Nowadays hard drives are all about how much data you can shove on to them and how fast you can do so. And this soon-to-be announced Phase-Change memory is expected to up the ante quite a bit. Students from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering are getting ready to show off their new type of SSD that they have nicknamed, “Moneta”. But Moneta isn’t just a regular SSD. Instead it’s a Phase-Change memory...

When it comes down to choosing storage for your PC the mechanical drives score top marks for capacity and price but are let down in other areas such as stability & read/write speeds. But the SSD has taken the lead on the speed factor, and now Buffalo along with others has made the switch to Solid State memory. Buffalo’s first jump into the SSD market is a bit of a monster, they have produced a 256GB 2.5″ drive that has a...

USB 3.0 is fast. Faster than standard 7200 RPM disks can handle. So how do you make external storage faster to better fill up the transfer pipe? By putting an SSD inside. As expected, these USB 3.0 SSDs are both costly and small, compared to your normal USB 3.0 disks. You’re getting a 1.8-inch drive in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB sizes for £170, £300and £700, respectively. Normal folks that only need external backup of their photos...

It’s a new world record, this time in the “smallest SSD” category. Available in 4GB – 64GB capacities, SanDisk’s integrated “iSSD” is destined for tablets and really, really slim laptops. With a 160MB per second read time and 100MB per second write time, the iSSD doesn’t exactly compromise on speed for slinkiness—it weighs less than one gram, and measures 16mm x 20mm x 1.85mm. I’m...