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SaberTooth ZF Turbo ZIF 1.8″ SSD for notebooks debuts

Shane McGlaun, Jan 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

Active Media Products has announced a new SSD that is a replacement for notebooks and netbooks that use 1.8-inch storage drives inside. The new drive is called the SaberTooth ZF Turbo ZIF SSD. The storage drive connects to machines using parallel ATA (PATA/IDE) ZIF interface. Read The Full Story

Swiss Army Knife Secure SSD and Apple Secure thumb drives revealed

Chris Davies, Jan 18th 2011 Discuss [0]

Victorinox's Slim and Slim Duo flash-drive hiding Swiss Army Knives aren't the only new folding storage from the company; there's also an Apple-friendly compact drive with integrated biometrics and an SSD with an integrated e-paper display. The Victorinox Secure SSD not only manages to be the world's smallest 256GB SSD, but packs in a 96 x 48 monochrome display for status updates. Read The Full Story

OCZ leaves memory module market to focus on SSDs

Shane McGlaun, Jan 13th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you are a computer enthusiast, you are probably familiar with OCZ. OCZ has been making RAM for computers for a very long time and RAM is what put the company on the map for enthusiasts looking for some speedy memory that was up to the task of overclocking for their rigs. Read The Full Story

OWC Mercury Aura Pro SSD Unveiled for Earlier MacBook Air Models at CES 2011

Evan Selleck, Jan 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Other World Computing has officially announced their brand new Mercury Aura Pro SSDs at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, aiming the new drives at earlier models of Apple's MacBook Air notebook line-up. The drives are meant for the first generation MacBook Air models. Read The Full Story

Micron RealSSD C400 high-speed NAND headed to Crucial m4 SSD

Chris Davies, Jan 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

Micron has outed its latest RealSSD range of solid-state drive memory, built using 25nm NAND flash and squeezing from 64GB to 512GB into 1.8- and 2.5-inch form-factors. Connectivity is via the SATA 6Gb/s interface, and Micron is claiming impressive 415 MB/s read rates and up to 260 MB/s write rates; that's 17-20-percent faster than the fastest Micron C300 drive. Read The Full Story

Lenovo IdeaPady Y560d, Y470 & Y570 boast sub-10s boot with SDD/HDD combo

Chris Davies, Jan 3rd 2011 Discuss [1]

Lenovo's new Y Series notebooks have made their CES 2011, and the company reckons that they're the fastest booting PCs around. The Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d, Y470 and Y570 get second-gen Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 processors along with NVIDIA GT 550M 1GB switchable graphics, but it's the optional Lenovo RapidDrive SSD that pairs HDD and SDD storage to achieve sub-10 second boot times. Read The Full Story

Intel 310 Series SSDs Weighs the Same as Two Nickels, Doesn’t Slack on Features

Evan Selleck, Dec 29th 2010 Discuss [1]

As our favorite things in tech get smaller, it's hard to imagine that they still pack the same features, if not more, than the bigger versions in the past. But, it keeps happening over and over again, and now we see the same thing coming from Intel yet again. They've just announced their brand new 310 Series of Solid State Drives (SSDs), and they're happy to show off the ridiculously small size. Best of all, though, is that the company managed to pack in all of the same features and power of the x25-class of SSDs that these are meant to replace. Read The Full Story

Reviews

OCZ Vertex 2 SSD Review

Vincent Nguyen, Dec 24th 2010 Discuss [2]

Fast, silent and power-efficient; it seems like the only thing not to like about SSDs is the price. OCZ has sent over its Vertex 2 SSD, a 120GB model that straddles the performance/price boundary at around $220. Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Harddrive with a Trackpad Concept

Chris Burns, Dec 17th 2010 Discuss [2]

So we've got a concept here, and it's branded LaCie, but that's almost certainly just added in post-production by the designer André Silva. This is what he calls LaCie Float, a harddrive whose bulk not only appears to float above the ground because of its slightly smaller glass base, but has a strange feature on top of that, too. The entire top panel of this HDD (there's an SSD version too) is a trackpad. You know what that means? Read The Full Story

Toshiba unveils enterprise class SSD

Shane McGlaun, Dec 14th 2010 Discuss [0]

Toshiba has unveiled a new enterprise class SSD for the business market that is a 2.5-inch form factor device using 32nm SLC NAND for storage. The SSDs connect to 6Gb/sec SCSI SAS interface and Toshiba plans to make samples available in Q1 2011 with mass production set for the first half of 2011. Read The Full Story

RunCore offers SSD specials for Christmas

Shane McGlaun, Dec 14th 2010 Discuss [0]

RunCore has announced that it is offering some special deals on a couple of its SSD upgrade products just in time for geeky Christmas giving. The deals will see some impressive discounts on a pair of its consumer focused SSD devices. Read The Full Story

Toshiba Power Outage Stops Flash Memory Supply

Chris Burns, Dec 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

Toshiba sent out a news bit today saying that their Yokkaichi plant is in the midst of a power outage and that this failure (at 5:21AM yesterday) could affect flash memory supply. This failure wont be fixed until sometime Friday, the supply hit planned for shipments toward January and February of 2011. No estimates were given on how this will affect Toshiba's partners or if their products will be able to ship on time. Apple, who is currently using Toshiba for their MacBook Air's SSD, is said to be fine since it also depends on Samsung and Hynix. Read The Full Story