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Price War in the SSD Market

Large SSD makers have reportedly begun to slash prices on their products. The move is logically linked to the falling price of flash memory, but there may be something else involved. NAND flash memory prices will constantly go down once smaller lithography technologies start producing it and the production capacity ...

27 April 2012
11:18 GMT

Crucial M4 SSDs Receive 000F Firmware Update

If you're the owner of a Crucial SSD from the M4 series, you should rejoice, as new firmware is up for grabs and we also have it for free download. The new SSD firmware reaches now revision 000F and brings some generic improvements that will add both functionality and reliability to everyday use. With the M4 SS...

12 April 2012
09:59 GMT

Crucial Releases New Firmware Update for the M4 SSD Series

Memory company Crucial, a subsidiary of Micron Technology Inc., has announced today the availability of its new “000F” version of firmware for the well-known m4 series of SSDs, on its official website. The m4 series is the successor of the famous RealSSD C300, the first SSD to be fully SATA III capable. ...

12 April 2012
04:49 GMT

Crucial Releases Solid State Drive for SSD Caching

Since SSD caching seems to be so well looked upon, Crucial decided to release a product for this specific purpose, so out came the Crucial Adrenaline. SSD caching is a technology which, through a combination of hardware and software features, lets the OS consider an HDD and an SSD as being part of the same partitio...

8 March 2012
09:36 GMT

Crucial Delivers New Firmware for SSDsThat Used to Fail After 7 Months

It's truly a nice thing that the guys back at the Crucial headquarters are really listening to their customers, especially when it comes to customers complaining. We are happy to announce that the new Crucial M4 SSD firmware, version 0309, is now ready and he have it available for download. Users have reported ...

16 January 2012
09:04 GMT

Crucial Fixes m4 SSD BSOD Issues with New Firmware Update

Crucial has recently released a new firmware update, version 0309, for the Crucial m4-series SSDs that is said to resolve the BSOD issues faced by its drives after being used for a certain period of time.We first learned about the problems faced by the m4 solid state drives at the beginning of January when we spotted...

16 January 2012
04:40 GMT

Ballistix Sport, Tactical and Elite Memory Launched by Crucial

Crucial has already said its piece on the solid-state drive market so it was only a matter of time until it made a move on the RAM segment. With the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012) less than a day away, Crucial formally released its latest batch of memory products. They aren't just a...

9 January 2012
17:01 GMT

7mm Crucial m4 SSD Developed for Light Ultrathin PCs

One would think that a purposely thin storage unit would not get to have too great a capacity, but Crucial subverted these expectations with the m4 SSD series. Crucial has just sent out an announcement about its latest series of solid state drives. Given all the hype raised for Ultrabooks, one may be able to guess...

6 January 2012
17:01 GMT

Crucial Admits m4-Series SSDs Are Affected by Firmware Bug

After Intel, OCZ, Corsair and other SSD makers have faced reliability problems with their latest generation solid state drives, Crucial/Micron is now experiencing similar issues with its m4-series SSDs.A thread was started on the Crucial forums at the end of December 2011 regarding these issues and so far has gathere...

6 January 2012
16:21 GMT

Crucial Adrenaline Solid State Cache Solution Upgrades Any PC

People may not be particularly enthusiastic about changing their storage unit, or upgrading to an SSD, but Crucial thinks it has found a suitable compromise. SSD caching is a method of improving performance that has existed for a while. Basically, with the right software, an SSD can be allowed to automatically sto...

5 January 2012
09:49 GMT

8 GB Crucial DDR3 from Lexar Media Released

Lexar Media came forth and issued an official press announcement in which it reveals that both its desktop and notebook memory lines have received an update in the shape of the Crucial 8GB DDR3-1333MHz memory.Lexar Media has been making and selling memory products for desktops and laptops ever since it appeared.Its ...

23 August 2011
10:15 GMT

Crucial Intros Ballistix Tactical and Ballistix Elite Memory Lines

In the third quarter of this year, Crucial plans to update its product portfolio with two new lines of DDR2 and DDR3 memory that address the needs of a broad range of users including enthusiasts, gamers and overclockers.The new product lines are called Ballistix Tactical and Ballistix Elite, and they both feature a ...

