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Thanks to MyDigitalSSD, there is a new range of solid-state drives available for makers and buyers of laptops, ultrabooks, tablets and desktops alike.
As the title says, they are called the Bullet Proof 3 (BP3) series, which makes us wonder if they can actually survive gun shots.
We've seen solid-state drive... |
25 May 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Well-known memory and SSD manufacturer Corsair is announcing the new “Force Series 3 SSD Notebook Upgrade Kit” on its official website. The upgrade kits come with two SSD sizes: 120 GB and 240 GB. SSDs are an obvious advantage over normal HDDs. When compared with 2.5” laptop drives that are usually ... |
25 May 2012
03:00 GMT |
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It’s a very good thing that mobile computers are starting to ship with integrated SSD drives next to the traditional HDDs or just SSDs altogether. We’d rather each notebook came with two 2.5” bays, so that the user can choose whatever configuration he desires. On very small systems like Apple... |
24 May 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Memory and SSD manufacturer, American company Patriot is reportedly preparing a new SSD based on a new generation of Phison controllers. The controller in question is called Phison S8, and the new drive from Patriot is “Magma.” Many of you may remember the horrible Phison 3105 performance from Patriot&rsq... |
23 May 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Just like Silicon Power did the other day with the T10 SSD, TeamGroup is introducing the A1 SSD, on its official website. This is an affordable model using the SATA II interface and a 128 MB of DDR cache memory. While many of us still have some old computers lying around in the house that might benefit from an SSD u... |
22 May 2012
18:11 GMT |
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With the world being in an uninterrupted economic downturn, Silicon Power wants to capitalize on the budget-constrained users and launches the T10 SSD, on its official website. This is a SATA II drive and comes in 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB capacities. Considering that our most “illuminated” minds s... |
22 May 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Not being able to reach the desired price targets, notebook manufacturers will reportedly give up using SSDs in half of their UltraBooks. This is not really good news for either the users or for Intel, but it represents the reality that Intel’s platforms and CPUs are overpriced. Like we’ve written before... |
21 May 2012
03:42 GMT |
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Well-known SSD developer and manufacturer OCZ is reportedly preparing to launch a slim line of SSDs as part of the Vertex 3 family. The new series will be suggestively called “Vertex 3 Low Profile.”The new series will have four members and these will offer capacities of 60 GB, 120 GB, 240 GB and 480 GB.As... |
19 May 2012
13:51 GMT |
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RunCore may not have given its newest solid-state drive the fastest interface in the world, but it did give it something that will make the day of people who want to be absolutely, undeniably certain they can make it impossible for others to see their files.
The InVincible SSD goes to more absurd lengths to erase y... |
17 May 2012
02:32 GMT |
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California-based SSD company STEC Inc. has just announced the new CellCare technology, on its official website. CellCare is a combination of hardware and software that enables affordable SSDs to last over 40,000 P/E cycles. A P/E (program erase) cycle is writing data on every memory cell in your SSD and then erasing... |
16 May 2012
03:02 GMT |
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There is a new solid-state drive line ready to serve in embedded computing, server, notebook, and tablet devices used in military, public safety, utility, homeland security and mining applications.
Consumer solid-state drives are pretty straightforward: NAND Flash-based storage devices with high transfer speeds.
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15 May 2012
15:01 GMT |
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As we've established in our previous article, storage density is not going to increase any faster in the following years and as such, the performance bumps will be mediocre at best. When it comes to hybrid drives, WD openly exposes Seagate’s rip-off, as the company admits the fact that a 20 to 1 ratio bet... |
14 May 2012
04:40 GMT |
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We've seen mSATA SSDs before, but even TDK's most recent launch didn't go beyond the SATA II interface, so Transcend definitely has an advantage in the MSA720. That's right, the solid state drive, or solid state drive line, supports the SATA III interface standard, otherwise known as SATA 6.0 Gb... |
11 May 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Storage expert, Japanese company TDK has reportedly just announced the SMG3B Series 7 mSATA SSD line, on its official website. This device is using the GBDriver RS3 processor that was also developed by the company. The capacities range between 1 and 64 GB of SLC NAND flash memory and this is especially suitable for ... |
10 May 2012
03:42 GMT |
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Japanese company and storage solution expert Buffalo has just announced a new line of SSDs using MRAM for cache instead of the usual SDRAM, on its official website. MRAM is short for magnetoresistive random-access memory and it’s a technology that has been in development since the early ’90s. According to... |
9 May 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Kingmax appears to be selling a high-capacity SMU25 Client Pro SSD, as it was spotted in Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district. The KM01TBSMI25 SSD packs 1 TB of unformatted capacity, but that is not very impressive when you simply read the performance specifications on the box.Capacity and somewhat low price was ... |
9 May 2012
04:02 GMT |
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The well-known and successful SSD manufacturer OCZ Technology Group, Inc. has just announced, toghether with IceWEB Storage Corporation, that OCZ's SAS-based Talos 2 SSDs and SATA III-based Deneva 2 SSDs have been selected by IceWEB for inclusion in IceWEB's complete line of unified data storage systems. C... |
8 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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ADATA has just launched two new lines of SSDs called SP900 and SP800, on its official website. Both SSDs use new optimized firmware that allows them to achieve greater performance results. The new products are currently available in the US and Canada. The SP900 line has a maximum sequential read speed of 550 MB/s a... |
8 May 2012
09:07 GMT |
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Seagate's Pulsar.2 solid state drive line, the successor to the original pulsar collection, has been formally introduced, but the first tests haven't been carried out yet.
