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The Apple iPad may affect global memory prices

Will the forthcoming Apple iPad’s potential success have a knock-on effect for global memory prices?First, a startling fact for you – Apple already consumes almost one-third of total global NAND flash memory for use in its ...READ»

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Western Digital Spends $65 Million to Get Into SSD Market...Finally

Considering Western Digital's household name status in hard drive-based storage, it's a little surprising that the company hasn't dipped its toe in the fast-developing solid-state drive market before now. Acquiring Silicon Systems, ...READ»

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The End of the Hard Drive? Flash Memory Price Dropping

The hard drive's reign as king of desktop data storage may be ending, at least according to Samsung. Those spinning platters will be overtaken by solid-state technology within two years for one simple reason: price.Hard drive ...READ»

Why Integrated Solid-State Drives Will Make PCs Faster, Better

Solid-state drives are slowly taking over the PC data storage market--and for good reasons, with their reduced power requirement, resistance to knocks and potentially faster access times than regular hard drives. And the next step in ...READ»