While every component in a PC has a role to play, today, we are talking about RAM and Hard Drive. While RAM is often termed as Memory, Hard Drive is termed as Storage – and even with words apart, it ...

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 ...

A storage drive simulated in memory (RAM). Also called a "virtual disk," "virtual hard drive" or "emulated disk" (e-disk), selected files are copied from storage to the RAM disk in order to speed up ...

Jim Handy of Objective Analysis and I recently finished a white paper on The Future of Low-Latency Memory and presented a few slides related to that white paper at the SNIA Persistent Memory and ...

I've frequently written in the past, both online and in print, about the differing cost-per-bit and floor cost dynamics of hard drives and flash memory. In summary, a hard drive is burdened by the ...