Storage comprises hard drives and solid state drives ... Solid state storage (SSDs and USB drives) uses "flash memory chips," a poorly conceived name for storage chips because it helps to confuse ...

The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from ... everyone would be using SSDs and hard-disk drives (HDDs) would be relegated to ...

See portable hard drive. (2) A small solid state storage ... rendered writable CDs and DVDs obsolete. See flash memory. USB drives are used for auxiliary storage and backup as well as data ...

"Alternatives are being sought to hard disk drives, solid-state drives and flash memory which are constrained by data density limits -- or the amount of information they can store in a particular ...