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Foremay to ship world’s fastest 1.8-inch SSD

Shane McGlaun, Nov 3rd 2010 Discuss [0]

If all out speed is what you want when it comes to the hardware in your various gadgets, a company called Foremay (PDF) has a new SSD that you will like. The company claims the new SSD is the world's fastest 1.8-inch SSD. The little drive is only 3mm to 5mm thick and uses micro SATA interface. The real news is the fast performance. Read The Full Story

Kingston outs 96GB SSD aimed at enterprise

Shane McGlaun, Nov 2nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Kingston has been peddling SSDs to the consumer and enterprise user for a while now and has a vast range of capacities and offerings to choose from. The company has announced its latest SSD that is specifically aimed at the enterprise users in corporate client systems. The new SSD has a strange storage capacity of 96GB. Read The Full Story

PhotoFast GM2 SFV1 256GB SSD upgrade kit for 11.6″ MacBook Air outed

Chris Davies, Oct 27th 2010 Discuss [1]

iFixit weren't exactly impressed with the new MacBook Air's upgrade potential, with Apple soldering the RAM into place and using a non-standard SSD, but that hasn't stopped PhotoFast from coming out with a new accessory. The GM2 SFV1 offers 256GB for your 11.6-inch Air (for which Apple only offers a 128GB option), as well as bundling a USB 3.0 adapter to make the most of the SSD you've removed. Read The Full Story

Angelbird SSD cards can grow with incremental awesomeness

Shane McGlaun, Oct 22nd 2010 Discuss [6]

SSDs have been on the market now and we all know the benefits of the SSD compared to a normal HDD when it comes to performance and power savings. The typical SSD connects to the computer using the same SATA interface that a normal HDD uses. The problem with that is that the data transfer rates are bottlenecked by the interface in many applications. Read The Full Story

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MacBook Air 2010 hands-on

Vincent Nguyen, Oct 20th 2010 Discuss [0]

Apple’s “one more thing” today was the company’s new MacBook Air 2010 models, 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch slices of unibody aluminum promising up to 5hrs and 7hrs respectively of wireless browsing time. We’ve just gone hands-on with the pair, and they’re slick, beautiful machines that will likely persuade many Apple Store shoppers just from a quick play in-store.

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Sharkoon unveils new USB 3.09 SATA QuickPort Mini dock for SSDs and HDDs

Shane McGlaun, Oct 19th 2010 Discuss [0]

Sharkoon is tossing a new docking station of some sort onto the market every time I look around it seems. The latest offering from the company is the QuickPort Mini for 2.5" SATA HDDs and it can be had with a USB 3.0 port or a slower USB 2.0 port. Read The Full Story

MacBook Air dual refresh confirmed? 13.3″ & 11.6″ with super-fast boot tipped

Chris Davies, Oct 18th 2010 Discuss [0]

More anonymous sources have come forward with MacBook Air refresh information, corroborating leaks over the weekend about what Apple are tipped to be announcing at their "Back to the Mac" event this coming Wednesday. According to Cult of Mac's "well-placed source", Apple is indeed readying two versions of the new MacBook Air, a direct 13.3-inch replacement to the current model and a smaller, 11.6-inch "netbook" version. Read The Full Story

New MacBook Air prototype leaks amid SSD Card and screen size speculation

Chris Davies, Oct 16th 2010 Discuss [3]

Apple's "Back to the Mac" event next week is expected to see a new MacBook Air take center stage, but the latest batch of leaks can't seem to decide on what exact form the next-gen ultraportable might take. Engadget's anonymous tipster sent them a shot of what's said to be the guts of the new machine, with extra battery room, a 13.3-inch display (with unibody MacBook-style hinge) and no space for a regular hard-drive or SSD. The last part chimes with AppleInsider's sources, who reckon Apple is using an "SSD Card" which packs solid-state storage into something more akin to a stick of RAM. However, they also claim that it's "certain" that Apple has switched to a smaller display size, just 11.6-inches, and that such machines have been running off production lines for a week already. Read The Full Story

Iomega USB 3.0 SSD drives offer performance at a price

Chris Davies, Oct 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

Iomega has launched a range of new USB 3.0 portable SSD drives, promising high performance and rugged resilience, though you'll need reasonably deep pockets to afford them. Three models in the (rather boringly named) Iomega External SSD Flash Drive USB 3.0 series will be available: 64GB for $229, 128GB for $399, and 256GB for $749. Read The Full Story

Mushkin announces EP series SSDs with SandForce SF-2500/2600 controllers

Shane McGlaun, Oct 13th 2010 Discuss [1]

Since SandForce announced the new SSD controllers called the SF-2500 and SF-2600 different makers of SSD storage have been rushing to announce new SSDs that use the tech are coming to market. The latest company to announce new storage products using the new SandForce controllers is Mushkin. Read The Full Story

Viking Modular SSDs with SandForce SF-2500 and SF-2600 controllers due in Q1

Shane McGlaun, Oct 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

Viking Modular has announced that it has incorporated the recently announced new controllers from SandForce into some SSD offerings that will hit the market in Q1 2011. The new controllers that are being used are the SF-2500 and the SF-2600. These second-generation SandForce controllers are designed to allow high-density NAND storage to operate reliably. Read The Full Story

Intel X25-M and X25-E SSDs third-gen update previewed

Chris Davies, Oct 6th 2010 Discuss [3]

Details of Intel's third-generation solid-state drives have spilled, with AnandTech getting their hands on the specifications. According to their source, the new SSDs are internally known as "Postville Refresh" ("Postville" being the codename for the second-gen drives) but which will launch using the same Intel X25-M nomenclature as before. Read The Full Story