Hard drives and memory are two of the most vital components in your computer. The word "memory" is sometimes used in describing storage space, which may lead to confusion regarding these two ...

“What’s the difference between memory and storage?” It’s a computer question everybody asks at least once in their life. And if you’re the “computer person” in your family, maybe you’ve answered it a ...

Your computer has two basic kinds of memory: hard drive storage and random-access memory, and they perform separate functions. Although adding a second hard drive increases your PC's storage capacity, ...

At the 2015 SNIA Industry Summit in January, Jim Handy and I gave a joint talk on the future of memory technology and how microprocessors and memory/storage are coming together to provide faster ...

We'll see more change in the next decade than we've ever seen before in computer data storage. Here's what's coming. Each choice involves different levels of investment, which usually precludes the ...

Today we’re going to trace the history of these storage technologies. So we’ve talked about computer memory a couple times in this series, but what we haven’t talked about is storage. Data written to ...

Nothing has stayed “new” as long as emerging memory technologies. Whether MRAM, PCM, ReRAM, or FRAM (or the many other names these technologies go by), these names have been bandied about as the “Next ...