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OWC brings out portable SSDs

by Shawn Ingram on Sep 10, 2009 at 06:17 PM

There are times when you need to bring large files from your desktop or laptop to someone else’s and no flash drive you have is quite large enough to hold those massive files or can only handle a portion of them.  Moving files through several transfers from one flash drive,… Continue Reading »

Solid state drives in servers?  It’s coming.

by Iyaz Akhtar on May 19, 2009 at 02:14 PM

Fusion-io, who has an awesome front page image (as seen above), is working with Samsung to put in solid state drives into servers.  The first thought I had was, “Why?”  After all, solid state drives make a lot more sense for portable electronics like laptops since they can increase battery… Continue Reading »

How SanDisk built the fastest solid state drive ever

by Iyaz Akhtar on Jan 10, 2009 at 11:07 AM

I got a chance to speak to Doreet Oren, Director of Product Marketing, SSD for SanDisk.  She told me about the SSDs that SanDisk introduced at CES and we spoke about SanDisk’s plans. SanDisk is focusing on two markets with their SSDs: netbooks and traditional laptops.  For the netbooks, SanDisk… Continue Reading »

SanDisk packs 60, 120, 240 gigabytes into solid state flash drives

by Doug Berger on Jan 8, 2009 at 12:50 PM

This morning, Sandisk unveiled its latest and greatest in flash memory: 60GB, 120GB, and even 240GB solid state drives (SSD) to fuel new-age laptops.  The drives are crammed into 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch bodies, and seem to have some great performance—200MB/sec read and 140MB/sec write. Due out in the middle of… Continue Reading »

Toshiba upgrades SSD capacities

by Cheng Hung on Sep 28, 2008 at 08:42 AM

Modern laptop users demand SSDs for their laptops due to their inherently faster seek time and shock-proof nature.  With that in mind, Toshiba has recently announced a boost in its SSD and Flash Modules line-up, satisfying laptop and netbookusers. Continue Reading »

Buffalo intro’s the portable USB-powered external SSD

by Robert Nelson on Sep 8, 2008 at 01:20 PM

Buffalo has recently introduced their latest portable storage solution, the MicroStation. The new drives come in a variety of storage options to include 32, 64 and 100GB and the exciting part is they are solid state drives. As of now pricing and an availability date have not yet been announced,… Continue Reading »

Samsung announces the 256GB flashSSD ealier than planned

by Arnold Zafra on May 26, 2008 at 10:03 AM

It was only a couple of months ago when we said that Samsung was planning to roll out a new 256GB SSD by 2009. And look what we have here right now, Samsung just announced its new ultra-fast 256GB SSD. Yes, folks Samsung was really dead serious in upgrading its… Continue Reading »

Intel teases, shows future with upcoming SSD’s

by Indraneel Purohit on Apr 6, 2008 at 12:36 PM

Solid State Drives, or SSD, are the up and coming solution to the moving parts problem of current hard drives. Based on flash technology, the read/write times of SSDs are flat out blazing. An Intel R&D group, headed up by Knut Grimsud, is responsible for developing new storage technologies, one… Continue Reading »

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