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French-owned global cloud computing company, OVH, has been in the news several times this year, from buying VMWare's vCloud Air business, to supporting start-ups, issuing an SSD and NVMe white paper and even holding its 2017 Cloud Summit as I type.

NAS vendor Qnap says its SSD cache technology provides the best return on investment for enterprises and less demanding users.

The most crucial upgrade today isn't your processor or RAM anymore, it's your storage device, so if you're still using an HDD with your desktop or laptop, why?

Western Digital still makes top-notch hard drives in ever larger capacities, and is now a true SSD competitor with its 64-layer 3D SSD tech making moves for market supremacy.

To simplify the SSD install process for consumers, a web app promises to make an SSD upgrade a simple process taking less than 15 minutes following the “straightforward instructions.”

Samsung’s SSD Number T5 is alive with faster USB-C, a faster transfer speed, a new colour scheme, two types of USB cable for greater flexibility and the superfast operation, lightweight construction and stylish design that makes Samsung SSDs stunningly superior drives.

Although competitors have been offering portable SSDs for some time, WD has finally ensured its plans to do the same have entered a solid state of reality.

With 2017 set “to be the year of all-flash storage”, the all-flash revolution is finally going strong in data centres, but I wish I could say the same for consumer PCs!

Memory and storage maker Crucial is proffering profitable advice on lowering software licence costs by making better use of your hardware, upgraded if needed, for long-term savings.

It’s not just Samsung that can boast of 3D NAND, but now the storage powerhouse that is WD and SanDisk, who’ll launch 64-layer 3D NAND SSDs in Q3 2017.

Intel’s epoch-making announcement of the new Optane 3D XPoint (pronounced crosspoint) memory includes its use as a type of SSD that can also be used as RAM.

Intel plans to reinvent computer memory and storage with what it calls Intel Optane 3D XPoint (pronounced crosspoint) that includes a type of SSD that can also be used as RAM.

WD has upped the capacity of its proven Ultrastar 12TB He12, a fourth generation, 3.5”, helium-filled hard disk drive, to 14TB and a 7.68TB NVMe, PCIe SSD for use in data centres.

What do you do when users complain about the lack of desktop/notebook speed? Do you fork out for a shiny new desktop or laptop or address the cause? Not surprisingly, systems administrators are divided on what they should do.

There is a lot of activity in the flash NAND camp (SSD) at present, all predicting the imminent demise of spinning hard disks (HDD) as storage mechanisms.

ANALYSIS Every electronic device relies on silicon – memory, storage, and compute. Whether that is a computer, mobile, TV, IoT, M2M, autonomous car, or a child’s toy, thanks to Moore’s Law advances in this field have enabled so much more.

Don’t tell Seagate or Western Digital but solid state storage (SSD) will eclipse spinning disks (HDD) within two years. Well, they probably know that and are already anticipating the curve.

Time is money. Boot time, app load times, searches, renderings, saves, copy, cut and paste are all an average of six times faster using SSD over a traditional hard disk.

The arrival of a review sample of the Crucial MX300 Limited Edition 750GB SSD coincided with an opportunity to use it to resurrect a mid-2012 13-inch MacBook Pro.

Crucial's new MX300 SSD family is based on Micron 3D TLC NAND technology.