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New SSDs with Lower Prices Could See Better Adoption

Solid-state drives are a great attraction to consumers, mainly due to their performance capabilities when compared with traditional spinning platter drives. It’s a common fact that SSDs attract users for the speed they offer at reading data, which is what PC users stress upon most often, yet the price tags...

12 December 2008
04:00 GMT

The Windows 7 Evolution to NAND-Flash Solid-State Disks (SSDs)

By tailoring Windows 7 to the evolution of hardware, Microsoft is not only preparing stronger support for parallel computing with the next generation of its Windows client, but it is also embracing the NAND-flash based solid-state storage devices (SSDs). At this year's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in ...

18 November 2008
04:17 GMT

Sandisk: SSDs Will Feature Higher Speed Rates in 2009

Sandisk announced today the introduction of a new flash file management system for solid state disk (SSD) drives. According to the company, the technology will allow for random write rates accelerations at a factor of up to 100x. Still, the net speed will only be leveraged four times in the short term, while the perf...

6 November 2008
06:17 GMT

A Cheap Alternative to Notebook SSDs from Sharkoon

Traditional hard disk drives face a fierce competition from solid state drives these days, and all seems to favor the SSD technology. The new storage solutions offer more reliability and robustness and are also able to provide more performance compared to the spinning platters. They operate in silence, output al...

4 November 2008
06:32 GMT

Seagate Might Attempt SanDisk Takeover

It's becoming pretty clear that SSDs represent the future of storage as we know it. This is the reason why most of the major manufacturers on the storage market are trying their best in order to catch a spot on this bandwagon to the future. Some of them might even try some extreme solutions, like going for their...

25 June 2008
14:51 GMT

CES 2008: Lexar Lets the Memory Cards and SSDs Roll

As expected (or, better said, pretty much like everyone else in the industry), Lexar has come up with quite a few novelties for this year's CES. Some of the announcements are related to the company's collaborations with Kodak and Disney, one to its Crucial brand, while another to a very important upgrade t...

10 January 2008
03:26 GMT

Samsung Unveils 64 GB SATA II Solid State Drives (SSDs)

It's becoming quite clear that SSDs (or solid state drives) most likely represent the future of storage solutions, at least as far as mid-range portable and desktop computing solutions are concerned, as they provide relatively large storage capacities, as well as a higher level of resilience to shocks. And now t...

5 November 2007
03:31 GMT


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