Every time a tech product comes out, a high-ranking tech executive stands on stage and proudly announces that their “new” product has more RAM than ever before. Why does this matter, and why do they talk about it every year?

Solid-state drives use a special type of transistor which will retain a memory of being energized by the computer, even if the computer is powered off.

For the majority of recent computer history, if you had something to store, you were probably storing it on a hard disk drive.