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  As the storage wars between SSDs and HDDs drag on, SSDs have seemed to be gaining a decisive upper hand. Companies like Toshiba, Seagate, and Western Digital have shown off their next-generation technologies like Energy-Assisted Magnetic Recording (EAMR, WD) and Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR, Seagate), but both companies seem …

Rumor: TSMC Won’t Build New Capacity for Intel, Views Orders as Temporary Intel’s decision to tap pure-play foundries like TSMC for potentially any future project has sent shockwaves through the industry. One of the biggest questions raised in the wake of the announcement is just how temporary it truly is. …

With QLC, SSD Manufacturers Target Hard Drive’s Final Strength: Raw Capacity Just over two years ago, Micron became the first company to launch commercial products based on QLC (quad-level cell) technology. Intel followed with consumer-facing products later in 2018. These drives can hold up to four bits of data per …

Hard drives and NAND flash memory can store a lot more data than they could just a few years ago, but they’ve still got nothing on DNA. The genetic material in nearly every cell of your body has a vastly higher storage capacity than a hard drive, and it could …

How much storage space do you need on a laptop? For most people, a few hundred gigabytes will do it. Maybe you need a terabyte on the device if you work with a lot of big files. Flash drives were long seen as a way to keep a subset of …

Hard drives may not demand the enthusiast attention they once did, thanks to the vastly improved performance of SSDs. But they still offer much more storage at a lower cost per gigabyte than your typical solid state drive. Western Digital was the first company to bring helium-filled hard drives to …