Formerly the name carbohydrate was used in chemistry for any compound with the formula C m (H 2 O) n. Following this definition, some chemists considered formaldehyde (CH 2 O) to be the simplest carbohydrate, while others claimed that title for glycolaldehyde.
Samsung unveils 2.5-inch 16TB SSD: The worldâs largest hard drive. Third-generation 3D V-NAND is now up to 48 TLC layers and 256Gbit per die. At the Flash Memory Summit in California, Samsung has unveiled what appears to be the world's largest hard driveâand somewhat surprisingly, it uses NAND flash chips rather than spinning platters.
A solid state drive or SSD can speed up the performance of a computer significantly, often more than what a faster processor (CPU) can. A hard disk drive or HDD is cheaper and offers more storage (500 GB to 1 TB are common) while SSD disks are more expensive and generally available in 64 GB to 256 GB configurations.