Tag archive: SSD

LG has unveiled a good portion of its CES lineup today, showing off four new laptops and an all-in-one 3D PC. Two of the laptops meet Intel's Ultrabook specs (an Ultrabook is mostly just a really thin laptop with flash memory instead of a moving hard drive), and the two others have 3D technology to make up for their bulk. Interestingly, all five products run on Intel's speedy second generation Core i7 processor. Below is a very… Read More

Earlier this year, HP said it was done with consumer electronics. We didn't think we'd ever see a new HP laptop or PC. Then the company fired its CEO and hired former eBay CEO Meg Whitman to take the helm. After a full month of deliberating, Whitman decided that HP would like to remain the #1 PC manufacturer in the world. Was it a hard decision? How many spreadsheets does it take to figure out that you don't want to abandon a… Read More

It's doubtless that one day flash storage, like SSDs, will replace hard disks for data centers and enterprise storage. SSDs are generally faster, more reliable and use less power than hard disks. As usual in the tech world, the question is who's going to make the first leap, and when's it going to happen? There have already been a bunch of start-ups looking to cash in with all-flash storage solutions, but one in particular… 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

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

What do you do when a thumb drive won’t quite handle 80GB of photos from gallivanting all over Europe, but you can’t risk putting six months of your life on a failure-prone magnetic drive? Slap them on Iomega’s new SSD Flash drive, of course. At warp speed. It may not look quite as futuristic as OCZ’s Enyo 3.0 (it’s pretty much a black slab), but it’s faster, thinner, and depending on where you go, just as cheap. The company’s first foray into… Read More

Just in time for the upcoming back-to-school season, Apple has given its iMac line its perennial update. Although the newest iMacs look identical to their older cousins, a bit of retooling under the hood leaves them faster and more capable than ever. Will you notice? Here’s a rundown of what’s new, and what it means to you. Core i3, i5 and i7 Processors The trusty Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad designations have disappeared in favor,… Read More

Solid-state drives (SSDs) have been touted for notebook and netbook computer users for a while, since they use less power than conventional hard drives and, having no moving parts, tend to withstand the rigors and bumps of a mobile lifestyle better than traditional hard drives. However, the speed of SSDs can also boost desktop systems, particularly when used as startup and application drives. Now, chipmaker Intel is getting into the value SSD… 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

Memory and storage manufacturer Kingston has announced its second generation of SSDNow V-series solid-state drives, designed for both mainstream consumer computer users and businesses. The new V-series drives range in capacity from 30 to 128 GB, offer improved performance over their predecessors, and incorporate TRIM support (which is built-in with Windows 7) to help the drives maintain their performance over their lifespan. The drives are… Read More

Micron announced the RealSSD C300 with 6Gbps SATA support early in December. It partnered with the Marvell Technology Group to create a new proprietary controller that will be used exclusively with Micron's latest generation of SSDs. The controller supports the use of ONFI 2.1 34nm NAND flash memory sourced from IMFT, Micron's joint venture with Intel. The drive is able to reach a sustained sequential read speed of 355 MB/s, and a… 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

Super Talent Technology has been making a name for itself in the Solid State Drive market with speedy SSDs and its PCIe based RAIDDrive solutions. The company is now announcing that it plans to be the first in the world to ship USB 3.0 flash drives, with first availability at the beginning of December. The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface supports transfer speeds up to ten times faster than regular USB 2.0. Although it has a theoretical throughput… Read More