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more about #ssds more comments → Gordonium: Well, that sounds spiffy and all, but every Seagate drive that I or my brother have ever owned has died within three years. I just don't trust the nam... more » Ssscorpion: Five year lifespan? I thought the big advantage of SSD was no moving parts. Why does it have the same lifespan as my spinning hard drive that will be ... more » blash: Well, last I checked Intel sold some 40 GB SLC drives with specs close to that for around $390 on Newegg? So we'll see how the prices are. $300 for th... more » Italianguy: These SSD use some sort of flash memory right? So is the life expectancy 5 years because after that estimated time it’ll be worn out (not able to be... more » HungryMoose: These SSDs are SLC-based which means that rather than costing the usual arm and leg, they will also cost you your eldest child. I'm holding out some h... more » andrelix: Someones got to say it, so.... Macbook Pro update in January maybe??? more » gemcosta: Is the performance boost really that worth it? I see the advantages of SSD, but I can't see anyone justifying the price when given the option to buy a... more » bainelaker: I don't trust drives that explode via Lens Flare.. more » Nathan Obbards: Isn't Micron the company that released the JMicron controller chips that were horrendous in the early SSDs until Samsung and Intel showed them how it ... more » olternaut: Woh woh woh woh wohhhhhhhhhhhhh..........woh! 3GB/s??? Is that real world speeds? And is that even possible on a SATA connection? I thought the ho... more » Ajh: Don't SSD wear out after so many read write? Will this have the same durability as the current hard drives? I don't know about you all but I download... more » w0ng3r: While I submitted this tip sometime ago, I realized that for that money you could saturate SATAII's bandwidth with a bunch of regular drives in raid a... more » Nathan Obbards: I wouldn't call that hacking speeds, I'd call it being smart on the part of OCZ. more » chauncy that billups: $3,300 today, $330 a year from now, $33 two years from now. more » J2M3: Can you imagine the day these cost the same as magnetic drives? Laptops and PCs will finally rid themselves of one of the largest bottlenecks in syste... more » -
#ssds
Seagate Pulsar is the Drive Maker's First Solid-State Drive
Seagate just announced their first line of SSDs, named Pulsar. It's a 2.5-inch drive in slightly odd 50GB, 100GB and 200GB sizes, and it looks ready to compete with the current SSD leaders.
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#ssds
Micron RealSSD Drives Claim Title of World's Fastest (by a Lot)
Micron's new C300 2.5-inch SSDs are incredibly fast. We're talking 50% faster than the current market leaders, and fast enough to downright shame any hard drive. Yeah, there's a new SSD speed champ every week, but these are damned impressive. More » -
#ssds
OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds
OCZ's new Colossus drives are among the first SSDs designed for desktops, and they're the very first to store up to 1TB of data. Oh, and on top of all that, they work pretty well, too. 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 » -
#standards
mSATA: It's Like SATA But Smaller
You've heard of SATA. It's the technology used for the majority of today's hard drives and people generally like it. But SATA wasn't designed for tiny portables. That's why the guys behind SATA are introducing mini-SATA, or mSATA for short. More » -
#ssds
OCZ Firmware Update Fixes "Dirty" SSDs In Its Spare Time
Modern SSDs might not "fragment" in the same way your old 9GB FAT32 drive did, but they've got their own, possibly worse problems. OCZ, along with Indilinx, say they've got a "garbage collection" firmware that'll clear things right up. More » -
#storage
Intel Updates SSD Line: A Little Bit Faster, A Little Bit Cheaper
It's been about a year since Intel's quick-but-pricey Intel's X-series SSDs started the market, so it's about time for refresh. And hey, look: It's a fresh pair of 34nm X25-M drives! (Spoiler: They're almost exactly like the last ones.) 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 » -
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#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#camcorders
Samsung HMX-H106, the First 64GB SSD 1080p Camcorder, Ships May 22nd for $900
Spotted at CES in January and rumored for an April release, Samsung's capacious, thermos-like HMX-H106 only just started shipping in Korea today. But it's not coming here until late May, and it'll set you back. More » -
#storage
Super Talent Ships 512GB, $1,500 MasterDrive RX SSD
The largest consumer SSD is now shipping from Super Talent, and it's a big 'un at 512GB. Read/write speeds are clocked (by Super Talent) at 230/160 MB/sec, respectively. [Super Talent, Product Page via Hot Hardware] -
#peripherals
Pretec 128GB ExpressCard SSD Is The Largest, Most Paranoid of Its Kind
Something about plugging accessories into card slots feels kind of, I don't know, 90s to me. That is, unless the accessory is a 128GB, hardware-encrypted SSD. More » -
#ssds
Super Talent SSDs Boost Netbook Flash Storage To 64GB For $169
Not a bad price at all on a mini-PCIe solid-state drive. These are intended for the Eee PC S101, but will work with any machine that can take mini-PCIe add-ons. More » -
#ssd
SanDisk's G3 SSDs Deliver 40,000 RPM Speeds Without Breaking the Bank
SanDisk's new G3 SSD drives are set to offer read speeds equivalent to a 40,000RPM platter drive at prices that won't make you queasy. The age of SSD laptops is looking imminent. More » -
#storage
Fusion-io ioDrive Is The Fastest Storage Device in the World
The ioDrive is a PCI Express storage card that can write at up to 368 MB/s and read at 473 MB/s to its NAND flash memory—or, for the layman: really, really damn fast. More »
