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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»