A new type of archival storage technology has been developed with the potential to store a petabyte of data on a CD-sized disc disk yet remain backward-compatible with existing CD and DVD technologies ...

Five years ago, Western Digital, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) storage technologies, doled out $19 billion in cash and stock for SanDisk and its solid state drive (SDD) product portfolio, giving ...

Start-up company hVault this week announced it plans to begin shipping a holographic disc drive, rack-mountable autoloader and robotic library later this year, offering archival storage that lasts at ...

China has made a huge stride in technology with the creation of a new optical disk that can hold a vast amount of data—up to a petabit. The innovation comes from the smart folks at the Shanghai ...

Some are predicting that solid state drives will take over the storage world, wiping out hard disk drives. When you take a closer look, however, it becomes apparent those predictions are premature.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. During recent prior year projections for digital storage and memory we have not talked much about digital storage using optical ...

Flash storage is increasingly important to the enterprise market, and analysts expect solid-state drives (SSDs) to largely replace spinning disks for enterprise systems, endpoints and consumer devices ...

The days are long past when many small businesses could get by with their files stored on desktops or one small server. In an era of PowerPoint presentations, videos and graphics files disk space ...

One new appliance is Idealstor&'s FrankeNAS, which is a disk-to-disk storage and backup device that takes backup tape out of the equation. The device uses hard disks both in a RAID array and in a ...

If you need to expand your Mac storage in a big way without breaking the bank, your best bet is with external hard drives. Here's everything you need to know about hard drives and enclosures to put ...

Blu-ray Disc (BD)- the next generation of optical discs for storing high-definition movies, photos and other digital content will have by far the highest capacity of any optical disc storage format – ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. For several years I have written a series of articles outlining my projections for various digital storage and non-volatile memory ...