When it comes time to buy your next high-performance laptop, chances are good that it will feature a solid state drive (SSD). But what if you’d prefer to have a high-speed, high-capacity traditional ...

One of the world’s largest producers of hard drives is giving up on 7200rpm hard drives for notebooks. Seagate will end production of 2.5 inch drives which spin at 7200 revolutions per minute. The ...

Company is going hybrid for laptop hard drives. Gone are the days of the pure magnetic hard disk drive with high rpm. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, ...

When it comes to storing data on your PC, you essentially have two options: a traditional Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or a Solid State Drive (SSD). Both store your operating system, apps, games, and files, ...

Just as we surmised, Seagate is taking the wraps off its new hybrid drive, with OEM shipments of the Momentus XT starting today. Hailed as the fastest 2.5-inch laptop drive on the planet, this here ...

I just replaced the 1TB 7200rpm hdd with in my mid 2012 non-retina MBP with a Crucial M500 960Gb SSD about a month ago and I was wondering about the issue of TRIM. I seen some arguments saying that ...

Fujitsu might have been the first to introduce a 2.5″ 7200rpm hard drive with 320GB capacity, but Hitachi is hot on their trail. Today, Hitachi announced that they too have a quick lil’-drive, the ...

Available in both 60GB and 120GB versions, SanDisk’s new solid state drive (SSD) is capable of opening files at twice the speed of current 7200rpm hard drives, SanDisk says. The SanDisk G3 SSDs can ...

A recent technical analysis conducted by storage provider Scality contrasts the power density of hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) under various scenarios. Contrary to prevailing ...