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Intel Officially Unveils 320 Series 3rd Generation SSDs

Intel's involvement in the field of solid-state drives is quite well-known, and now, the company's decided to take everything to a whole new level by releasing their 3rd generation SSD family, the Intel SSD 320 Series. According to Intel, the new SSD drives fully leverage the 25-nanometer (nm) NAND flash...

29 March 2011
02:34 GMT

Kingston Achieves Record Revenues in 2010

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

New USB 3.0 External SSD Drive Prepped by Transcend

Transcend's got a serious experience in the field of external and portable storage solutions and now, the company's back with yet another very interesting offering, namely the SSD18C3 Portable Solid State Drive.The first thing that makes this storage solution particularly interesting is the fact that it com...

7 March 2011
03:05 GMT

Intel Unleashes the SSD 510 Series Drives with 6Gbps SATA Interfaces

Without a doubt, Intel is one of the dominant forces in the SSD market, launching quite a large number of high-end units over time, the latest to join their lineup being the brand-new Intel SSD 510 series.According to the chip manufacturer, the main selling point the new solid-state drive series has in store is repre...

1 March 2011
01:35 GMT

Predator V3 2.5-Inch SATA-III Server SSD Launched by Active Media Products

Active Media Products has really managed to make a name for itself on the SSD market over the past couple of years, and now they're back with yet another very interesting product, the Predator V3, targeting specifically the server environment.The new storage device line is built around the new Marvell "Van Gogh"...

28 February 2011
04:31 GMT

Hybrid USB 3.0 ExpressCard - SSD Introduced by RunCore

Without a doubt, the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed standard is becoming more and more popular these days, and since very few notebooks come equipped with such high-speed connectivity ports, the people over at RunCore have decided to come up with a solution that enables even older portable system to achieve such impressive data ...

9 February 2011
02:32 GMT

Plextor Prepping the M2S Series of SATA III SSDs

Although Plextor's not really a traditional SSD (solid state drive) manufacturer, that's not stopping the company from tackling this very lucrative market segment with their brand-new M2S Series, that offers not only some pretty impressive data storage capabilities, but also high data transfer rates. The...

8 February 2011
02:41 GMT

SandForce Develops Partner Program to Speed Up SSD Rollout

SandForce is quite well-known for manufacturing SSD controllers that grant solid-state drives ultra-fast data transfer rates, and it seems that the company is quite keen to make sure that end-products featuring its components arrive faster on the market, since it's just announced the development of the SandForce...

1 February 2011
01:10 GMT

Z-Drive R3 PCI-Express SSDs from OCZ Going Official

Although providing a first glimpse at their Z-Drive R3 PCI-Express SSDs back at CES 2011, OCZ has decided to finally make these high-end, ultra-fast, enterprise-oriented storage solutions official, catering to the needs of system architects looking for performance, reliability, and design flexibility, as well as a co...

28 January 2011
01:27 GMT

Up to 28 200GB SSDs Make the IceWEB 3000 a Mighty Storage Machine

Without a doubt, SSDs have managed to take the world of storage by storm, managing to bring about not only a higher level of reliability during use, but also an enhanced level of performance, particularly visible when several such storage units are joined together in large systems, as is the case with the IceWEB 3000...

20 January 2011
09:02 GMT

New Intel SSD 310 Series Drives Are Super-Slim, Target Dual-Drive Notebooks

Although Intel's main concern, right now, is the forthcoming launch of their already super-famous Sandy Bridge platform, that's not stopping the company from releasing some other products as well, their latest development being a super-slim SSD drive series, the Intel SSD 310, that delivers a very good leve...

30 December 2010
00:35 GMT

Single-Platter 500GB HDDs for Notebooks to Become Mainstream in 2011

Without a doubt, storage solutions have evolved quite a lot over the past couple of years, the appearance of SSDs really changing the game in this field, at least to some extent, since HDDs are still out there in large numbers, and the same will happen throughout 2011, when 500GB HDDs are quite likely to become stand...

28 December 2010
09:46 GMT

New UltraDrive MT SSD by Super Talent Is Powered by the Indilinx BareFoot Controller

Although most of the new SSDs being rolled out onto the market nowadays feature SandForce controllers, that's not really the case with all of them, Super Talent recently unveiling a brand-new addition to their UltraDrive series, namely the MT model, that is powered by the Indilinxs BareFoot controller. The SA...

28 December 2010
02:54 GMT

100, 200 and 400GB MLC SSDs Developed by Samsung for Enterprise Storage

Although Samsung is not exactly the first name that comes to mind when talking about SSDs, the South Korean giant is, in fact, actively involved in this field, the company revealing today that it had developed and started sampling 100, 200 and 400 gigabyte (GB) multi-level-cell (MLC) solid state drives (SSDs) for use...

