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more about #ssd Kirkaiya: Maybe we'll eventually see PCs and notebooks with built-in high-speed, low-capacity SSDs from which to boot (I'd love to see Win7 cold-boot in 6 secon... more » blash: I'm gonna give it the boot for not being bootable. #fusionioioxtreme more » B-low: Just buy two or three SSDs and RAID (stripe) them for the same price. You get so much more storage and equivalent performance. Since SSDs are pretty r... more » yemski: If intel keeps putting out these 'thoroughly' tested firmwares, they'll replace magnetic drives in 100 years - signed the owner of a bricked SSD more » Bluecold:Of volcanic temperament but soothed by a custard pie balsam.: Which brings us to the 3-day firmware rule. Always wait 3 days before flashing a new firmware. #intelbrickedssdbug more » psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!: Alright! Intel Paper Weights! #intelbrickedssdbug more » matt_mcmhn: So is there some sort of compensation for all the people Intel appears to have fucked? I don't have an SSD and I don't know what exactly happens when ... more » bagellord: I wonder how long it will take for SSD's to replace magnetic disks? #intelbrickedssdbug more » SplotchEleven: I'm building a system that outclasses this with a Cooler Master ATCS 840 case.... for hundreds less. It's a novel design and if the customer care is ... more » Chewbenator: Judging by the logos on the inside of the 5.25" drive bays that case is designed by Silverstone. Silverstone has also introduced cases with the verti... more » Lukasz Fabis: Wait. Am I getting this right? A custom gaming PC maker is focusing on making actual PCs with a clean aesthetic and not clunky, garish things that loo... more » Bertone77: That case is awesome, I wish more computers came with aluminium/metal cases instead of boring plastic. But if it's going to over inflates the price by... more » Jesustron: I don't get why people BUY custom PCs, the fun part is getting all those parts in the mail and putting it together yourself and paying as little as hu... more » met2art: If it's really If it was really "Enterprise" grade it would look like this: more » JosephRaymond: meanwhile I can get 1TB in a 4.3 x 3.2 x .6in package from Western Digital for less than the 64GB. I also don't get the point of external SSD. with US... more » portugee11: OWC -- great products, great service, and reasonably priced. Their website is bland (at best), but they are a peripherals company... what do you expect? more » DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his stapler.: You know what would have been great? If the new TF movie had a PC as Soundwave... He could house laserbeak and ravage as SSD's instead of cassette t... more » pressstart: Were there a few problems with harddisks like these back in its infancy? I recall another SSD issue from some manufacturer that made it really slow. more » AgentSmithAndWeston: @ kaiz3n : Yeah, I could buy a used car in my town and a 1TB HDD for 2200, but I doubt they'd look as good as the Colossus. But SSD's can't get me ... more » jkrell: Once prices come down, these bad boys are goin' in my Dell XPS. more » -
#ssds
Fusion-io IoXtreme SSD: Fastest Consumer SSD on the Market
HotHardware took a look at this consumer-focused PCI-Express SSD from Fusion-io, and found that while it's pretty damn expensive at $900 for 80GB, it's blazingly fast, hitting 700MB/s read and 300MB/s write speeds. More » -
#desktops
Maingear Shift's Spartan Case Belies Meaty High Performance PC Line
Maingear, the custom PC maker and purveyor of tramp stamp laptops, has let loose a duo of simplistic-looking desktop towers this morning designed to "shed the bling" and focus instead on what's going down inside the case. More » -
#storage
Enterprise-Grade SSD Promises Read Speeds of 500 MB/s
Relatively-new startup Pliant Technology claims their 3.5-inch enterprise SSD can read at speeds up to 500 megabytes per seconds and write 320 megabytes per second. Basically, you could copy the contents of a 2 terabyte drive in around an hour. More » -
#nowavailable
Now Available
