterprise flash and the all-flash datacentre, there are several areas where hard disks are still chugging along nicely. One of those is NAS. You ...

Eric Brewer and colleagues from Google presented an interesting white paper at the Usenix FAST conference in Santa Clara, CA. They argue that with the growth in portable devices and services in the ...

Storage formats aren't short-lived in the way CPUs and GPUs are; they last for decades, not years. Yet, when you zoom out and look at the storage types that have become obsolete, irrelevant, or ...