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The Chinese, snake-sounding company, SuperSSpeed, is reportedly preparing to introduce a SLC-based SSD using SandForce’s popular SF-2281 controller. This is something all computer enthusiasts have been waiting for, and the product range seems to be exactly targeted for that market range. SLC NAND fla... |
2 May 2012
08:39 GMT |
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Kingston reports that some of the solid state drives in the HyperX series, namely the SH100S3 series, had sometimes returned some errors and thus new firmware has been readied to correct and eliminate them.
Users who have ever experienced BSODs or temporary drive disappearance during various sleep modes are advised ... |
23 April 2012
10:36 GMT |
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This review we’re presenting today examines Kingston’s HyperX 3K 240GB SATA 3 SSD. This is a new SSD model from Kingston that claims to be a reliable and cheaper alternative to Kingston’s standard HyperX 240GB SSD, that we’ve tested two months ago. This new SSD uses the same controller as its... |
20 April 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Kingston's DataTraveler collection of USB flash drive units is fairly extensive, but the company didn't see any reason not to release yet another set.
The latest product line is called DataTraveler Elite 3.0 and, in spite of the name, it is actually supposed to be one of the more economical options out th... |
10 April 2012
13:41 GMT |
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California-based memory company Kingston has just announced its HyperX 3K SSD on its official website. This drive is a cheaper alternative to the well-known HyperX line of SSDs from Kingston, but the cost reduction comes at a later price. Budget gamers and PC enthusiasts will benefit from the lower price of Kingston... |
10 April 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Elpida may have gone into bankruptcy, but its subsidiary maker of DRAM needn't fall with it, especially since it gets funds from other companies too, like Powertech Technology.
Speaking of Powertech, the company has decided that it is no longer in its best interest to hold onto its stake in the manufacturer.
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27 March 2012
07:26 GMT |
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After how closely we monitored the dramatic decline in the DRAM market, and all the problems it caused, you'd think all companies involved would have had a rough time, but that doesn't appear to be true for Kingston.
According to a recent report from Digitimes, Kingston actually did well for itself on the... |
16 March 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Since Kingston is one of the leading names in the memory industry and has been setting a lot of standards during its existence, it was of course just a matter of time until the red-faced man was to be seen on SSDs.
Kingston brings forward no less than 4 large categories of SS drives, as follows: Consumer, Business, ... |
2 March 2012
09:46 GMT |
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Kingston has been making solid state drives for quite some time now, but with the launch of the SandForce-powered SATA 6Gbps HyperX SSD we are testing today the company has made its entrance into the high-performance storage market. The HyperX SSD is actually Kingston’s first SSD based on a SandForce co... |
18 February 2012
05:34 GMT |
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Kingston didn't officially say this yet, but rumors are roaming around that it will cut the prices of all its products made out of NAND Flash chips. That is to say, all Kingston USB flash drives, solid state drives (SSDs) and memory cards will end up cheaper by the end of the year (2012). Digitimes is the sou... |
4 February 2012
06:16 GMT |
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Over these last few years, Kingston has come out with quite an important number of secure USB Flash drives, but few of these are more advanced than the Data Traveler 4000-M that we are taking a look at today. The Data Traveler 4000-M is part of a new breed of secure USB drives that are not only FIPS (Federal Informa... |
26 January 2012
13:11 GMT |
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After releasing the HyperX SSD and the SSDNow KC100, Kingston has now added another SandForce SF-2281 powered solid state drive to its arsenal, the V+200 which targets users in search of a more affordable high-performance SSD. Until today’s announcement of the V+200, Kingston’s V+ series SSDs were based ... |
20 January 2012
04:02 GMT |
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When it released the DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0 Flash drive, Kingston said that its USB 3.0 dongle could offer SSD-like performance without the bulk of a regular solid state unit. We were so intrigued by these claims that we decided to take the drive for a spin to see how well it performs in the real world. The Da... |
16 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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After being available for Apple devices for more than half a year, Kingston has announced that the Wi-Drive wireless external SSD can now also be used with the popular 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet thanks to a new app downloadable for free from the Amazon Appstore. Kingston's Wi-Drive enables users to share the cont... |
13 January 2012
05:15 GMT |
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Since it wasn't about to miss out on the opportunity that CES gave it, Kingston came along and put several products on display.
Predictably, since the HyperX line of memory modules has brought it a lot of fame over the years, its exhibition includes new additions to the series.
VR-Zone reports three different... |
12 January 2012
05:18 GMT |
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Kingston figured this was as good a time as any to launch one of those average, albeit very tiny, flash drives that strove to neither awe nor shock their prospective buyers.
