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Solid-state drives 'cost effective' in 2009
News Solid-state hard drives will become cost-effective for many enterprise users in 2009, a report by a US analyst has suggested. Jack Gold, proprietor of J Gold Associates, believes that solid-state drives (SSDs) — hard drives based on non-volatile...
[June 15, 2007, 16:07]
Solid-state drives reach one terabyte
News The storage supplier pureSilicon on Thursday announced its Nitro Series of solid-state drives, with a maximum capacity of one terabyte in a 2.5-inch format. The Nitro Series of drives will be available in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB...
[January 12, 2009, 15:27]
Solid State Drives and Data Loss
Blog So the DriveGuard is for the standard rotating mechanical drives, and has nothing to do with the solid state drive (or the screen). It features an 80GB solid state drive, a feature we're seeing more and more in netbooks these days, which means...
[January 30, 2009, 7:30]
Intel cuts prices of solid-state drives
News Intel has cut the prices of many of its solid-state drives by around a third, claiming that its SSD production is now fully up and running. Intel only began selling its solid-state drives in the second half of last year, their pricing significantly...
[February 6, 2009, 15:31]
Dell introduces solid state drives
News Dell has introduced solid state drives into two of its corporate notebooks. Solid state drives (SSDs) — as opposed to traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) — are based on flash or volatile memory and therefore do not have any moving parts.
[April 26, 2007, 12:55]
Dell launches solid-state drives
News Dell is now offering two 32GB solid-state drives for the ultra-mobile and semi-rugged markets. Based on SanDisk's technology, the solid-state drives (SSDs) will at first be offered on the Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and D620 ATG semi-rugged notebook.
[May 15, 2007, 12:12]
Seagate to avoid solid-state drives for now
News The chief executive of storage company Seagate said on Tuesday that, while flash memory and solid-state drives are becoming increasing popular, he does not see his company moving into the market in the immediate future.
[November 5, 2008, 14:09]
EMC to launch 146GB solid-state drives
News EMC has announced it will sell flash-based solid-state drives for the first time. Flash-based solid-state drives are currently 30 times more expensive than conventional drives. Solid-state drives (SSDs), which first gained prominence through use in...
[January 15, 2008, 7:33]
Intel starts shipping 160GB solid-state drives
News Intel has begun shipping its 160GB solid-state drives, the manufacturer announced on Monday. The Sata solid-state drives (SSDs) were first announced in April, and come in two form factors — the 2.5-inch X25-M model is shipping to laptop...
[December 23, 2008, 11:37]
Intel to launch high-capacity solid-state drives
News Intel is planning to launch high-speed, high-capacity solid-state drives in the second quarter of this year. According to ZDNet.co.uk's sister site CNET News.com, the chip giant will be pushing out 1.8- and 2.5-inch solid-state drives (SSDs) with...
[March 13, 2008, 12:27]
Dell launches 256GB solid-state drives for XPS
News Dell has increased the capacity of the solid-state drives on its range of XPS laptops, but not the price — at least as far as the US is concerned. On Saturday a Samsung-manufactured 256GB SSD appeared on Dell's US website as an option for the XPS...
[January 19, 2009, 16:46]
Solid State Drives and Data Loss
Blog Comment Having been messing around with Compact Flash drives for 8 years at least, I'd would've wondered as well on the DriveGuard spec! Even running Windows XP Pro or Visaster Business Edition, an 80 GB drive is plenty of space.
[February 2, 2009, 7:47]
Platypus makes a solid state splash
News Describing the QikDATA as core to the company's development plans, Platypus Technology general manger, Anthony Lynn said he expected the solid state storage device to take off in the wake of the product's release.
[October 22, 2001, 9:43]
32GB solid state disk comes to UK notebooks
News Unlike regular hard drives, solid state drives (SSDs) contain no moving parts. Samsung's 32GB solid state notebook drive is now available in the UK through distributor Just Rams, the company said on Tuesday.
[May 22, 2007, 18:18]
IBM adds flash to storage virtualisation
News IBM has updated its storage virtualisation product, the SAN Volume Controller, to support solid-state drives. Solid-state drives have previously been available in storage arrays and as direct-attached storage.
[October 19, 2009, 9:34]
Micron unveils server-grade SSDs
News Micron Technology has announced two new lines of solid-state drives, one of which could offer huge performance and power-management benefits in servers, according to the company. We are seeing SSD [solid-state drive] interest in a variety of...
[August 5, 2008, 13:06]
Toshiba brings out business-card-sized SSDs
News Toshiba has unveiled solid-state drives based on the new mini-Sata interface standard, which lets manufacturers create very small drives for use in netbooks and other portable or embedded devices. Our latest 32nm mSata and Half-Slim caseless...
[September 22, 2009, 13:30]
Samsung mass producing 256GB SSDs
News Samsung is now mass producing 256GB solid-state drives, the manufacturer announced on Wednesday. The company first revealed the 256GB multi-level cell solid-state drives (SSDs) in May. The 2.5-inch SSD is larger in capacity than any solid-state...
[November 20, 2008, 14:48]
EMC launches higher-capacity enterprise flash
News EMC has extended its range of solid-state disk storage with the launch of two 'Enterprise Flash' drives with 200GB and 400GB capacities. Compared with traditional storage, solid-state drives (SSDs) are very expensive, so organisations that want to...
[March 19, 2009, 14:10]
Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB) review
Reviews Instead of storing data on traditional hard disks, solid-state drives use large blocks of flash-based NAND memory, which means these drives have no moving parts to malfunction over time. The price-per-gigabyte of a typical 160GB hard drive (~25p...
[October 9, 2008, 11:42]