It is tomorrow, on May 9, 2012, that the storage product maker will put the 12 Gbps SAS interface through its paces, during the SCSI T... |
8 May 2012
03:16 GMT |
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It seems that a lot of info was reportedly shared during OCZ’s recent financial results conference. The company expects two more SSD controllers to be integrated in shipping products this summer. Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology Group Inc. said that “we’ve recently achieved a tape-out of two un... |
7 May 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Famous SSD manufacturer OCZ Technology Group, Inc. has just announced the launch of the new release candidate firmware v1.4RC, which dramatically improves the performance of its Vertex 4 SATA 3.0 Series SSDs. The most significant improvement is the fact that v1.4RC nearly doubles sequential write performance for lowe... |
7 May 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Japanese company Donya seems to know what the average laptop user needs, and today it is launching the DN-69810 SATA adapter used to mount a 2.5" drive in the optical drive bay. It comes in two versions, one normal 9.5 millimeter thick and one measuring 12.7 millimeters. We’re not usually so delighted with som... |
7 May 2012
09:30 GMT |
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Well-known professional storage solution manufacturer Fusion-io reportedly found a way to make MLC flash NAND behave like SLC cells. Many thought it was a scam, or an expected marketing trick, but it really seems the company’s experts are on to something. Currently, flash NAND-based storage is the fas... |
7 May 2012
04:19 GMT |
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People and companies seeking storage devices that can withstand wider temperatures than normal might want to check out the new module SATA SSDs that Apacer has formally launched.
We have only just written about Team Group's commitment to create RAM that handled extreme temperatures, or at least temperatures hi... |
5 May 2012
05:52 GMT |
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NAND flash contract prices are dropping at an alarming rate. That’s not bad for consumers, but the manufacturers suffer. Low profits mean less money for R&D, or even bankruptcy, as in the case of Elpida (DRAM memory manufacturer). In the second half of April, contract prices continued the downward trend t... |
4 May 2012
10:12 GMT |
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OCZ Technology Group has recently posted its great financial results. During talks with the company regarding the current market situation, the company’s CEO Ryan Petersen reportedly said: "With recent NAND flash price decreases, we have been able to introduce market leading products with price points of appr... |
4 May 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Taiwanese company Max Xtreme Technology has just announced the new MX-KATANA 6Gb/s Series low-profile SATA3 SSD modules, on its official website. These are low-profile SSDs with capacities ranging between 240 GB and 480 GB. MX-Katana SSDs are powered by SanForce’s SF2281 controller and come with the same tech... |
3 May 2012
07:31 GMT |
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We've just received an email from the Chinese, Changsha-based company RonCore announcing us that it is launching the first single-chip SATA DOM SSDs, called the Mini DOM. The RunCore Mini DOM SSD is a SATA DOM SSD that uses the SATA II interface. The company claims their product offers higher performa... |
2 May 2012
10:51 GMT |
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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
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OCZ is reportedly preparing to launch a 1TB version of the company’s well-known Octane SSD product line. The new SSD uses 25 nm MLC NAND flash, and comes with a 512 MB of DRAM cache. The highest capacity Octane consumer SSD is called OCT1-25SAT3-1T. The drive is built in the 2.5-inch form-factor with SATA III... |
2 May 2012
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has become part of Western Digital under the name of HGST, but there doesn't seem to have been any relevant disruption to its operations yet, meaning that product releases are still happening.