The DataTraveler Micro may be compact and colored a bright blue, and even has rubber on the outer body and a provision strap, but isn't al... |
13 December 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Only a few days after Corsair announced that it achieved a new DDR3 world record with their Dominator GTX6 memory series, Kingston with the help of the guys from Lab 501 took this WR to a whole new level surpassing the previous result with a cool 133MHz data rate.Softpedia was there during this world record attempt a... |
8 December 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Kingston’s HyperX lineup will grow with yet another product during CES 2012, which was just the star of a teaser picture published by the company on its Twitter account.Little is known about this product apart from what we can tell from this image, but from the look of it this seems to resemble a DDR3 memory mo... |
2 December 2011
04:48 GMT |
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In a move that might further cause memory products to get expensive again, Kingston is supposedly leaning towards buying large chip quantities from Elpida and Toshiba.
More precisely, Kingston could end up ordering memory chips, on a large scale, from those companies, so as to enable them to actually get their stoc... |
28 November 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Troubled times are upon the IT industry, or at least the storage segment, but Kingston thinks at least one type of storage device is in for good things starting next year, 2012.
The solid state drive market could reach its green pastures, so to speak, in about nine or ten months.
Though NAND Flash memory isn'... |
25 November 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Kingston's HyperX is a brand that is being applied to high-end products from all the categories it has approached, including RAM and solid state drives. Now, the company made its best flash drives, so it strapped that moniker on them too.
The new flash drive units that Kingston created were previewed a while a... |
18 November 2011
02:36 GMT |
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Here is something many people would probably love to do at home, even if just for audacity's sake, but it looks like it can actually be pulled off and still leave the SSD in working condition.
A couple of people fried and egg, live, on TV.
Normally, this wouldn't mean much, but then comes the part where ... |
15 November 2011
03:58 GMT |
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Intel's launch of a new high-end CPU, as always, opened the metaphorical floodgates on memory offerings, so Kingston, naturally, launched a big new DDR3 kit.
Kingston's new HyperX memory offer is made of more than one kit, though this isn't surprising, the same way it isn't surprising that the H... |
15 November 2011
03:20 GMT |
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There aren't many affordable solid state drives out there, and even the supposedly cheap ones cost a lot more than HDDs, but it isn't for lack of trying, as Kingston is attempting to show.
Kingston has made it something of a habit to release one or more new solid state drives on a weekly basis or so.
Thi... |
10 November 2011
04:49 GMT |
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Kingston has exercised its ability to not be surprising at all by once again coming forth and launching a DataTraveler flash drive, or two of them in this case. Not that releasing a new device of this sort is a bad thing to do, but Kingston does tend to launch DataTraveler drives on a fairly regular basis, borderin... |
27 October 2011
11:17 GMT |
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Kingston went into experimenter mode and created the urDrive application which does a variety of things to a flash drive, ultimately giving it a measure of autonomy and self-sufficiency. Instead of launching some new USB drive, Kingston developed a software program for those it already has. This urDrive applicati... |
25 October 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Flash drives may be common nowadays, but only a few of them can truly boast of offering high security features, like Kingston's newest addition to the DataTraveler series.
People who judge the DataTraveler flash drive series from Kingston to be a purely consumer-oriented, casual collection, based on sighting... |
29 September 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Kingston didn't want to let the week go by without some sort of product launch, so it expanded the DataTraveler collection of flash drive units with a model aimed at so-called road warriors.
After having said its piece on the memory card and SSD fronts, Kingston is now using the black and red color theme on ... |
21 September 2011
10:54 GMT |
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Memory maker Kingston was also present at this year's Intel Developer Forum where it showcased a pre-production sample of a 64GB quad-channel memory kit the company plans to release after Sandy Bridge-E hits the market.
The kit that was on display during the conference includes eight high-performance DDR3 mem... |
16 September 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Kingston has announced earlier today the introduction of the company's first business-equipped solid state drives based on the second-generation SandForce SSD processors with native support for the SATA 6Gbps interface.
The new drives were released into the KC100 series, which currently comprises three models... |
14 September 2011
05:07 GMT |
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Gamescom is well underway and Kingston is, unsurprisingly, present and accounted for, complete with a wide range of not just HyperX memory products, but also a number of flash products. Kingston, like various other companies, went over to Gamescom to show off an entire batch of products, memory and flash devices to... |
18 August 2011
04:31 GMT |
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There is much that can be said about the NAND Flash market segment, as can be discussed about a myriad of other things, but, this once, Kingston is taking its turn at the metaphorical microphone.Kingston is one of those IT companies that has a big stake in the semiconductor market, and this extends to both DRAM and ... |
12 August 2011
10:34 GMT |
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After just a few days ago Kingston announced the retail availability of the high-performance HyperX solid state drive, the unit has now been listed on Newegg, with prices starting at $269.99 US.So far, Kingston's SSD solutions were pretty successful in the low-end and mainstream market, but the HyperX marks the ... |
3 August 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Memory manufacturers are currently involved in a race to see who can supply overclockers with the fastest and highest quality DDR3 modules, and Kingston has recently announced that its HyperX memory has broken two world records.
