Tag archive: SanDisk

Today, SanDisk introduces the latest addition to the Sansa lineup of MP3 players, the Sansa Clip Zip MP3 player. In addition to sporting a microSDHC slot for expanded storage, the Sansa Clip Zip comes in two different storage sizes. The 4GB model stores up to 1,000 songs (based on an average of 3.5 min songs encoded at 128 kbps) and the 8GB model stores up to 2,000 songs. The microSDHC slot allows consumers to expand the memory of the MP3… Read More

Flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) used to high expensive storage options only for high-end systems—but has portable devices have taken off and the cost of flash storage has come down, SSDs are becoming very real storage options for everyday computer owners. And SanDisk is hoping some of those folks will want to augment or upgrade their existing computers with their new Sandisk Ultra SSDs, available in 60, 120, and 240 GB capacities and with… Read More

Flash memory manufacturer SanDisk is betting heavily on the future of solid-state storage: the company has reached a deal to acquire solid-state drive maker Pliant for some $327 million in cash and equity-based incentives. Pliant makes high-performance SAS solid-state drives designed for enterprise and data center storage solutions, and is working on rolling out PCIe-based storage systems for high-performance servers. The move is strategic for… Read More

Last week Intel and Micron announced they had started sampling flash storage using a new 20nm process, meaning the solid-state memory takes up less space and uses less power—both critical for mobile devices. Now, memory and storage developer SanDisk—in collaboration with Toshiba—says they've gone one better: they're making flash memory using a 19nm process, which the company is touting as the most advanced memory… Read More

Flash memory maker SanDisk has announced it has reached a settlement with flash storage maker Imation that puts an end to two patent infringement suits pending against the company. Under the settlement, SanDisk and Imation will cross-license patents to each other, and Imation will be paying SanDisk royalties for use of its technology. Imation has also stipulated to the validity of SanDisk's U.S. patent 7,137,011, which covers aspects of… Read More

High-resolution cameras and video recorders of capturing high-definition 1080p glory might be commonplace these days, but that also means the mammoth files created by these image capture devices are also getting commonplace—and they aren't getting any easier to manage. Now SanDisk aims to fix the problem with its new SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I card that can support read and write speeds of up to 45 MB/s—meaning it can keep… Read More

The mobile music market might be focused on smartphones right now, but that doesn't mean there's no market for standalone portable media players…and to that end SanDisk has announced its new SanDisk Fuse+ MP3 Player, sporting a large color LCD display, video playback capability, microSDHC removable storage, and swipe-based “filmstrip” interface for selecting music and navigating player functions. And the Fuse+ is… Read More

Memory and storage maker SanDisk has announced its new SanDisk Cruzer Blade flash drive, which the company is touting as its smallest flash drive available in the U.S. or Canadian markets: it weighs as much a penny and is the same length as a standard paperclip, but packs up to 16GB of storage capacity. The idea is that the drive can easily ride on a mobile phone dongle or a keychain, yet give users convenient access to important documents,… Read More

Smartphones like HTC’s MyTouch and Motorola’s Droid have always advertised storage capacities of up to 32GB through microSDHC slots, but cards that big were strictly the stuff of myth and legend – until now. On Monday, SanDisk finally released the first ever 32GB microSDHC card on the market. The miniscule 32GB microSDHC card will begin selling Tuesday with a suggest retail price of $200. As Wired points out, that makes the 0.5-gram card worth… Read More

Seems like every storage vendor has been getting into the solid-state drive (SSD) market for a while now, but SanDisk has been absent—which was noticeable considering how much of its business is built around flash memory. Well, no more: SanDisk has announced its G3 Solid State Drives are now available to retailers in North America and Europe. The drives are aimed as drop-in replacements for 7,200 RPM hard drives—and they're… Read More

It was just last month at CES when Panasonic introduced its first 64 GB SDXC memory cards, opening up a new doorway for fans of high-definition cameras and camcorders. Of course, Panasonic's suggested retail pricing for those 64 GB cards was $599.95 each. Now comes memory and storage developer SanDisk with its 64 GB Ultra SDCX card, offering the same capacity for just $349.99. “SDXC is the successor to the popular SDHC card… Read More

SanDisk is looking to re-assert itself in the holiday gift-giving market for portable music players with the updated Sansa Clip+ portable media player, which looks to solve the problem of limited on-board storage and needing to sideload from a computer to swap out tunes by adding a microSD slot. Now users can swap music libraries on the fly with the same aplomb they'd use popping new media into a digital camera…and,… Read More

Amazon's next-gen Kindle 2 eBook reader, introduced earlier this week, is due to go on sale on February 24. However, publishing industry insiders already anticipate an impending controversy over its text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities. As noted in our hands-on impressions, the Kindle 2’s biggest step forward over its predecessor appears to be its ability to vocalize text, reading manuscripts like an audiobook for the benefit of end-users.… Read More

If SanDisk’s original SlotMusic concept raised your budget-seeking antennae with a $20 player, but lost its appeal at $15 albums, the new company’s new SlotRadio Player may pick up where the original left off. The tiny Shuffle-like player will cost you $100 up front, but comes preloaded with 1,000 Billboard top 40 hits across a number of genres. Though that works out to about 10 cents a song, even with the price of the player included, the… Read More

Existing solid-state drives are fast. The next generation of such drives could perform up to 100 times faster, though, thanks to a new flash-specific file system from SanDisk. The company unveiled its new ExtremeFFS file system on Wednesday. According to SanDisk, ExtremeFFS could improve random write speeds by up to 100 times by storing it in a more efficient way, rather than actually changing up the hardware. When data needs to be… Read More