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Seagate unveils 800GB pro SSD, new Constellation and Savvios

Published on: 23rd March, 2011

On March 15, 2011, Seagate unveiled four pro drives targeted at both serious users and enterprise users, including an almost record-setting SSD. The new Pulsar 2 is believed to be the first SSD to use multi-level cell (MLC) in business and to use the denser storage to boost capacity, even without reducing the lifespan. The [...]

External SSD drive from Iomega to have USB 3.0

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

Iomega has entered the external solid-state drives by making the External SSD Flash Drive. Using a 1.8-inch SSD, the storage has a very small footprint but still surpasses a rotating hard drive. It has 191MB per second peak read speeds as well as 130MB per second peak write speeds. The drive is equipped with a [...]

Seagate unveils Momentus XT hybrid HD and SSD

Published on: 29th May, 2010

Seagate has revealed the Momentus XT. The drive is meant to be the best for notebooks. It includes a traditional 2.5-inch at 7,200RPM hard drive with a 4GB solid-state drive, SLC-based, and 32MB of memory, DDR3 type, as a cache. Special firmware present on the drive uses the solid-state drive to optimize performance. It would [...]

Enyo external SSD from OCZ with USB 3.0

Published on: 9th May, 2010

The Enyo Portable SSD has been unveiled by the memory and storage media manufacturer OCZ. The device has a new high-speed USB 3.0 interface, which brings more speed, as it is rated at 5Gbps. Under the circumstances, the new Enyo Portable SSD device with its faster interface is capable of reaching up to 200MBps write [...]

Apple’s iPad could delay its move to SSDs

Published on: 9th March, 2010

Apple’s imminent launch of the iPad may affect the ability of other firms to use solid-state drives, according to some sources in the industry. The company already consumes over a third of all NAND flash memory supplies to produce iPhones and iPods, and making another primarily flash-based product could minimize supplies even more. By reducing [...]

External USB 3.0 SSDs from Active Media

Published on: 23rd February, 2010

Active Media Products has recently presented its 2.5-inch external SSD drives, which benefits from USB 3.0 ports. It is expected that the Aviator-2 SuperSpeed SSDs have a four times faster performance than other HDDs, which depend on USB 2.0 connections. The Aviator-2 also has 4.8Gbps. Inside the USB 3.0 Aviator-2 case stands Active Media’s 64GB [...]

Other World Computing releases new SSDs – Mercury Extreme Enterprise

Published on: 29th January, 2010

OWC (Other World Computing) has released its first range of solid state devices that it considers the fastest and the mot reliable 2.5-inch SATA SSD in the industry. The Mercury Extreme Enterprise SSD can be purchased in three sizes, capacities varying up to 200GB, and is compatible with either PCs or Macs. Thanks to the [...]

Quad-speed SSD and backlit keyboard to equip Sony VAIO Z

Published on: 12th January, 2010

One of the fastest storage drives ever equipping a notebook could soon turn to reality for Sony’s Z11 notebook that is on its way to the market. The 13.1-inch notebook already has the chance to be very fast thanks to a 128GB solid-state drive, but the promised “Quad SSD” would certainly increase its speed considerably. [...]

PlayStation 3 Slim to use SSDs and network-only storage?

Published on: 20th December, 2009

An interview in Nikkei with Masayuki Chatani, SCE’s technology platform head and strategy planning, revealed that Sony’s designers and engineers considered using network-only storage for the PlayStation 3 Slim gaming console, or even SSDs, although the console integrates typical HDDs. The high price of flash memory and some limitations of network bandwidth were, however, the [...]

First SSD and 7mm high HDD from Seagate

Published on: 13th December, 2009

Seagate has confirmed a change in its policy, after a historical fight against flash storage, by announcing the launch of the Pulsar solid-state drive. It is a 2.5-inch SATA drive, useful for notebooks but mainly targeted to servers, as well as other computers, where not only speed, but also longevity matters. The solid-state drive uses [...]

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