Tag Archive for 'ssd'
Canon have announced new camcorders in its iVIS range, which can record in the AVCHD format to either solid-state or hard-drive based storage. The iVIS HF11 comes with 32GB of onboard flash memory, while the iVIS HG21 has a 120GB HDD; both also include an SDHC card slot. Each uses a 3.31-megapixel CMOS sensor and [...]
Over at CrunchGear they’ve got fed up waiting for Apple or another manufacturer to decide to build a low-cost, super-thin web tablet, and so they’ve decided to put together something themselves. Aiming for an eventual $200 price point, the spec would be straightforward: a reasonably-sized touchscreen, the bare minimum in terms of grunt (since all [...]
Super Talent has taken their flagship MasterDrive SSD models back into the workshop and eked some more speed from them, increasing the rate at which each can write to its memory so as to ensure maximum performance in data-heavy applications. The three affected models - the 2.5-inch SATA-II DX and MX, and the 1.8-inch Micro SATA [...]
The words “cheap” and “SSD” don’t tend to cluster together all that much, which is a shame because many people would love to upgrade their tech with cool-running, fast-accessing solid-state storage. OCZ promised to (almost) change things, with their Core Series line of drives: the predicted retail prices are $169, $259 and $479 for 32GB, [...]
With flock of tiny netbook in the market, it’s about time for us to see one that is targeted towards education market, especially for the younger age tech consumer. Intel Classmate PC aka JumPC aka The Small has arrived in UK.
Apple has reduced the cost of specifying the solid-state drive option on its Air ultraportable notebook. The SSD, originally priced at $999, now costs $599 as an addition to the 1.6GHz entry-level Air. The 1.8GHz Air, which is pre-configured with the SSD, has dropped to $2,598.
Tablet PC manufacturer Motion has updated its handle-blessed range of C5 and F5 slates with new storage options, accessories and mobile broadband. The C5, which Motion describe as a Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) intended primarily for health workers, now has a choice of 80GB traditional hard-drive or a 32GB SSD, together with optional EV-DO.
Toshiba have announced a new version of the PortégéR500 ultraportable, which neatly takes the crown as the world’s lightest laptop with a 128GB SSD and DVD SuperMulti drive. Weighing in at 2.4 pounds and just 0.77-inches thick, the 12.1-inch notebook is apparently the first to market with 128GB solid-state storage. In the search for increasingly [...]
Last Friday, when Seagate announced its intention to build Enterprise-level SSDs, iSuppli analyst Krishna Chander described rival Western Digital as “too deeply lost” in traditional hard-drives. Today, rumors are spreading that WD, far from being “lost”, are in fact planning a platter-based alternative to high-speed solid-state storage. According to sources close to the hard-drive industry, WD [...]
Super Talent has announced a new range of 1.8-inch solid-state drives, the MasterDrive KX series, which at only 5mm thick could likely be squeezed into the smallest of UMPCs or MIDs. Using a Micro-SATA interface, the new models are available in 15GB, 30GB, 60GB and 120GB capacities. They also use up to 85-percent [...]