OWC closes out this week of gadget shipments with some reasonably priced solid state drives. More » -
#storage
Massive 1TB OCZ Colussus SSD Priced, Ships Soon
Taiwan's OCZ Technologies is reportedly just three weeks out from shipping its Colossus solid state drive range, which will come in 128GB to 1TB capacities. And courtesy of Engadget, we now have pricing. More » -
#storage
Intel Pulls Back New Shipments of X-25M and X-18M SSDs Due to Data Corruption Bug
Intel halted shipments of their fancy new 34nm, X-25M and X-18M SSDs to retailers because a data corruption bug occurs when you set a BIOS password, then try to alter that password in any way. More » -
#storage
Intel's X25-M G2 SSD Comes With a Shiny Silver Enclosure, 10% Performance Bump
We've talked about the Intel's X-series SSD drives, but now there are benchmarks to go along with the speculation about Intel's claims and they're not a complete letdown. More » -
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#storage
A Guide To Finding The Best SSD For Your Money
If you want to boost your computer's performance, solid state drives can deliver. However, if you find the choices out there to be daunting, LaptopMag's comprehensive SSD roundup can help you get the most performance for your money. More » -
#storage
Lexar Media Crucial SSDs Will Force Some Speed Into Your Notebook
Well, we were impressed by Corsair's 240/170MB/s read/write speeds, but the new Crucial line tops it with a 250MB/s read and 200MB/s write. Even better, the Crucial SSDs are available right now. More » -
#ssds
Corsair's New Extreme SSD Line Is Blazingly Fast
Corsair just announced their new Extreme Line of SSDs, coming in 32/64/128GB capacities. So they're not going to win a storage space award, but these little guys are fast—Corsair's claiming read speeds of 240MB/s and 170MB/s write speeds. More » -
#review
Toshiba Portege R600 Review: 512GB SSDs Are the Bee's Knees
Just last summer, Toshiba's Portege R500 was the first laptop with a 128GB SSD. A year later, Toshiba's Portege R600 is the world's first 512GB SSD lappie. So for this one moment, Toshiba is on the top of the world. More » -
#storage
Upgrading the SSD in a Netbook Makes a Difference
Netbooks are netbooks. Usually based on Intel's Atom chipset, and generally not that fast. What you gonna do? Well, I upgraded the SSD in my Hackintosh. Not just to bump the drive from 32 to 128GB, but for SPEED. More » -
#storage
Hard Rectangular Drive Is Faster, More Efficient Than SSD
British scientists have developed a new breed of hard drive that uses not spinning discs, but rather a rectangular platter and millions of moving data heads to read/write data. In theory, this could mean transfer speeds of 500 MB/s. More » -
#ssd
Western Digital's SiliconDrive III Lineup Are Their First SSD Offerings
Western Digital just made their first move into the SSD world by announcing that their now shipping the SiliconDrive III lineup (presumably to OEMs), promising storage capacities up to 120 GB and read/write speeds of 100 and 80 MB/sec, respectively. More » -
#storage
InnoDisk's 128 GB NanoSSD Is the Size of a Matchbox, but Still Zips Around
The InnoDisk NanoSSD amazingly packs 128-gigabytes of storage into a form factor not much bigger than a matchbox. And to top it off, InnoDisk claimes the drive still reads and writes at around 150 MB/s. Wow. More » -
#flash
JMicron NAND Flash Controller Could Slash SSD Prices By 50%
JMicron is preparing to debut its new NAND flash controller at Computex, and with it the company intends to boast it can slash SSD pricing by 50% in time for the holiday season. More » -
#windows7
Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista, SSD Edition
A lot of the hype around Windows 7 is predicated on how well it'll run on modest hardware, especially SSD-equipped netbooks. It certainly feels faster than Vista, but HotHardware's battery of disk benchmarks confirms: it really, really is. More » -
#flash
Flash Storage Is About to Hit a Brick Wall
That dire warning comes from SanDisk's CEO Eli Harari. The capacity of flash chips has doubled 19 times in 14 years to 64 billion bits, currently. But Harari says they're "running out of electrons." More »
