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Toshiba gained recognition during a competition recently held in Japan, by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy from the Energy Conservation Center, Japan (ECCJ).
The agency conducted some tests to see which solid state drives really excelled at power saving, and the results led to Toshiba's MKx001GRZB ... |
14 February 2012
11:00 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... |
13 February 2012
14:01 GMT |
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GeIL, a company that is well known to PC enthusiasts thanks to its high-performance DDR3 memory series, has recently unveiled that later this year the company plans to enter the ever more popular SSD market.
The company plans to introduce two such product ranges later in 2012, dubbed S2 and Zenith.
GeIL’s S2... |
13 February 2012
05:29 GMT |
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During the last couple of years, the popularity of Single-level Cell NAND Flash has declined to the point that this sort of memory is pretty much confined to rugged small-capacity SSDs, but Hitachi GST is set to revive SLC NAND with its recently announced Ultrastar SSD400S.B enterprise solid state drives.
Initially... |
8 February 2012
08:01 GMT |
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ATP Electronics, a company specialized in developing memory products for the embedded and industrial markets, has just announced a new series of ruggedized Single-level Cell (SLC) SSDs designed to operate in rough environments that would make most other solid state drives fail.
ATP’s new SSDs were released int... |
8 February 2012
05:42 GMT |
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CeBIT is still a bit far off, but companies that intend to attend it are already sending invitations, like the one that revealed part of what Patriot Memory would showcase.
Apparently, the company is getting ready to introduce three new product collections at the event in Hannover, Germany.
The Wildfire Pro and ... |
7 February 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Verbatim has reportedly begun sending out shipments of its latest solid state drives designed with support for the SATA III interface, otherwise known as SATA 6.0 Gbps.
The drives now selling in Europe have capacities of 120 GB and 240 GB and, to take advantage of the bandwidth provided by SATA III, rely on SandForc... |
7 February 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Rumors regarding Intel’s plans to utilize SandForce SATA 6Gbps controllers for their high-performance solid state drives have turned out to be true, the chip maker’s 520 SSDs being the first drives to go this route.
Launched just earlier today, the 520 SSD series comprises so far five models with capacit... |
7 February 2012
02:54 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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So far, Transcend enjoyed only limited success in the solid state drive market, but recently the company decided to try its luck yet again with a new series of SATA 6Gbps SSDs based on SandForce’s second generation controllers.
The new drives were released in the SSD720 series and, initially, the range will ... |
3 February 2012
09:32 GMT |
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PNY is almost ready to start shipping a new series of solid state drives, one that uses SandForce controllers and MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory.
The line is called Optima Pro and is made of two members with capacities of 120 GB and 240 GB, respectively.
The SandForce SF-2582 controller is what makes thei... |
2 February 2012
10:23 GMT |
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Wanting to upgrade to an SSD, but the high prices associated with these drives keep pushing you away? Newegg has a deal on the 80GB 320 Series SSD which might be just what you’ve been waiting for.
For a limited time, the retailer will offer Intel’s drive for the low price of $69.99 (about 53 EUR) with fr... |
2 February 2012
09:29 GMT |
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Chinese solid state drive maker RunCore has just announced the introduction of a new series of solid SSDs based on the SATA 6Gbps SandForce controllers, which the company claims were specially tuned for delivering optimized performance.
The new drives were released into the Pro-V MAX series and initially the range w... |
2 February 2012
03:57 GMT |
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Fujitsu has not put much effort into entering the solid state drive market, but that is set to change as the company finds it cannot go against the flow of time. Fujitsu deals in a lot of things, but solid state drives weren't among them until recently, or at least they weren't an even remotely relevant p... |
1 February 2012
08:14 GMT |
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Hardware vendor Other World Computing (OWC) is launching its Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSD upgrade for MacBook Air users. The kit can increase your storage capacity to 480GB with 6G (6Gb/s) and 3G data rate capabilities.
The Aura Pro modules are said to deliver higher performance, functionality, and reliability th... |
30 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Anyone wondering what OWC was up to may be interested in learning that the company has completed its latest batch of enterprise solid state drives, the Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G series.
Other World Computing may be known for its habit of launching storage solutions for Apple products, but that doesn't mean it ... |
30 January 2012
06:03 GMT |
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People living in metropolitan areas may be interested in the Clip Attache USB flash drives, or so PNY believes.