The results were achieved using Kingston's fastest dual-channel memory kit to dat... |
2 August 2011
10:16 GMT |
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Kingston is already widely known as a maker of storage and memory product, and having just brought out the HyperX line of SandForce-based SSDs, the outfit decided to deliver another item, one that is more of an accessory than anything else.Kingston has a fairly solid collection of NAND Flassh-based storage products,... |
2 August 2011
04:53 GMT |
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Just as it has promised during the Computex 2011 fair, Kingston has recently started shipping the high-performance HyperX SSD, which has already made its way into retail stores across Japan.
So far, Kingston has been pretty successful in the low-end and mainstream solid state drive market, but the HyperX marks the ... |
1 August 2011
07:40 GMT |
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Coming to add to the already extensive line of DataTraveler storage devices, the DataTraveler 108 from Kingston Digital is ready to start its journey towards the homes of consumer based in Europe.Makers of storage solutions never really do seem to forget about any facet of the industry for long, even those that also... |
29 June 2011
11:05 GMT |
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For quite some time now memory makers have struggled to increase the frequencies of their desktop DIMMs to levels that were previously considered unattainable and recently this fight has moved into the mobile space, Kingston being the first company to announce an Intel XMP certified 2133MHz memory kit.
Armed with ... |
17 June 2011
02:53 GMT |
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It appears that the solid state drive market might just prove to be a lucrative venture for a certain maker of storage and memory devices, especially if NAND Flash memory chips get cheaper.The market of solid state drives has been on a steady rise ever since the first such storage units got released.Then, when the T... |
3 June 2011
06:04 GMT |
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Showcased for the first time at the beginning of the year during the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, Kingston's Wi-Drive, wireless storage device, has just been made official by the company and is compatible with a wide series of Apple devices.
Compared to the version that Kingston demonstrated at CES, the ne... |
2 June 2011
04:32 GMT |
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Kingston has been pretty successful in the value and mainstream SSD market, and now the company is looking into expanding its business into the enthusiast sector with the introduction of its first SandForce-based drive, the HyperX SSD.This new Kingston solid state drive uses the same SF-2281 controller as that found ... |
2 June 2011
02:46 GMT |
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Kingston is known for making all sorts of storage solutions, so it is no surprise that it would come out and reveal a new one for mobile devices, especially one with the high specifications implied by its rank on the Class rating system.When it comes to mobile devices, especially smartphones, storage space has to co... |
24 May 2011
07:57 GMT |
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Kingston has long been a maker of NAND Flash-based storage solutions, and it looks like this instance is one where its skills got put to use in the fashioning of a new series of USB 3.0 flash drives.Since every company on the IT market is always working on some new device or another, it was not surprising to learn t... |
19 May 2011
11:02 GMT |
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It appears that the embedded market is seeing some serious movement lately, as various companies are either unveiling new devices or, in the case of Kingston, preparing for increases in product demand.The embedded market may not get as much attention from the media as the consumer front does, but it is, nonetheless,... |
2 May 2011
05:48 GMT |
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DRAM memory might again start to get more expensive now that supply is expected to become strained, but prices are still very low, meaning that Kingston's newest memory products chose a fairly opportune moment to show up, as far as end-users go anyway.The new product series that Kingston prepared is one that go... |
26 April 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Kingston's DataTraveler brand is one that many different flash drives bear, and it seems that the latest to be sold under is is a model that features a particularly high level of data security.Flash drives come in a very wide variety, depending on not just their size, shape and capacity, but also on performance... |
19 April 2011
05:19 GMT |
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Kingston has just issued a firmware fix for their SDNow V100-series solid state drives as the company has identified a bug that prevented a small percentage of these units to get past the system's initial boot screen.
According to the company, the issue is caused by the SSD's firmware and can be simply r... |
28 March 2011
16:01 GMT |
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It seems that some movement can finally be seen on the IT market, as some new products are coming out, albeit not in as high a numbers as some might hope, with Kingston being one of the most recent to present a new invention.While the mobile industry is getting quite a healthy influx of new releases, what with CTIA ... |
22 March 2011
11:40 GMT |
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Although the world's economy has not really recorded its best period ever back in 2010, that hasn't stopped Kingston from recording one of its best years ever, the company achieving a record revenue last year.As most of you probably know, Kingston's been particularly active lately in the field of SSDs,... |
15 March 2011
03:57 GMT |
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While some companies are unveiling new video controllers of utmost prowess, others, in this case Kingston, are showing off a different sort of advancement, namely an evolution in cooling efficiency for memory products.As end-users know, the IT market is packed full of all sorts of hardware, with each component type ... |
8 March 2011
05:06 GMT |
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