Handling data and information is very important so it's crucial for you to select the best data storage device possible. The perfect device should not only store your data but must also be capable of ...

Eric Brewer and colleagues from Google presented an interesting white paper at the Usenix FAST conference in Santa Clara, CA. They argue that with the growth in portable devices and services in the ...

Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage. Optical media is the ...

If you find yourself in the enviable position of getting new hardware for your gaming PC, it's worth taking the time to make sure you’re getting components that are going to serve you well. When it ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...

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When weighing the benefits of the newest player in the storage market, enterprises need to look at the increased performance vs. the relatively small storage size. Solid state disks based on flash ...

With HDD areal density growth at about 20-25% annually, down from 40% and higher in past years, manufacturers are looking for ways to increase the storage capacity that they can supply the ever ...

One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...

The MEMORY storage engine stores all data in memory (RAM), and is used for fast lookup of data. InnoDB supports a buffer pool ...