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Terms like hard disk, drive, partition, and image are often confusing. Knowing the difference saves time and avoids errors ...

Whether you have a hard drive or an SSD, your computer's RAM is its fastest storage medium by a wide margin. If you have more than 4GB of memory, you can turn this speed to your advantage, turning ...

Jim Gray, a man who has contributed greatly to technology over the past 40 years, is credited with saying that memory is the new disk and disk is the new tape. With the proliferation of "real-time ...

HP Labs’ “Machine” dissolves the difference between disk and memory Memristor technology promises a world where RAM never forgets—and is everywhere.

Disk Cleanup vs. Storage Sense The Disk Cleanup utility has been built into Windows since Windows 98 and allows you to free up space by deleting unneeded system related files.

McObject’s eXtremeDB Fusion melds the strengths of the on-disk and all-in-memory methods of data management to allow developers to meet their specific application needs.

Guest Speedy access to databases has become problematic, so much so that hard disks, and even the faster solid-state disks, can’t keep up.