Available in capacities of 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB, the drives have colorful metallic cases illustrated with one of four floral designs.
Additionally, the back plate is designed like a hook, so that t... |
26 January 2012
04:58 GMT |
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Those who believe that SSD sales will be lackluster have already said their piece, so SanDisk is taking its turn at painting a brighter picture for the storage devices.
SanDisk is one of the primary suppliers of solid state drives around the world, so it makes sense that it would look at its future in the most opti... |
26 January 2012
03:53 GMT |
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Western Digital is not nearly as convinced as NAND Flash storage makers that the ultrabook market will greatly boost SSD sales. Western Digital reportedly stated, during the most recent conference call with financial analysts, that solid state drives sales wouldn't rise nearly as fast as some believed. One w... |
25 January 2012
05:02 GMT |
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If anyone was skeptical about the benefits of firmware updates, OCZ will probably shatter any unfortunate preconceptions with the new enhanced IOPS firmware (v1.13) for the Octane SATA 3.0 Series SSDs.Long story short, the update, after applied to all octane SATA 6.0 Gbps solid state drives, improves the IOPS perform... |
24 January 2012
10:49 GMT |
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OCZ comes with a new firmware update for the Octane SSD series, boasting increased performance and promising a significant enhancement for all users. The Octane SSD firmware reaches now version 1.13 and can be updated using OCZ's proprietary toolbox 3.02.01 RC6. In order to update the Octane firmware, users must... |
24 January 2012
10:04 GMT |
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Just a couple of days after we learned that updating 830-series SSDs to Samsung’s latest firmware could make such drives undetectable to the system, the outfit released a new FW to solve these issues.
The new firmware release, which is dubbed CXM03B1Q, is pretty much identical to the previous version, but acco... |
24 January 2012
09:43 GMT |
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Samsung dishes out new firmware for the (so far) three members of the SSD family: the 830 series, with 2 desktop-oriented drives and one for notebook use.
The greatest improvement in version CXM03B1Q is the increased stability and compatibility of the firmware update tool. Since users have reported drive detection i... |
24 January 2012
09:37 GMT |
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In a move that is quite common on the worldwide IT industry, and every other industry really, Micron has announced that it is taking over ownership of Virtensys.
Micron already has an extensive collection of solid state drive storage units, but its enterprise collection could do with some enhancements.
It has bee... |
23 January 2012
04:39 GMT |
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Samsung has managed to build quite a reputation for itself in the SSD industry thanks to its high-quality drives that seemed to be far more reliable than their SandForce-based counterparts, but recently even Samsung has run into some troubles with its SSDs.These were uncovered just recently by a user of the Overclock... |
20 January 2012
15:11 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 Kage K1 SATA SSD, PureSilicon also delivered a storage unit designed with the USB 3.0 interface.The so-called Kage K1 USB drive can transfer data at up to 400 MB/s and has a thickness of just 4.5mm (0.17 inches).More precisely, it measures 76.75 mm x 22 mm x 4.5 mm (3.02 x 0.86 x 0.17 inches).Tha... |
18 January 2012
15:21 GMT |
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PureSilicon has just made the formal introduction of the Kage K1 SATA solid state drive series, one that is supposed to serve enterprise applications.
The overall looks of the Kage K1 SATA solid state drive may not be enough to guess that the new storage device is aimed at enterprise applications instead of consume... |
18 January 2012
12:19 GMT |
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It looks like a new solid state drive controller has been completed, one that is described by its inventors as being a fair bit ahead of its time.
The ones that pooled their resources for the creation of a new SSD controller chip are Bitmicro Networks and Global Unichip Corporation (GUC).
Dubbed TALINO-DE, the con... |
18 January 2012
03:38 GMT |
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One would think that Advanced Micro Devices would only look at storage offerings from the best-known corporations but, apparently, that is not the case.
Though WhipTail doesn't actually make the news as often as SanDisk, Lexar or OCZ (to name a few), it does not exactly make a point of offering consumer produc... |
17 January 2012
09:52 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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The number of ultra-thin solid state drives announced has increased in the last few weeks together with the introduction of the second wave of Ultrabooks we are witnessing now, and RunCore is the latest company to offer such a solution with its new 7mm Pro V Ultra SSD.RunCore’s new solid state drive series will... |
12 January 2012
09:24 GMT |
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Looks like OCZ is trying to expand its technological portfolio, having just bought a developer of virtualization software and hardware solutions, as well as file caching.
