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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]
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]
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]
Utilizing Solid State Disks In The Financial Industry
White Papers This is being accomplished by implementing faster servers, more powerful applications, high-bandwidth networks, and high-performance storage, such as solid state disks. Solid state disks are a cost-effective way to improve application performance...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
The Solid State Disk Comes Of Age In Storage Area Networks
White Papers This white paper discusses and examines how the Solid State Disk Comes of Age in Storage Area Networks.
[April 20, 2004, 0:00]
32GB Solid State Disk Comes To UK Notebooks
News Samsung's 32GB solid state notebook drive is now available in the UK through distributor Just Rams, the company said on Tuesday. Unlike regular hard drives, solid state drives (SSDs) contain no moving parts.
[May 22, 2007, 18:18]
Increase Application Performance With Solid State Disks
White Papers This white paper presents solid state disks as a cost-effective way to improve application performance. Application performance can be finicky. One day an application is slowed by network latencies; another day it can be impacted by processor...
[August 30, 2007, 0:00]
Faster Oracle Performance With Solid State Disks
White Papers This whitepaper discusses methods for improving Oracle database performance, using solid state disks to accelerate the most resource-intensive data that slows performance across the board. To this end, it discusses methods for identifying I/O...
[August 30, 2007, 0:00]
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]
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]
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]
The Sorry State Of Solid State
Leader One of the most desirable items for any enthusiastic early adopter of IT is the solid-state disk drive, or SSD. Solid state should mean faster and safer, yet reliable sources suggest that up to 30 percent of SSD-equipped laptops are being returned.
[March 18, 2008, 17:29]
BitMicro Announces 1.6TB Solid-state Drive
News BitMicro Networks has announced plans for a 1.6TB solid state drive the size of a standard 3.5-inch hard disk. The Altima E3S320 solid state is the first in the 3.5-inch format to advertise a capacity above 1TB.
[February 8, 2008, 11:46]
One Day Son, All This Will Be Solid State
Blog The days of whirring, fragile hard disks are surely numbered, now that we're seeing a stonking 416GB of SSD goodness stuffed into a 2.5" form factor. As Engadget points out, we're probably talking some serious money for this marvel, but it's a good...
[September 11, 2007, 16:33]
Secure Deletion Of Data From Magnetic And Solid-State Memory
White Papers With the use of increasingly sophisticated encryption systems, an attacker wishing to gain access to sensitive data is forced to look elsewhere for information. One avenue of attack is the recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media or...
[March 1, 2004, 23:00]
Dialogue Box 3.2: Why The Wait For Solid State?
Articles Dialogue Box finds out what's driving hard-disk replacements.
[March 18, 2008, 9:22]
IC Source Pinpoints Best Deal With RamSan Solid State Disk From Texas Memory Systems
White Papers IC Source, Inc.has been serving the time-critical and complex needs of electronic components brokers since 1996 with its advanced inventory database application. The company wanted to improve competitiveness of trading forum by eliminating backlog...
[September 11, 2007, 0:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The economists might look a little wan these days, but there are rosy cheeks on the solid-state physicists as basic R&D continues apace. Ah well, that's solid-state physics for you. Monday 25/06/2001 IBM continues to do the sort of old-style...
[June 29, 2001, 18:19]
Samsung Promotes Flash Drives For PCs
News The company announced Monday that it has developed a "solid-state disk" using flash memory for PCs. The company said the solid state disk is made up of 8Gb chips and consumes power at a rate of less than 5 percent of current hard-disk drives.
[May 24, 2005, 9:35]
Intel Unveils Glimpse Of Chip Future
News Intel will give a glimpse of what the insides of computers might look like in a few years when it presents research results at the International Solid State Circuits Conference. Researchers from the chipmaker will present papers at the...
[February 17, 2004, 7:30]
