Tag Archive for 'ssd'
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, [...]
SSDs are, in many cases, faster and more energy efficient than traditional hard-drives, but there have been unanswered questions about how reliable longer-term they are. That might not be the highest concern for an individual user, but anyone thinking of outfitting a critical server with solid-state storage wants to be extra certain that their data [...]
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.
Dell’s Latitude XT convertible tablet PC is getting a multitouch upgrade tomorrow, which will introduce fingertip control from multiple contact points to the notebook’s capacitive touchscreen. The XT was the first tablet PC to use a capacitive panel, and at launch could recognise both fingertip and multi-tipped pen contact. Now it gets iPhone-style pinch zooming [...]
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 [...]
Back when MSI first announced their Wind budget ultraportable, one of the snarkier parts of the press release was their justification for using a traditional hard-drive rather than flash or SSD storage. MSI described rivals as having “compromised the memory capacity to decrease [their notebooks] in size”, picking instead a 2.5-inch 80GB HDD. Since then the company [...]
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 [...]