21 June 2011
10:16 GMT

Crucial Releases Firmware Update for m4 SSDs

Crucial has just released a new firmware update for the popular m4/C400 solid state drive series which should bring improved compatibility as well as better performance when used together certain host systems.According to the company, this is a recommended but not required firmware update and primarily targets users ...

20 June 2011
05:52 GMT

Crucial 16 GB Memory Modules Up and About

Being the world-known maker of memory products that it is, Crucial figured it was high time it gave something to the server market, so it went ahead and created a Very Low Profile (VLP) high-capacity module.Crucial memory has been created before, but, as always, there is room for more products and also new concepts,...

25 May 2011
05:39 GMT

Crucial Releases New Firmware for C300 SSDs to Remove Stuttering Issues

Crucial has just released a new firmware version for its popular RealSSD C300 series of solid state drives that is said to offer better product reliability as well as better performance since it resolves the stuttering issues experienced by some of its users. The new firmware carries the 0007 designation and repla...

27 April 2011
05:39 GMT

Crucial m4 SSDs Are SATA 6.0 Gbps Models Based on 25nm

It looks like more and more companies are moving on to better and newer semiconductor manufacturing processors, Crucial being one of them, as revealed by its most recent announcement.That solid state drives have started to use the 2xnm manufacturing processes is not exactly news in and of itself.Actually, Intel and ...

26 April 2011
09:28 GMT

Crucial Makes the Prices of the m4/RealSSD C400 Drives Official

After what can only be described as a long wait, Crucial has finally made the prices of its m4 solid state disks (also known as the Micron RealSSD C400) official and these closely resemble the cost of the company's previous SSD models while it offers faster sequential transfer speeds. Right now, Crucial has o...

6 April 2011
03:55 GMT

Lexar Media Officially Launches Crucial Ballistix Sport Memory

On a market that has slowed to a crawl in terms of new product launches, Lexar Media decided to grace its customers with a new collection of memory products for both Intel and AMD processing platforms.Lexar Media revealed various memory products over time so it stands to reason that it would keep doing the same for ...

29 March 2011
11:12 GMT

Crucial/Micron C400 Series SSDs Are Now Available for Purchase

Micron's RealSSD C400 series of solid state drives has been keenly awaited by many computer hardware enthusiasts looking for a high performance storage disk, and the wait is now over as the first drives have already been listed and are available for purchase. Announced at the beginning of January, the Micron ...

18 March 2011
08:55 GMT

Crucial Intros New BOM-Controlled DDR3 RDIMM Server Memory

Crucial has just announced the introduction of a new series of BOM-controlled RDIMM server memory modules that are destined to be used by large enterprise clients and that should help reduce the frequency of memory qualifications. BOM stands for Bill of Material and means that, throughout the life of the product, ...

17 March 2011
10:19 GMT

Lexar Ballistix Tracer Memory Has Customizable LED Lights

Lexar Media's latest Crucial-branded memory products might just end up gaining most of the attention given to them thanks not to their actual specs, but because of their unusual led lighting.It seems that Crucial is paying special attention to those enthusiasts that like their systems to be colorful on the insi...

6 January 2011
10:18 GMT

Crucial Adds Thermal Sensors to its Ballistix Memory Line

There comes a time in every products life cycle when manufacturers have to start adding new features in order to differentiate themselves from the competition, the DRAM industry being in this situation for quite some time now, Crucial just announcing they have added thermal sensors to their Ballistix line of memory.F...

9 December 2010
07:42 GMT

Lexar Media Crucial RealSSD C300 Now Supports SATA 6.0 Gbps

While OCZ adopted the new SandForce controller chips in order to create SATA 6.0 Gbps-compatible solid state drives, Lexar Media went for a different chips when it created its new RealSSD C300 models.The storage solution developer came forth and issued a press release in which it introduces three new models for the ...

8 October 2010
02:25 GMT

Lexar Media Unveils Crucial-Branded Notebook 1,333MHz DDR3

The past two months have been literally filled to the brim with announcements of new, high-performance components, not just central processors and graphics cards but also high-speed memory solutions of 2,500MHz and beyond. However, there hasn't been nearly as much movement on the mobile PC segment, even though d...

