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HDDBOOST Fuses SSDs with HDDs for Speed Made Cheap

So, the HDDBOOST may be ridiculously brilliant. It's a hard drive bay that offers SATA connections to both a normal hard drive and a solid state drive. Ultimately, it promises the speeds of SSD with the storage capacity of HDD. More »

02/04/10

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By Mark Wilson

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Intel and Micron's 25nm NAND Flash: The Secret to Cheap SSDs

Intel and Micron's IMFT joint venture's just announced they've started producing NAND flash using 25nm transistors—they're pushing 8GB on a single die—with products shipping sometime this year in fatter capacities (up to 600GB). In English: More »

02/01/10

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By matt buchanan

#gizexplains

Giz Explains: SSDs and Why You Wish You Had One

Speed. Toughness. Efficiency. Silence. That's why we want solid-state drives in our computers. But we worry about the zoom-zoom performance degrading over time, and the fact that SSDs might eventually wear out. Here's what you need to know about 'em. More »

01/21/10

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By matt buchanan

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Kingston SSDNow V 30GB Flash Drive for $80

Lost in the CES maelstrom, we missed the Kingston SSDNow V 30GB, a solid state hard drive designed to run your operating system, faster faster, kill kill, pussycat. The best thing is the price: Only $80 after rebates. More »

01/15/10

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By Jesus Diaz

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Video: ioSafe Goes Crazy—Burns, Drowns, and Crushes Solo SSD To Prove Toughness

We traveled to the desert wilds of Vegas, to watch ioSafe literally GO CRAZY in their thirst to prove that their Solo SSDs are tougher than Rambo. It survived being set fire to, drowned and crushed under 25t of weight. More »

01/07/10

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By Kat Hannaford

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OCZ's External SSD Now Comes In USB 3.0 Variety

OCZ announced their new line of SSDs for the first part of 2010, and it includes an external USB 3.0 SSD that can transfer at speeds up to 357 megabytes per second. More »

01/06/10

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By Adrian Covert

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ioSafe Solo External SSD Is Apocalypse-Safe

Traumas the ioSafe Solo solid-state external drive can survive: Building collapse, 1550-degree fire, 30-foot submersion in salt water, and a 5,000-pound "crush force." So you might say it's durable. More »

01/04/10

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By Dan Nosowitz

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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 »

11/17/09

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By Dan Nosowitz

#intel

Intel Swears That It's Gonna Stop Its Firmware From Bricking Any More SSDs

11/06/09

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#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 »

11/02/09

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By Jack Loftus

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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 »

09/15/09

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By Adrian Covert

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Now Available

OWC closes out this week of gadget shipments with some reasonably priced solid state drives. More »

09/11/09

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By Chris Jacob

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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 »

08/04/09

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By Danny Allen

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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 »

08/03/09

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By Adrian Covert

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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 »

07/31/09

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By Rosa Golijan

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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 »

07/29/09

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By Sean Fallon

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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 »

07/20/09

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By Dan Nosowitz

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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 »

07/16/09

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By Dan Nosowitz

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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 »

07/07/09

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By Mark Wilson

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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 »

07/03/09

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By Brian Lam

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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 »

06/22/09

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By Adrian Covert

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