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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 10 2011

Shane McGlaun, Mar 6th 2011 Discuss [1]

Welcome to the latest edition of the SlashGear Week in Review! There were big goings on this week in the tech world with a new tablet and lots more so let's get to it. The Kinect was hacked into a 3D scanner for turning the person it scans into a 3D foam bust. The pieces it makes are like foam puzzle pieces. Read The Full Story

Greenliant NANDrive is world’s first single-package SATA SSD

Shane McGlaun, Mar 1st 2011 Discuss [1]

A company called Greenliant from Germany has announced what it is claiming to be the world's first industrial-grade single package SATA SSD. The drive is called the NANDrive, uses the SATA interface, and can be had in 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB capacities. The drive is able to operate in harsher environments making it more robust and less prone to failure. Read The Full Story

Intel SSD 510 Series: 6Gbps SATA for up to 500 MB/s reads

Chris Davies, Feb 28th 2011 Discuss [4]

Intel has outed its latest SSD, the Intel SSD 510 Series, offering 6Gbps SATA connectivity. Boasting up to 500 MB/s read speeds (double the previous 3Gbps Intel SSDs) and up to 315 MB/s write speeds (more than triple the previous models), Intel reckons a single 510 Series drive is faster than a pair of RAIDed 10,000rpm gaming HDDs. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

OCZ Launches Vertex 3 and Vertex 3 Pro SATA SSDs

Samia Perkins, Feb 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

OCZ Technology Group announced today its next generation Vertex 3 SATA III SSD lineup. These will be for both client and enterprise applications. According to OCZ, the new series will deliver "double the performance of the previous generation." The release includes the Vertex 3 and the enterprise-class Vertex 3 Pro. See all the specs after the break. Read The Full Story

New MacBook Pro specs leak, plus Apple Thunderbolt Light Peak branding

Chris Davies, Feb 23rd 2011 Discuss [10]

New rumored specifications for the imminent MacBook Pro refresh have emerged, building on earlier leaks tipping 16GB mSATA boot SSDs across the range. According to French site MacGeneration, the 13-, 15- and 17-inch models will all be updated, complete with a Core i3 switch in the 13-incher, and the option to replace the SuperDrive DVD burner on the two larger versions with an SSD. Meanwhile, fscklog has acquired what's said to be a Apple's logo and branding for Thunderbolt, the company's name for Light Peak. Read The Full Story

SuperTalent CoreStore SSDs promise 350MB/s read & 220MB/s write rates

Chris Davies, Feb 22nd 2011 Discuss [0]

SuperTalent is promising hitherto-unseen SSD performance for desktop and mobile users, with the new CoreStore range of solid-state drives. Set to hit the market in March, the new SSDs will come in PCIe and and mini-PCIe formats, and boast up to 350 MB/s read and 220 Mb/s write rates. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Sony VAIO S Series: 13.3-inch ultraportable with 14hr runtime

Chris Davies, Feb 22nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Sony has outed its latest ultraportable range, the 13.3-inch VAIO S Series. Just 24mm thick and around 1.75kg, the S Series can be paired with a slice battery for up to 14hrs runtime, uses up to Intel's Core i7-2620M and 8GB of DDR3 memory (in the Sony VAIO VPC-SB1A9E/B) along with up to a 128GB SSD and AMD Radeon HD 6630M graphics doing double-duty with an Intel HD GPU. Read The Full Story

Microsoft FlashStore promises HDD/SSD-beating performance for Xbox LIVE & more

Chris Davies, Feb 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Microsoft is looking to boost Xbox LIVE online gaming speed, server farms and cloud apps using an injection of flash memory. Microsoft FlashStore works in a similar way to Seagate's hybrid Momentus XT drives, using a flash-based bridge between RAM and a traditional HDD; that bridge maintains not only a "working set" of the most commonly accessed data, but provides a computer's RAM with a hash-table-based index for speedier recall. Read The Full Story

SandForce ships a million SF-1500 and SF-1200 SSD processors in first year

Shane McGlaun, Feb 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

SandForce has announced that at the closing of the first full year that its SSD processors SF-1500 and SF-1200 have been on the market they have shipped a million units. These processors are in use in a wide range of SSD offerings from a variety of customers all around the country. Read The Full Story

Plextor M2 Series SSDs pack SATA 6Gb/s interface

Chris Davies, Feb 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Plextor has thrown open the doors to its M2 Series SSDs, offering SATA 6Gb/s support and up to 480MB/s sequential read rates. The drives - available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities - support the Windows 7 TRIM command, and have a 128MB DDR3 cache buffer and Marvel's 88SS9174 controller. Read The Full Story

HP TouchSmart 610 and 9300 Elite all-in-ones get deep-tilting desk stand

Chris Davies, Feb 7th 2011 Discuss [4]

HP has outed a pair of new TouchSmart all-in-one PCs, the HP TouchSmart 610 Consumer PC and HP TouchSmart 9300 Elite Business PC, each of which feature a new reclining hinge that allows them to tilt back by up to 60-degrees for easier desktop use. Each new TouchSmart has a 23-inch LED-backlit HD display (the 610 gets Beats audio, too), and HP reckons that, because of the flexible mount, they'll be a hit with families wanting to share multimedia and with businesses wanting to interact with customers on the same display. Read The Full Story

Active Media Products SATA Disk-on-Modules are first to hit 64GB

Shane McGlaun, Jan 31st 2011 Discuss [0]

Sometimes in an enterprise setting a server or other computer only needs a small amount of storage and that storage needs to be fast and compact to fit into a small enclosure. Active Media Products has just announced that it has new Disk-on-Modules specifically for the enterprise market. Read The Full Story