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SanDisk Releases Flash Hard Drives For Laptops
News The debate between flash makers and hard drive manufacturers will be one of the big topics at the Computer Electronics Show and Storage Visions, which both take place next week in Las Vegas. While SanDisk shows off its flash drive there, drive...
[January 4, 2007, 11:13]
Flash Memory Flares Up
News The digital home is here, and the early beneficiaries are the makers of removable flash memory cards. Carriers in Asia have already begun to bundle cards with phones, which is a huge opportunity for flash cards," said Mario Morales, an analyst with...
[January 16, 2004, 16:05]
SanDisk's New Flash Drive Reveals Price Drop
News Drive makers also point out that laptop manufacturers are putting 80GB and 120GB drives in their notebooks so users can store video and music; flash makers can't match that kind of capacity without raising the price of notebooks sky high.
[March 14, 2007, 7:55]
Samsung Hybrid Hard Drive Extends Laptop Battery Life
News Samsung will make the drives themselves but also coach other drive makers on how to incorporate its flash into their drives. A hybrid hard drive is a hard drive that contains a flash memory chip that stores data and applications.
[May 16, 2006, 9:35]
Standard Tries To Unlock USB Keys' Potential
News Thus the companies created the U3 Limited Liability Company, headquartered in Redwood City, California, which will promote its U3 USB flash drive hardware specification for hardware makers and application program interfaces (APIs) for software...
[January 10, 2005, 8:55]
Flash-based Notebooks Plagued By Returns
News Inserting a flash-based drive into a notebook adds about $900 (around £450) or more to the price. Other flash storage makers have reported problems with SSDs, on condition of anonymity. While the returns are bad news for notebook makers right now...
[March 18, 2008, 11:41]
Hitachi Plans Power-saving Hybrid Laptops
News Inserting flash memory into a so-called hybrid hard drive, meanwhile, cuts down on battery consumption. The drive wakes up and spins only when the flash chips get full. Intel is promoting a similar, but different, technology called Robson where the...
[November 1, 2006, 8:55]
Samsung Shows Off Hard-drive Based Mobile
News Flash memory manufacturers and hard-drive makers will increasingly compete directly against each other. Although flash makers can more directly take advantage of Moore's Law, hard-drive makers can tweak their own technological knobs and will likely...
[December 7, 2004, 8:50]
Seagate Gears Up 1-inch Hard Drive
News The drive maker will also deliver this summer a Compact Flash Photo Hard Drive that uses flash memory and fits into the Compact Flash slot of a camera. Intense competition and cutthroat pricing make prospects for turning a profit fairly grim...
[June 14, 2004, 15:45]
Samsung Developing 2cm Hard Drives
News A tiny drive could store 4GB of data more cheaply than flash memory, he said, but flash is starting to encroach on the territory. Samsung and Toshiba are rather unusual players in the hard drive market because they also make flash memory.
[September 30, 2004, 11:05]
Industry Divided Over Future Of Hard Drives
News Additionally, Flash memory makers assert that their chips will start to displace drives in notebooks over the coming years. We need to maintain that 40 percent areal-density growth rate, at a minimum, to stay ahead of flash, and we are dang well...
[August 29, 2006, 13:25]
Hard-drive Makers Look To The Middle Ground
News Hard-drive manufacturers are contemplating a new-size hard drive to counter the challenge presented by flash memory. A 3.3cm drive would provide storage somewhere in between and conceivably provide it as a far lower cost than flash memory.
[April 4, 2006, 10:25]
CompactFlash Gets Storage Boost
News Separately, Toshiba also announced a suite of USB 2.0 flash drives in capacities from 128MB to 1GB, along with flash drive subassemblies for device makers. Toshiba on Thursday announced 4GB and 2GB CompactFlash cards for use in digital camcorders...
[January 7, 2005, 11:55]
Hybrid Hard Drive Alliance Formed
News The flash chips are used to store certain data that would otherwise be written to disk, so that it can be accessed quickly, without having wait for the hard drive to spin up. Hybrid drives will be able to take advantage of a new feature within...
[January 4, 2007, 16:10]
Seagate To Make Flash-based Hard Drives
News A 500GB desktop drive tends to sell for around $109 (£54) or roughly the same as two 4GB flash drives. Flash memory makers, however, have been increasing the density of their products and lowering the price.
[August 23, 2007, 16:33]
IBM Pulls Digital Tagging Plan
News The plan was under consideration by T13, an industry coalition of hard drive and flash memory makers. Under the plan, digital tags would have been incorporated into recordable CDs and flash memory cards used in MP3 players.
[February 23, 2001, 11:30]
Magnetised Protein Globules Talk In Binary Code
News I can see us doing 20 to 50 times the capacity per (chip) than they do," said Nanochip chief executive Gordon Knight, referring to flash memory makers. Hard-drive manufacturers regularly report financial losses and, until recently, profits in flash...
[July 26, 2004, 10:45]
Cornice Shrinks Its Portable Drives
News Hard-drive makers are in a race with flash-memory technology to fit more memory into smaller devices. Cornice says that its product can retail for about $18.50 per gigabyte, significantly cheaper than flash.
[January 3, 2006, 9:20]
Vista May Require "unproven" Drive Technology
News Hybrid hard drives save power, as they use solid state flash memory as a large cache, so the hard drive only spins up when the cache is full or needs refreshing, a useful feature with early betas of Vista criticised for draining batteries too fast.
[June 16, 2006, 13:30]
Flash Memory Heading For Mobiles
News The flash-memory industry is facing a bright future thanks to the evolution of consumer electronics and wireless devices, the chief executive of SanDisk said on Monday. Eli Harari, head of flash memory product maker SanDisk, told attendees at an...
[August 3, 2004, 15:15]
