The days of the spinning disk hard drive seem to be numbered as Intel Tuesday joined the growing field of companies offering solid state flash memory drives that claim to be faster, quieter and more ...

Fountain Valley-based Kingston Technology Co., the top maker of memory for PCs and consumer devices, is set to start selling flash memory-based drives. The company is set to make what’s called solid ...

Micron Technology believes it's only a matter of time before solid-state flash-memory drives used today for storage in digital cameras and MP3 players become an alternative to disk drives in the data ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. SanDisk wants to replace the hard drive in notebooks ...

One-inch drives are being munched by flash memory. 1.8-inchers seem too big. Could 1.3-inchers be just right? Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research ...

Santa Ana’s STEC Inc., a maker of flash memory drives for industrial uses, is being sued by the top maker of disk drives, Seagate Technology LLC. Scotts Valley-based Seagate along with its ...

Hard-drive manufacturers are contemplating a new-size hard drive to counter the challenge presented by flash memory. Drives with platters measuring 1.3 inches in diameter are being discussed, ...