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Patriot Memory Debuts the PS-100 SSD Series

The holiday season is almost here and some of you have probably been looking for ways to improve your computer's performance, by upgrading to some of the latest hardware solutions on the market. One way to do that is to equip your PC with one of the latest solid state drives, available on the market. On that no...

19 November 2009
03:33 GMT

CeBIT 2009: OCZ Unveils New 1TB SSD

The future of storage lies in the hands of those developing faster, higher capacity and more affordable solid state drives. This year, at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, OCZ has demoed a product that takes the performance of SSDs to the next level. Dubbed the OCZ Z drive, this product comes to provide its users with an ML...

5 March 2009
08:21 GMT

Just 10% of Netbooks to Feature SSDs in 2009

According to one Asian market watcher, netbooks featured with solid state drives are beginning to be considered an endangered species. It appears that, currently, most netbooks are based on a traditional hard disk drive solution, whereas at the beginning of the year, SSD-based netbooks represented the majority of shi...

12 December 2008
03:46 GMT

OCZ Intros New Flash-Based Storage Solutions

OCZ Technology has recently announced the introduction of the Slate Series ExpressCard storage expansion drive, a high-performance storage solution, designed to provide support for the latest generation of high-performance portable computer systems. The product should come in handy to those users that require a backu...

10 December 2008
09:44 GMT

Violin Memory Takes SSDs to All New Heights

The solid state drive industry is growing significantly with each passing day, and, consequently, we are seeing better, more advanced and faster solutions being released on the market. The latest in the world of SSD storage comes from Violin Memory, a provider of the world's fastest and most scalable memory appl...

11 November 2008
08:55 GMT

pureSilicon Unveils Ruggedized 128GB SSDs

Solid State Drives are slowly becoming a market standard, as technology allows for improved and higher performance levels, which makes it so that more and more flash-based product markers are announcing their own SSD-based storage solutions. Ultimately, SSDs are expected to replace mechanical hard disk drives, and to...

29 October 2008
06:42 GMT

If Thrown, SSDs Can't Fly, but Boot up Afterwards

Solid State Drives have always been said to be more reliable, have extra durability and provide longer life than hard disk drives. The penetration of SSDs into the market has seen recent boosts due to good marketing. All manufacturers claimed that SSD technology offers more performance and reliability than any HDD. ...

30 September 2008
03:19 GMT

Transcend Intros Better, New SSDs

Small, lightweight, portable computer systems are becoming increasingly popular, which is why we are also seeing numerous systems vendors equipping some of their latest systems with flash-based solid state drives. This is because SSDs are proving to be ever more reliable as a high-performance storage solution, and ca...

29 September 2008
03:07 GMT

INDILIX to Improve Upcoming SSDs

Solid State Drives are claimed to be the next best thing in the storage business, replacing the traditional HDDs, and despite recently reported issues, the upcoming flash-based storage solution is expected to improve performance and even come with a much more acceptable price tag.Indilinx, a Korean-based fabless semi...

11 August 2008
11:08 GMT

Super Talent's SSDs Get Improved

If you happen to be among those who take a keen interest in how computer technology is evolving, then you know that most of the recent discussions on storage solutions have been about Solid State Drives. This is only natural, as this solution is believed to become the next standard in computer storage, even if a coup...

22 July 2008
04:53 GMT

Super Talent Rolls out Affordable 1.8" MLC NAND Chips

Super Talent has announced the release of a new series of low-cost Solid State Drives, this time in the 1.8" form-factor. The new Micro-SATA MasterDrive KX SSDs come in 30GB, 60GB, and 120GB capacities and are no more than 5 mm thick. The prices for the new drives have been set at $299, $449, and $679 respectively. T...

3 June 2008
11:07 GMT

TDK Releases HS1 1.8-inch SATA SSD Series

TDK has announced that its HS1 series of SSDs is ready for shipment. The solid state drives are available in storage capacities of up to 64 GB and feature the GBDriver controller designed by TDK to ensure more data security. The original NAND flash memory control system was developed by TDK merely because of its wish...

29 May 2008
09:06 GMT

MLC SATA-II Solid State Drives from Super Talent

Super Talent Technology announced today the launch of a new line of MasterDrive SSDs (Solid State Drives), fully interchangeable with hard disk drives (HDDs). The new SSDs launched by the company, a world leading manufacturer of DRAM memory modules and Flash storage solutions, are much faster and lighter, and also us...

7 May 2008
10:14 GMT

Intel to Deliver Paperclip-Sized Solid State Drive

Intel has unveiled their miniature solid state drive that will play an essential role in the development of next-generation mobile, digital entertainment and embedded applications. The new thumb-sized drive has been developed especially for the company's future mobile platform, code-named "Menlow".The Z-P140 PAT...

17 December 2007
05:19 GMT

Solid State Drives Make Waves

Solid stated drives or SSDs for short are a long way from being the preferred data storage method of most computer users but as they have a number of advantages over the traditional hard disk drives, they are used to complement the main storage system inside a computer. As the solid state drives are faster and more r...

30 August 2007
06:22 GMT

An Alternative Laptop Design Approach

Worldwide laptop sales are expecting to surpass desktop sales by 2009, reaching the figure of 150 million. Studies show that most laptop buyers keep their hardware around for only about three years, before discarding it and buying a new one. Here is how laptop designers plan to make laptops more eco-friendly across t...

14 July 2007
06:11 GMT

Samsung Starts Mass Producing The 1.8-inch, 64GB Solid State Drive

Solid state drives (or SSDs, as they are more commonly known), represent the future of storage solutions for portable computing systems, as they provide high data storage capacities in relatively small and shockproof form factors. This is the reason why Samsung has developed their 1.8-inch, 64GB SSD, which could prov...

25 June 2007
06:23 GMT

Sandisk Has a New 32GB, 2.5-inch Flash Drive

As one of the biggest flash memory manufacturers in the world, Sandisk Corporation has announced the introduction of a new product next to the many other flash products they produced. This would be a new 32GB SSD with a Serial ATA interface especially designed for usage on notebooks. It features a 2.5-inch form facto...

14 March 2007
05:10 GMT


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