This once, we get to look at the first ever SAS solid state drive to exhibit a tra... |
2 May 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Having the top SSD models in the market seems to have benefited OCZ Technology Group Inc. The company has recently made public their latest financial results and they seem to be doing very well lately. The California-based SSD developer and manufacturer was founded just a decade ago. Its main goal at that time was b... |
2 May 2012
03:24 GMT |
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American company StarTech has recently presented the SATSAS425BK 4-Drive 2.5” SATA/SAS Hot-swap Backplane on its official website. The SATSAS425BK will allow you to install four 2.5" SATA and/or SAS hard drives into a single 5.25” front bay. Editor's note:Having a strong background in server and work... |
30 April 2012
15:48 GMT |
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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 |
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Another SSD powered by a SandForce controller has appeared, courtesy of Silicon Power.
We have no availability dates or prices to impart, but we do know everything else worth knowing.
First off, there are 60 GB, 120 GB, 240 GB and 480 GB capacity options.
Secondly, the performance, allowed by SATA III (SATA 6.0 Gb... |
24 April 2012
10:41 GMT |
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PCI Express solid state drives weren't easy to use at first, since they lacked boot support, but they eventually overcame that limitation. Now, the drives are gaining caching technology support too. For those unaware, Intel Smart Response technology, and similar solutions, make a PC think an HDD and an SSD are... |
21 April 2012
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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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Intel readies revision 3.0.3 for their handy SSD Toolbox utility and we're offering an insight and free downloads for it, as usual. With SSDs becoming cheaper and more reliable with each passing month, it's little surprise that solid state drive manufacturers are trying to keep up with the evolution of the... |
20 April 2012
10:25 GMT |
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The smaller 64 GB brother of the fast Plextor PX-256M3 SSD has reportedly made an appearance in online shops around the Land of the Rising Sun. This SSD is based on Marvell’s 88SS9174 controller, just like Corsair’s Performance Pro series and Crucial’s famous M4 SSDs. The Marvell 88SS9174 controll... |
18 April 2012
07:57 GMT |
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They are at it again: makers of hard disk drive units are busy saying how NAND Flash memory couldn't possibly replace magnetic drives. Ever. To Seagatet's credit, CEO Steven Luczo does, at the very least, admit that NAND can be a good complimentary technology (we think he meant complementary, but just in ... |
18 April 2012
03:40 GMT |
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It looks like Intel didn't let Easter go by without a new product release, so out came the SSD 330 Series of storage devices made of MLC NAND Flash chips. Intel continues to hold that solid state drives are the best thing that can happen to anyone's personal computer, assuming the PC doesn't already ... |
17 April 2012
03:11 GMT |
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Salt Lake City-based American company Fusion-io has recently presented the new Fusion ioFX solid state drive on its official website. This is a PCIe storage solution optimized for workstation use.The strange thing is that the pricing is quite high. For its price, users can buy two entry-level workstations, or one hig... |
16 April 2012
17:01 GMT |
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People who want to buy a new USB 3.0 storage device might want to check out Buffalo's SSD-PEU3 series, assuming they live in Japan that is.
Long story short, the company has released three new solid state drives with capacities of 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB, respectively.
In that order, they bear prices of $105,... |
12 April 2012
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Japanese company Century Tech started shipping its new CRAS2U3CP SATA HDD/SSD cloning dock in stores around the Land of the Rising Sun.The dock allows the user to clone a SATA HDD/SSD, without using a computer or a laptop. This method is much faster, simpler and even cheaper and eco-friendly, as you don’t need ... |
12 April 2012
06:05 GMT |
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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 |
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Makers of storage devices, in this case solid state drives, usually advertise their inventions by emphasizing their speed or capacity, but Microsemi Corporation chose a different tactic.
If we were to guess, we might venture saying that what Microsemi did is something that other makers of solid state drives could e... |
11 April 2012
20:01 GMT |
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There is a new line of solid state drives up and selling, or they will be soon enough. Long story short, Micron has finished its RealSSD C400 solid state drives. The products feature the mSATA interface and will serve notebooks, or any other compatible application. That said, the capacity range is 32 GB to 256 GB,... |
11 April 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Intel is almost ready to start selling a line of solid state drives based on 25nm HET-MLC NAND flash memory chips, a sort of blend between SLC and MLC NAND.
Granted, that isn't the correct way to put it. Rather, HET-MLC is a special kind of MLC (multi-level cell) NAND memory that has endurance levels closer to... |
11 April 2012
09:46 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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