Tag archive: solid state drive

We've heard rumblings that the MacBook Air is where Apple is taking its lineup of Macs. Today's rumor seems to verify this. Macatakara.jp claims that Apple is preparing to unveil a new line of MacBooks that are different from anything currently on the market. They are so different that they may get a new name or brand identity all together. Unfortunately, the rumor is extremely vague on details, but does note that the new Macs may… Read More

The evidence is quite strong that we'll be seeing an update to Apple's line of MacBook Pro laptops this week. Proof has been piling up for more than a week now, with the most telling bit being that certain European have reportedly begun receiving sealed pallets of an unrevealed product that come with a note saying they are not to be opened until an announcement is made. Even if it isn't Thursday, a MacBook Pro update is coming… Read More

G.Skill Falcon II (256MB) Street price: TBA Priced aggressively and an admirable performer, G.Skill's original Falcon solid state drives hit the mark with a lot of early adopters. But that was then and this is now. Successor the Falcon II comes in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB flavors, and will take advantage of the latest SSD developments. Furthermore, G.Skill claims the entire lineup will once again be priced to please. For laptops or PCs.

Give thanks for the good old hard drive. If there's been one constant in the modern era of desktop computing – CPUs and motherboards notwithstanding – this is it. Initially unveiled in mainframe computers way back in the 1950s, first appearing in home systems in the early 1970s, and finally replacing removable floppy discs completely as the preferred method of high-volume storage in the mid-1980s, hard drives are a high-tech staple. But… Read More

Storage and memory maker Micron has announced its new RealSSD C300 solid-state drive, which the company claims is the first to employ a 6Gb/s SATA interface—twice as fast as the normal 3Gb/s SATA interfaces in typical drives. The RealSSD C300 can push data to storage at up to 215 MB/s and read data at up to 335 MB/s, which pushes the performance envelop for SSD drives well into the high range of all large capacity storage media.… Read More

Chipmaker Intel announced today that it plans to enter the solid-state drive market with its Z-U130 flash-based drives. Although these devices aren't aimed at consumers—sorry, no thumb drives with “Leap Ahead” emblazoned on the side—Intel plans to offer the systems to computer manufacturers and embedded systems makers as a way to offer low-power, high-speed storage and let them achieve better performance than… Read More