Forward-looking: The first commercial SSDs had capacities measuring in the gigabytes and speeds of around 50 megabytes per second. Today, companies like Sabrent and Apex Storage are developing drives ...

Once upon a time, a 40-megabyte hard drive was the size of a cinder block and cost nearly $1,000. That’s “megabyte” with an “m.” Of course, we’ve become accustomed to multi-gigabyte storage capacity ...

The metric system's governing body has added some new terms to help describe massive amounts of data. The General Conference on Weights and Measures last week added the prefixes "ronna" and "quetta." ...

Peng-Chi Fang discusses his summer internship with CCC Intelligent Solutions and his project investigating a new platform that would help process massive amounts of data. To understand the volume of ...