Tag Archive for 'ssd'
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 [...]
The major news this week came out of Google’s IO Conference, with the Android team unveiling the latest build of the mobile platform and a slick touchscreen handset to demonstrate it on. We usually leave cellphone news to our sister sites PHONE Magazine and SlashPhone, but the Android handset - complete with compass-navigated Street View [...]
Seagate has confirmed that it will enter the SSD market, but maintains that demand for traditional hard-drives will continue as users prove reluctant to give up cheap cost-per-gigabyte storage. CEO Bill Watkins has described the upcoming solid-state drives as intended for enterprise use, the only market segment, he claims is willing and able to stump up [...]
As solid-state drives gain popularity, we’ve seen a few products that offer a way to retro-fit flash-based storage to your notebook, usually in the form of an adaptor that allows you to plug one or more Compact Flash cards into a traditional hard-drive socket. Steve from UMPC Portal has taken the plunge and used a Ably-Tech PA-CF18Z [...]
Samsung have hammered another nail into platter-based hard-drives with the arrival of its latest solid-state storage. A 2.5-inch drive, the new SSD has a massive 256GB storage and uses the SATA II interface, boasting transfer speeds up to 2.4 times faster than the equivalent traditional drive. In fact, data access rates reach a sequential read speed of [...]
While trying desperately to ramp up Atom production, Intel are also looking to the future of their Centrino platform, with the upcoming Centrino 2 Montevina chipset looking likely to include solid-state drives (SSD). According to sources at PC manufacturers, Intel is looking to release SSDs by the end of Q3 2008, in recognition of the [...]
