The solid-state drive has arrived, but its prices are all over the map. Usually, but not always, higher-price SSDs use better controllers and larger cache memory.

Most notable are the size and cost of solid-state drives. My 80GB SSD cost a whopping $200, and if you need a lot of space for your music and other files, you'll be paying even more.

Here's the first ever test of the world's largest SSD, and yes, an even bigger 246TB SSD may well land before the end of 2025 With a 50% drop in production, the inventory of chips from Samsung ...

Drives fail. And no matter how many backups you have, losing a drive when you’re in the middle of working on something important—my namesake’s law—can be a real pain in the ass. Thankfully ...

Company is planning to bring out high-capacity solid-state drives to compete with SanDisk, Toshiba, and Samsung. Intel set to take leap in solid-state drives - CNET X ...

Prices on solid-state drives are dropping, and operating systems (particularly Windows 7) are beginning to take advantage of the potential higher speeds of SSDs, so it’s a good time to consider ...

If the SSD didn’t come with bundled software, or if it wasn’t any good, I suggest you shell out an extra $20 for Paragon Migrate OS to SSD.Yes, that’s a lot of money for a program you’ll ...

I spend a lot of time working with large video files. After filming, I save the video files in two places. I back up all the files to a relatively inexpensive traditional external hard drive.

Well, that depends on a lot factors, but if you were to walk into a store and buy a new SSD drive right now, it will probably last for up to 3,000 to 4,000 P/E cycles before giving up the ghost ...