A misleading term for "disk storage." Because storage on disk is permanent until intentionally erased, in the past, some vendors referred to disk storage as disk memory. To add to the confusion, the ...

"Memory is the new disk," Jim Gray liked to say. The database pioneer died in 2007 after he was lost at sea, but like so much of the man, his words about memory and disk live on. Fred Holahan, the ...

Whether you have a hard drive or an SSD, your computer's RAM is its fastest storage medium by a wide margin. If you have more than 4GB of memory, you can turn this speed to your advantage, turning ...

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in ...

The disk cache in OS X can sometimes use a fair amount of the system's RAM, and clearing it can help you figure out how much RAM your applications and system processes are using. Topher, an avid Mac ...

McObject’s eXtremeDB Fusion melds the strengths of the on-disk and all-in-memory methods of data management to allow developers to meet their specific application needs. Combining the strengths of the ...

Q: Is it still necessary to use Disk Cleanup if I enable Storage Sense in Windows 10? A: Maintaining a computer isn’t something most users think about, but it’s just as important as it is for your car ...