(See our roundups of the best Windows backup software and best online backup for more on that.) Solid-state drives are everywhere these days and are the most common type of storage in laptops and ...

Solid-state drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) offers several benefits over a hard drive. For one, SSDs are much faster when saving information to the drive, as well as accessing data from it.

External solid-state drives (SSD) have firmly taken over from portable hard disk drives as the preferred means of PC storage, offering far better reliability, performance, and portability than ...

Find the right backup drive for your storage needs. By Jim Galbraith. ... These hard drives aren’t as fast as solid state drives, but they offer much higher capacities and lower prices.

IT execs explain their moves to solid-state storage. news. Aug 6, 2012 11 mins. ... Fibre Channel-attached array cut backup time from nearly two hours to 20 minutes, an 83% reduction.

When a traditional hard drive doesn’t offer enough bandwidth to meet your needs, many users turn to solid state disks, or SSDs. These storage devices are built using memory chips. The downside ...

Amptricity has announced what it says is the first solid-state battery for home energy storage. The company plans to deliver its first solid-state energy storage systems of up to 4 GWh or up to ...