A misleading term for "disk storage." Because storage on disk is permanent until intentionally erased, in the past, some vendors referred to disk storage as disk memory. To add to the confusion, the ...

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Built around the IBM disc memory, a random access memory unit has a storage capacity of 5,000,000 digits. Any of these digits can be reached directly without scanning through ...

In an effort to ease the transition to higher-capacity disc technology, Toshiba and Memory-Tech have developed a dual-layer disc that supports DVD and HD DVD formats. A smooth shift from the old ...

Today, a paper-thin, magnetic-memory disk is a commercial reality. Just six months ago, the developmental ancestor of this flexible-disk memory made its debut at the Eastern Joint Computer Conference ...

Save your expensive Gen 5 drive from burnout with a cheap scratch disk ...

Why it matters: A RAM drive is traditionally conceived as a block of volatile memory "formatted" to be used as a secondary storage disk drive. RAM disks are extremely fast compared to HDDs or even ...