(2) A storage module made of flash memory chips. Flash disks have no mechanical platters or access arms, but the term "disk" is used because the data are accessed as if they were on a hard drive.

Silicon Valley pioneer Western Digital broke itself into two on Monday. And earlier this month, Honeywell announced plans to ...

The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from ... everyone would be using SSDs and hard-disk drives (HDDs) would be relegated to ...

Samsung's leadership in flash memory makes the FIT Plus a trustworthy drive to store your valuable data; It works through it all with a waterproof, shock-proof³, temperature-proof⁴, magnet ...

Western Digital and new CEO Irving Tan will focus on the hard drive business, while Sandisk under CEO David Goeckeler will ...

USB sticks or flash drives store data using NAND flash memory, in the form of binary values (zeros and ones) in memory cells. Interestingly, it is electrons trapped in a kind of “floating gate ...

The new 3D flash memory also ramps up density, with up to 332 memory layers, improving bit density by 59% over ...

See portable hard drive. (2) A small solid state storage ... rendered writable CDs and DVDs obsolete. See flash memory. USB drives are used for auxiliary storage and backup as well as data ...

Thumb drives and memory cards also use flash storage. Most laptops and desktops also use standard hard drives with magnetic ...