Tag archive: solid state drives

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

Hard drive and storage developer Seagate has closed a whopper of a deal: Seagate will be buying Samsung's hard drive manufacturing business for some $1.38 billion dollars in a deal that will see Samsung claiming a 10 percent stake in Seagate. The deal will see Samsung manufacturing controllers for use in Seagate hard drives, and Seagate will in turn supply hard drives for Samsung-manufacturers business consumer electronics and computers.… Read More

Intel has announced its third generation of Solid-State Drives (SSD), the 320 Series, which double the capacity of last years models to 600GB. Still, for many models, prices have dropped as much as 20 percent from last year, despite the increases in capacity (consumer prices may vary). It seems that Moore's Law can't be beat. The 320 series will replace Intel's current X25-M SSDs and utilize the new 25nm NAND Flash memory… Read More

Solid state drives might be all the rage right now, but traditional magnetic-based storage still rules the roost. Many corporations are moving to a tiered storage approach utilizing SSDs, but they still require massive capacities at a relatively economical price. Most server farms have moved to the 2.5-inch hard disk drive format in order to increase storage density and decrease power consumption. These smaller drives have less capacity, but you… 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

Fujitsu has become the first major PC manufacturer to formally offer flash-based solid-state drives as an option, announcing today that corporate customers and agenices can get their LifeBook P1620 and B6210 LifeBook pen-driven ultraportable systems with 16 or 32 GB solid-state drives instead of more-traditional (and more capacious) standard hard disk drives. The LifeBook P1610 and B6210 aren't designed for everyday computing;… Read More