OCZ has been very active on the market of NAND Flash-based storage products.
Even during the ongoing CES (Consumer Electronics Show, 2012), it ... |
12 January 2012
08:38 GMT |
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Corsair is not about to let Intel be the only company with SSD caching solutions (Rapid Storage technology), so it has revealed the Accelerator solid state drives. Corsair's new SATA II SSDs (SATA 3.0 Gbps) operate at read and write speeds of up to 280MB/s and 270MB/s, respectively. Also, there are three capa... |
12 January 2012
03:06 GMT |
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Even though CES is an event dedicated to consumer electronics, OCZ did not shy away from bringing along some enterprise-centric products. OCZ has officially released the Z-Drive R5 (PCI-E model), Z-Drive R4 (also PCI-E model) and the Chiron (SATA) solid state drives. They are all aimed at the enterprise sector and... |
11 January 2012
04:35 GMT |
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Verbatim has made the official introduction of its latest solid state drive series, as well as upgrade kits for those who want to improve their PCs without much hassle regarding file transference.
Verbatim has just announced some new SATA II (SATA 3.0 Gbps) and SATA III (SATA 6.0 Gbps) solid state drives.
The form... |
10 January 2012
14:51 GMT |
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At this year’s CES fair, Plextor has announced the introduction of a new series of solid state drives dubbed the M3 Pro that improve upon the specs of the M3 SSD series introed by the company in the first part of December 2011.
The M3 Pro series SSDs use the regular 2.5-inch form factor, but with a new 7mm thi... |
10 January 2012
10:56 GMT |
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A combination of global factors is going to significantly encourage shipments of solid state drives throughout the year 2012. The International Data Corporation (IDC) regularly publishes reports and research papers regarding marketing situations and expectations. Its latest announcement deals with the market of so... |
10 January 2012
02:38 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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Mobile devices may already be able to go into idle states and, thus, consume less energy, but the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) didn't think it was enough.
Thus it developed the SATA DevSleep, a feature that reduces the power consumption of SATA storage drives items.
Basically, DevSleep allow... |
6 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Here goes a new firmware version for two or Corsair's SSD series, the Force GT and Series 3. The new firmware reaches version 1.3.3 and addresses some errors which occurred with the previous version in certain situations.
The new Corsair firmware can be updated using the manufacturer's toolbox and no issue... |
6 January 2012
06:05 GMT |
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Looks like Samsung can add another point to the data security score sheet.
Word just came in about the PM810 solid state drive (SSD) and how it got validated under the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP).
It has been found compliant with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 data security ... |
5 January 2012
10:37 GMT |
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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 |
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After being introduced at the beginning of October 2011, OCZ has now announced that its mSATA Deneva 2 SSDs have gained certification for being used together with Intel’s Smart Response Technology in future Ultrabook models.For those of you who aren’t up to date with Intel’s Smart Reponse technology... |
4 January 2012
11:00 GMT |
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People dropping by the Galaxy website or roaming online shops may stumble upon a product that definitely doesn't fit in with the company's typical business practices.
Word just got out that Galaxy has completed a new set of solid state drives.
The Razor, covered here, was the first and marked the outfit... |
29 December 2011
08:41 GMT |
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At next year’s CES fair, Chinese SSD marker RunCore plans to introduce three new series of solid state drives that cover a wide range of market segments, starting with Ultrabooks and going to high-performance desktops.The most advanced of these new SSDs will be released into the Xapear series, and RunCore state... |
29 December 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Orico certainly isn’t known in the hardware market as an SSD maker, but the company has recently started to expand its product portfolio and came up with its own series solid state drives, dubbed the HM01, which is based on Marvell’s SATA 6 Gbps controllers.The HM01 series SSDs use the regular 2.5-inch fo... |
28 December 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Zalman is doing what many other companies did when they got into the SSD game, namely call on the services of a certain, very powerful and very well known series of controllers.
Zalman used to be a company that mainly dealt in cooling products but, like so many others, it expanded its business outlets.
In this ins... |
28 December 2011
03:32 GMT |
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