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 ...

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, ...

Storage and memory are the two major holding areas for programs and data in a computer, tablet or smartphone, and their interplay is the fundamental architecture of computer processing. Unfortunately, ...

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 ...

The disk cache in OS X can sometimes use a fair amount of the system's RAM, and clearing it can help you figure out how much RAM your applications and system processes are using. Topher, an avid Mac ...

Computer encryption technologies have all relied on one key assumption that RAM (Random Access Memory) is volatile and that all content is lost when power is lost. That key assumption is now being ...