The cheapest hard drives are now down to $0.03/GB. The cheapest flash chips now average about $0.80/GB on the spot market - or about 27x. Even if flash continues its 40% path, with disk at only 25 ...

The Hard-Disk Duopoly Is Really Cheap, But For How Long? Jun. 21, 2012 9:10 PM ET Western Digital Corporation (WDC) Stock EPS, IBM, STX, WDC, HTHIY 55 Comments. Shareholders Unite.

Cheap laptops use cheap hard disk drives, which are much slower than the solid state drives found in better computers. But Intel’s new Optane Memory changes that.

Colossus still moves in-demand data from hard disk (HDDs) to solid state disks (SSDs) and the new post states that doing so is “all the more pertinent today, as over the years, SSDs have gotten ...

The two major hard disk drive (HDD) makers, Seagate (STX) and Western Digital (WDC), have been perennial Magic Formula® Investing (MFI) stocks for years. Good ones, too. Both are up over 55% over ...

But even with how relatively cheap SSDs are currently, buying a hard disk drive instead of an SSD can still make sense—it just depends on what you’re using it for and what your PC setup is like.

While cloning your hard disk using Super Duper!, for example, is something that might happen once a day, with a RAID system, every bit of data that’s written to one disk is simultaneously ...

Will spinning discs always be with us? That's a question on many people's lips as the price of SSDs continues to tumble, and one I find myself asking as I'm in the process of reviewing a bunch of ...

I'm looking for a cheap hard disk to finish off a charity* build i'm doing with an old GX150. Anything 10gb or bigger will be fine, i'm just looking for a drive with some life left in it. I am ...