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Active Media Products announced a new SSD to their line up, a 128GB member of the SaberTooth ZX family.  Quieter and faster than a HDD, the Active Media Products drive will add more storage and speed to applications.  The drive is available now for $379 at Amazon. The SaberTooth fits… Continue Reading »

For only $80, you can get a Kingston SSDNow V 30GB Flash Drive that will boost your system performance. Boasting speeds of up to 180MB/sec. read speed and 50MB/sec. write speed, it is a surefire way of decreasing your boot time or even your software startup time. SSDs are known… Continue Reading »

The SSD market so far has been close to non-existent in terms of recognizable hard drive manufacturers.  It looks like that’s about to change, with Seagate finally entering the market.  The company has an impressive first entry with its new Pulsar drives. Seagate’s Pulsar drives are SSDs built for enterprise… Continue Reading »

Solid State Drives, or SSD’s, are finally becoming cheap enough to be popular and with good reason. SSD’s have the ability to run much faster at significantly lower temperatures when compared to regular hard drives. This is because SSD’s have no moving parts in them whatsoever, unlike hard drives. But… Continue Reading »

Solid state drives are an attractive option to people who want a laptop that have no moving parts and/or want better battery life.  Picking a SSD option is usually quite expensive, but Active Media announced its new line of SaberTooth S3 Mini PICe SSDs for Asus Eee PCs with pretty… Continue Reading »

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 »

Intel recently launched the new successor to the 50nm SSD, the X25-M 34nm.  The main differences between the two small SSDs is the fact that the 34nm is more efficient and affordable, which makes it a more attractive option for laptop and computer manufacturers.  The X25-M is set to be… Continue Reading »

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 »

I’m starting to think maybe Gadgetell should get into the netbook business.  Why not?  It seems everyone else is doing it.  Granted, all those companies have experience in manufacturing computers or components prior to getting into the netbook arena, but it can’t be that hard.  Just get some Intel Atom… Continue Reading »

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 »