11 May 2010
11:00 GMT

Lexar Media Enables 144GB of Memory on Intel Xeon Servers

While most manufacturers of motherboards, graphics cards and memory kits have their hands full with making hardware compatible and especially capable when combined with the new six-core CPUs and DirectX 11 graphics cards, Lexar Media is more focused on the enterprise market. In fact, the company has been working on a...

27 April 2010
04:20 GMT

Lexar Intros Intel Xeon 5600-Validated Crucial DDR3L

Intel has just officially launched its latest series of server processors, known as the Xeon 5600, which is made up of a number of quad-core and six-core CPUs that will enable new performance levels for servers and data centers. Now, in the wake of this announcement, Lexar has emerged claiming that it has developed a...

16 March 2010
09:34 GMT

6.0Gbps Lexar Crucial RealSSDs C300 Start Shipping

USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0Gbps are the two interfaces that have seen the most attention over the past few months, as they boast significant improvements to data-transfer rates compared with their predecessors. Of course, regardless of how fast they are, these interfaces will only have meaning when paired with storage techn...

26 February 2010
04:17 GMT

Micron's Crucial-Branded SSDs Almost Out

Micron announced its Crucial-branded C300 solid state drives back in early December, when it claimed that its SSDs would be able to reach read and write speeds of 355MBps and 215MBps, respectively, thanks to their compatibility with the SATA 6Gbps interface. More recently, the RealSSD C300 scored quite big when a rev...

4 February 2010
05:33 GMT

Lexar Reveals Crucial High-Capacity 4GB DDR3

Power users now have what they need to max out their systems, whether they are powered by Intel Core i5 or Core i7 processors or Advanced Micro Devices AM3 central processing units. The Crucial memory modules are the latest Crucial-branded products developed by Lexar and are completely compatible with 64-bit operatin...

2 December 2009
08:30 GMT

Lexar Announces DDR3 Memory Kits for Intel's 'Calpella'

Coming to provide support for Intel's latest generation of mobile processors, Lexar Media has announced today that it launched the Crucial DDR3-1333MHz notebook memory modules. Available in capacities of 1GB and 2GB, these new modules have been specifically designed to support Intel's new Core i7 mobile pro...

24 September 2009
05:58 GMT

Lexar Rolls Out New Lynnfield-Ready DDR3 Modules

Closely following in the footsteps of Kingston Memory, Lexar Media announced today the availability of its new Crucial DDR3-1333MHz (PC3-1600) 1GB and 2GB ECC and non-ECC UDIMM memory modules. The introduction of the new modules is tightly connected to the official debut of Intel's new generation of desktop proc...

8 September 2009
10:14 GMT

Lexar Announces the Speedy Crucial M225 SSD

The market for Flash-based storage solutions, also known as Solid State Drives, has become ever more interesting, as technology advances and provides consumers with faster, higher-performance and more affordable storage solutions. On that note, Lexar Media, a leading vendor of memory products, has just announced an u...

20 July 2009
08:32 GMT

Lexar to Introduce Crucial DDR2 FBDIMM Memory Kits

Memory manufacturer Lexar Media has just announced the availability of its new memory offering, comprised of Crucial 800MHz fully buffered DIMM (FBDIMM) memory modules. The kits are available in sizes of GB, 4GB and 8GB, and are the perfect companion for the newly-released Skulltrail gaming platform from Intel.The Cr...

21 February 2008
04:27 GMT

Lexar to Release New Crucial Solid-State Drives

Lexar announced a new line of solid-state drives, an improved version of their successful Crucial series. The drives are more energy-aware and offer more flexibility in operation than the classical hard-disk drives. The Crucial solid-state drives will be available in two flavors: the 32 GB and the 64 GB versions, dep...

3 January 2008
02:53 GMT

Crucial Ballistix Memories Go Like Crazy

One of the many reasons that Crucial Technology is recognized for is its Ballistix and Ballistix Tracer memory modules. They have breached the Gigahertz barrier with their new line of DDR2 products, which now run at 1066MHz.But alongside these modules, Crucial is also responsible for most of the memory modules you ha...

11 April 2007
06:56 GMT


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