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Super Talent Announces First USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Transfers at 320 MB/s

USB-supertalentSuper 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 of 4.8 Gbps, USB 3.0 still uses 8b10 encoding. That overhead means that real world applications will top out at 400 MB/s, still much faster than the typical 35-40 MB/s with USB 2.0.  Read more...

Get Flashy with Kingston’s SSDNow M Series Bundle

Get Flashy with Kingston

Memory and storage provider Kingston has announced its SSDNow M Series Bundle, offering a quick way for folks to upgrade from a standard 2.5- or 3.5-inch hard drive to SSD technology. The SSDNOw M Series drives are available in either 80 GB or 160 GB capacities, and Kingston is throwing in all the accessories and software needed to get data from their current hard drive onto an SSD, including software to clone over the existing hard drives, along with installation hardware to mount the SSD in either a 2.5- or 3.5-inch drive bay.

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OCZ Rolls Out Affordable SSDs

Component maker OCZ Technology has decided to get into the solid-state drive business, announcing its Vertez series of SSDs that act as drop-in replacements for standard 2.5-inch SATA-II hard drives…at prices that give some serious competition to other SSD solutions on the market.

“The new Vertex Series of SSD drives are a premium MLC based SSD solution that are designed for consumers that require fast, rugged, and reliable solid state storage,” commented OCZ director of product management Eugene Chang, in a statement.. “The Vertex makes use of our newest architecture and controller design complete with 64MB of cache to offer faster transfers and superior overall system response times in a broad range of applications and games.”  Read more...

Samsung Announces 256 GB SSD

Samsung Announces 256 GB SSD

South Korean electronics giant Samsung continues to improve the capacity of flas-based solid state drives, announcing this week a new 256 GB, 2.5-inch drive with an SATA II interface. And the MLC 256GB SSD isn’t just a drop-in replacement for existing 2.5-inch drives: it actually outperforms them, offering a sequential read speed of 200 MB/s and a write speed of 160 MB/s.

“With development of the 256GB SSD, the notebook PC is on the brink of a second stage of evolution,” said Samsung Semiconductor’s VP of memory marketing Jimm Elliot, in a statement. “This change is comparable to the evolution from the Sony Walkman to NAND memory-based MP3 players, representing an initial step in the shift to thinner, smaller, SSD-based notebooks with significantly improved performance and more than ample storage.”

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Seagate Getting Testy About SSDs?

Seagate Getting Testy About SSDs?

In an interview with Fortune magazine, Seagate CEO Bill Watkins both downplayed the significance of flash-based solid-state drives in the personal computer market place…and then implied his company is considering suing SSD manufacturers for patent infringement over the interface that connects the storage devices to computers.

In the interview, Watkins first argued SSD drives are too expensive for everyday personal computer use—a point many would-be early adopters would no doubt concede. “Realistically, I just don’t see the flash notebook sell,” Watkins said. “We just don’t see the proposition.”

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MTron Offers 32 GB SSD to Consumers

South Korea’s MTron is best known for their industrial applications and server storage solutions, but the company announced today that it plans to enter the consumer market for solid-state drives (SSDs) with its MTron SSD MOBI 23 GB SSD. Designed as a drop-in replacement for standard 2.5-inch hard disk drives, the SSD MOBI sports an SSD interface and what might be a first for consumer-level SSD drives: a 100 MB/sec reading speed, 80 MB/sec writing speed, and an average access time of 0.1ms.  Read more...

Alienware m9750 Notebook Gets Dual SSDs

Alienware m9750 Notebook Gets Dual SSDs

Formerly boutique computer maker Alienware—now a subsidiary of computer giant Dell—is adding 64 GB solid-state drivs to its flagship m9750 gaming notebooks. That’s drive, drives: new configuration options make the m9750 the first notebook on the market to feature two 64 GB solid state drives in RAID 0 configuration. Alienware is also offering the m9750 with a 64 GB SSD drive and a 7,200 RPM, 200 GB hard drive for serious storage needs. Customers can also choose a single 64 GB SSD configuration. All the 64 GB SSDs are 2.5-inch SATA models from Samsung.

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Transcend Offers 32 GB ExpressCard SSD

Transcend Offers 32 GB ExpressCard SSD

If you’ve been considering the benefits of a flash-based solid-state disk (SSD) drive—no moving parts, low power requirements, fast startup and wake times—but haven’t been sure about installing one as a drop-in replacement for an existing hard drive, then Transcend Information may have the solution for you in the form of is 32 GB ExpressCard/34 SSD.

The drive can be connected directly to ExpressCard-equipped notebook computers, and offers full support for Windows Vista and ReadyBoost (the drive can also be used with Mac OS X 10.4 or newer, or LInux Kernel 2.4 or later). Plus, the drive comes with a USB 2.0 adapter, so users can plug it into a desktop system or other computer as a USB storage device. The drive weighs just 19 grams and can operate at temperatures all the way from freezing (32°F) to way-too-hot (158°F).

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Samsung’s 16GB Solid State Hard Drive

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From the press release:

The NAND-based SSD is a low power, lightweight storage media for notebook PCs, sub-notebook PCs and tablet PCs. Using the industry’s highest density 8Gb (Gigabit) NAND Flash, Samsung can build SSDs with a capacity of up to 16GB.

The SSD has a power consumption rate less than five percent of today’s hard disk drives (HDDs), enabling next generation mobile PCs to extend their battery life by more than 10 percent. The NAND-based SSD weighs less than half that of a comparably sized HDD.

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