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Do-It-Yourself: Build a 96 GB SSD Drive for Less than $450

Solid-state drives are gaining more and more popularity among notebook users, but their high sale price makes regular users stick to older HDD drives. However, you can now enjoy the benefits of using flash-based storage while keeping the budget low with the DIY Century Compact Flash to SATA adapter.A similar approach...

23 April 2008
08:24 GMT

CeBIT 2008: Pretec Claim Their CF Cards Are Faster Than SanDisk's

You might remember our previous report on the colossal 48GB compact flash from Pretec. You might also remember that there weren't a lot of details about the new cards, which also include a 24GB (albeit speedier) version. Well, since our colleagues are at CeBIT 2008 in Hanover, we have some fresh information abo...

7 March 2008
05:34 GMT

Build Yourself a Cheap Solid-State Drive

Solid-state drives are not only sexy, faster or energy-aware, they are also expensive, and many times, getting such a drive will merely pierce through your budget. However, given the fact that everybody is talking about the new frenzy in the storage world, you might want to give it a try.While solid-state drives come...

15 February 2008
05:37 GMT

CES 2008: Pretec Sets New CF Storage Record with 48GB Card

Pretec, which was the first to offer the 8GB SDHC and 16GB CF in 2006, is once again making a sort of compact flash "fashion statement" by announcing the first 48GB CF (that's forty-eight gigs of storage space). As the company's press release puts it, this is as much the 12 DVDs or 69 compact discs. If 48G...

9 January 2008
13:53 GMT

New Ridata CF Cards to Support SMART

Except for speed, today's compact flash cards are not too different and that's a fact no matter if we're talking about big names in the industry or the little guys. Well, once in a while, along comes a company that manages to produce a ripple on the quiet waters of compact flash lake. Advanced Media, a...

3 January 2008
15:28 GMT

Ritek Rolls Out Family of Ultra High-Speed, Large-Sized Compact Flash (CF) Cards

Compact Flash (CF) memory cards are perhaps the second most important "must have" item in the arsenal of any serious photographer, since this is the format used by most high-end digital cameras currently available on the market. Moreover, having a speedy CF can prove to be quite an advantage for the photographer, and...

6 December 2007
09:11 GMT

How to Build Your Own SSD or RAID Array with just Four Compact Flash Memory Cards

Solid-state drives (or SSDs) are becoming increasingly popular nowadays, due to the fact that they provide relatively high storage capacities, as well as a very high degree of reliability and shock-resistance, especially for mobile or portable applications. However, said storage solutions are generally quite expensiv...

24 October 2007
14:36 GMT

iRex's New 2nd Edition of iLiad Is Too Cool...To Be Just A Book Reader!

Although iRex doesn't have Sony's or Bookeen's commercial muscles when it comes to selling cool e-Readers, it manages to launch a nice e-Book device that promises to compete with the big fish on the market. Therefore, the company recently launched the second edition of the successful iLiad, which is no...

17 September 2007
08:51 GMT

Kingston Goes 266x with Their Ultimate CF Cards

Yet another compact flash manufacturer revamps its professional lineup aimed at photographers who shoot a lot of bursts and thus require high transfer rates. This time it's Kingston's turn and the new products are the CompactFlash Ultimate 266x cards, with 45MB/sec. read rate and 40MB/sec. write rate."Photo...

24 July 2007
04:18 GMT

Compact Flash Cards Soon to Have SATA Powers

The guys behind the CompactFlash Association, or CFA if you prefer, have a new project on their minds, which could prove extremely useful to professional photographers. It's called the "CompactFlash card with a SATA interface" and as you might have deduced by now it combines the classic compact flash cards with ...

20 July 2007
04:21 GMT

Burn Some Rubber with SanDisk's New Ducati CF and SD

Do you think it's possible to combine memory cards and motorcycles? Well, I for one do not, but who am I to question the intricate ways of the technology gods?Sandisk has announced on the eve of the U.S. Grand Prix MotoGP race on July 22 at Laguna Seca in Monterey, California a speedy partnership with motorcycle...

19 July 2007
03:08 GMT

PQI Launches 226x 16GB CF and 256GB SSD Sata Drive

Power Quotient International, or PQI if you like, seems to be overrun with products. Aside from the Disk on Module we reported today, the company has just announced four new flash memory solutions aimed at a broad category of users, from photographers to businessmen. Two of the most important units are the high speed...

30 May 2007
04:40 GMT




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