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...

LaCie has decided to take advantage of the increasing size of hard drives and has updated both its 2big and d2 external USB drive products. For those who need a lot of storage, but don’t want to go down the route of creating a homemade 70TB storage array, the 2big USB 3.0 unit is for you. Utilizing two of the latest 3TB hard drives it offers 6TB of storage. Not only that, but because this is two drives in parallel LaCie is also...

The amount of space needed to fit a decent amount of storage continues to fall and Verbatim has created the smallest USB 2.0 flash drive I have yet seen. It’s called the Store ‘n’ Go Netbook USB drive and manages to offer 8GB, 16GB, or even 32GB of storage in a drive that protrudes just 5mm when inserted. The Netbook in the name is relevant as you can just slot this into a netbook or laptop and forget its there. Use it as a...

Most mobile devices today use NAND flash memory. It’s fast! But ReRAM—a joint project of Sharp and Elipa—promises to be 10,000 times faster. And they say they can commercialize it by 2013. What’s that mean for you? For starters, tablets and phones that can download a full HD movie in a matter of seconds. But almost more importantly, practically zero power consumption when the device is in standby mode. ReRAM (Resistive ...