21 December 2010
00:57 GMT

New 400GB SSDs from Toshiba Target the Enterprise Segment

Without a doubt, the enterprise segment has some pretty specific computing needs (often, very different from the ones of the mainstream consumer market), and for this reason, it should come as no surprise that Toshiba has rolled out a new solid-state drive lineup, designed specifically in order to meet the aforementi...

14 December 2010
01:05 GMT

USB 3.0 to Become Standard, Tablets to Bolster Memory Card Sales in 2011, Kingston President Predicts

As 2010 draws to an end, just about everyone's starting to make some interesting predictions as to what we might expect over the course of 2010, but some (such as Kingston's co-founder and president, John Tu) have more insights into what the next year will bring than others, especially in their particular a...

10 December 2010
06:21 GMT

New 90GB and 180GB Force Series SSDs Outed by Corsair

Corsair seems to be quite keen on establishing itself as a household name on the SSD market, and for this reason, it keeps pushing out new and improved products at a fairly constant rate, the latest to join the fold being two brand-new Force series SSD units. As TCMagazine reports, what we're talking about he...

2 December 2010
08:15 GMT

Self-Encrypting SSD by Samsung Praised for Its High Protection Level

Given the fact that the security of one's data is such an important topic nowadays, it should come as no surprise that just about all of the storage solutions' manufacturers out there trying to demo just how secure and “protective” their devices are, and this seems to be the case with Samsung as...

24 November 2010
02:12 GMT

120GB SSD Meets USB 3.0 in New LaCie FastKey Flash Drive

While the “fellowship of the USB 3.0” grows larger and larger these days, with more and more storage devices employing this super-fast interface, we also come across some rather strange creations that comply to the SuperSpeed standards, one of the latest being LaCie's FastKey USB flash drive, that ac...

19 November 2010
01:17 GMT

Hitachi Announces New Enterprise SSDs Built with Intel NAND Flash

As social networks, mobile applications, web TV and online video services become far more important in our day to day life, the storage solutions used by large content providers and cloud-computing services need to move to faster performing drives such as SSDs, Hitachi just announcing the Ultrastar SSD400S family bui...

16 November 2010
04:20 GMT

512GB Internal SSD RAID Array for Mac Pro Available from Apricorn

Apricorn has come up with numerous storage offerings over the years, targeting various consumer segments, but they've really gone all out with their latest, that should make quite a lot of Mac Pro owners very happy.So, the company has just made available an Internal SSD RAID Array for Mac Pro, designed for high ...

12 November 2010
07:31 GMT

New Kingston SSDNow V100 Solid State Drives Hit 256GB, Target Mainstream Consumers

Around a week ago, we've let in you in on a little “secret”, namely Kingston's plans of refreshing their SSDNow V series solid state drives, and sure enough, the company delivered on its promise right on time by rolling out the SSDNow V100 range, that targets mainstream consumers in particular.T...

9 November 2010
01:16 GMT

256GB Blade-Type SSD Modules Introduced by Toshiba, Should Last for 114 Years

SSDs are starting to become the storage solution of choice for notebook manufacturers as well (just think of the latest ultra-thin, ulta-portable computing system from Apple, the MacBook Air), and for this reason, Toshiba announced the development of the Blade X-gale SSD series, an innovative new form factor in high ...

8 November 2010
02:06 GMT

Kingston to Refresh SSDNow V Series Solid State Drives on November 8'th

Well, well, looks like Kingston's keeping itself pretty busy this time of year, its main area of focus being, apparently, that of SSDs, where they've announced plenty of interesting things, with a whole lot more to come in the near future.So, after checking out that new 96GB, improved SSDNow V+100 model yes...

3 November 2010
02:22 GMT

Kingston Adds 96GB SSD to SSDNow V+100 Series, Other Upgrades Too

Kingston's SSD division has been extremely active over the past year or so, the company managing to establish itself as one of the top player in this market segment, now they're back with yet another addition to their SSDNow V+ family of solid-state drives, namely the enterprise-oriented SSDNow V+100.With ...

2 November 2010
02:00 GMT

Kingston SSDs Offer Most Effective TRIM-Off Experience, Benchmark Claims

Solid-state drives (or SSDs) have become one of the hottest trends in storage technology over the past couple of years, the competition in this segment being more and more dire, with several companies struggling to come up with all sorts of new technologies and developments that will allow them to be even half a step...

29 October 2010
13:41 GMT

1GB/s SSD Transfer Speeds Provided by New Wings PCIe Modular Platform

Typically, PCIe SSDs are a lot faster than their SATA counterparts, but they also tend to be significantly more expensive, thus making them slightly out of reach for most consumers out there, even of the enthusiast kind.However, a company called Angelbird has decided to try out a slightly different approach to this p...

22 October 2010
04:53 GMT

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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