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 ...

Large among the current technology debates is whether or not flash memory will displace hard-disk drives (HDDs) as the foremost digital storage device. The hypothesis has received much attention from ...

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 ...

Combining the strengths of the on-disk and all-in-memory approaches to data management into one solution, eXtremeDB Fusion embedded database from McObject offers developers the flexibility to optimize ...

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 ...

Whether you have a hard drive or an SSD, your computer's RAM is its fastest storage medium by a wide margin. If you have more than 4GB of memory, you can turn this speed to your advantage, turning ...

If you’ve ever wished that you could emulate the performance of a solid-state drive without installing a new piece of hardware, consider creating a new virtual hard drive on your PC that runs purely ...