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 ...

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Built around the IBM disc memory, a random access memory unit has a storage capacity of 5,000,000 digits. Any of these digits can be reached directly without scanning through ...

We've been watching the advance of solid state disk (SSD) as its ever improving price for capacity metrics make it an attractive replacement for relatively slow, spinning, mechanical disk media. Disk ...

In an effort to ease the transition to higher-capacity disc technology, Toshiba and Memory-Tech have developed a dual-layer disc that supports DVD and HD DVD formats. A smooth shift from the old ...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — From the time a story begins, you need the right guide. But in this one, Adam Jacobs of Lackawanna didn't even know it was him. "I didn't know the story whatsoever," Jacobs said.

Alternative long-term media include optical discs rated for 5 to 100 years, with M-DISC advertising a lifespan of 1,000 years; however, nobody alive today can verify this claim. Current prototypes of ...

It is often joked that the memory and computing power that enabled humans to land on the Moon compare poorly to those of a ...

John Sontag has seen the future—or at least Hewlett-Packard’s version of it. Sontag, vice president and director of Systems Research at HP Labs, has been in charge of the team developing “The Machine, ...

The most popular words of 2023 were recently released, with AI Large Language Model (LLM) unquestionably topping the list. As a frontrunner, ChatGPT also emerged as one of the international buzzwords ...