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 report on Ars Technica highlights DTS, a Japanese company that aims to create an efficient and affordable hybrid hard disk. Traditionally -- though the word is used lightly since this is all still ...

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 ...