Most of our devices run (not for long enough) on lithium ion batteries. But there could be a new, old kid on the block—in the shape of a solid-state battery that can hold twice the charge as li-on.

A duo of leaked Intel roadmap slides have purportedly revealed the company's plans for its Sandy Bridge CPUs and an expanded SSD lineup for 2011. Let's look!

Last week's annual SIGGRAPH conference was, as usual, a place where dazzling visual displays were commonplace. But solid-state storage firm Fusion-io's demo of an ultra-efficient drive took was perhaps a bit overstimulating, playing 2,000 DVD-quality movies simultaneously. Eyedrops recommended. [Fusion-io via Core77]
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These Force Series SSDs from Corsair have up to 280MB/s reads and 260MB/s writes, which are supposedly "class-leading". Even if it's not the fastest solid state drives on the market period, it's the fastest Corsair's ever made.

PC Perspective's review of Intel's X25-M SSD, a custom-designed solid state drive, showed that the manufacturer's sector remapping actually lowered overall performance dramatically over time as the drive became irreparably fragmented.

Seagate has decided to enter the solid-state disk (SSD) market in 2009, starting the company's switch from hard disk drives (HDD). Their first target: corporate America. Once they've got the cubicle commanders, they'll move to consumers. Seagate senior manager Rich Vignes seems to be awfully defensive about this move,…

Sound the alarm for hard disks—it looks like solid state drive prices have plunged enough to finally jump out of early adopter territory. California-based flash memory maker Super Talent is now offering a 128GB SSD for $300 retail. That's $150 cheaper than a comparable offer from Dell and about $4.95 cheaper per GB…

OCZ's new Core Series SSD's are designed to be large and affordable. So the new 2.5-inch SATA II flash drives are coming in 128GB, 64GB and 32GB sizes at $479, $259 and $169 respectively. They don't match up to the 200Mbps read speeds Samsung has promised-managing 135Mbs- but that price point is pretty low. And while…

Sony has upgraded its HDR-CX7 flash-based camcorder to include face-recognition technology and Smile Shutter, which automatically takes a still picture as soon as the subject switches to full beam. The camera records in full HD at a resolution of 920 by 1080 pixels, and has a 10-megapixel camera for still shots.…

NAB in Las Vegas saw the unveiling of Panasonic's HPX-170 P2 solid-state camera. The 1080p camcorder has the widest zoom lens in its class, a 13x Leica Dicomar with 28mm wide-angle setting, and an SDI interface, all in a 4.2-pound body. Full press release of the HPX-170 P2 after the jump.

The 2.4-pound Toshiba Portege R500 may have cleared the FCC, but its younger, slimmer brother just weighed in at 1.73 pounds. How did Toshiba do it? By swapping out a standard hard drive and putting in a 64GB solid-state flash drive. The R500-S5003 has no moving parts (there's no DVD drive), and will cost $2,699. If…

Instead of going half-in half-out with hybrid drives like Samsung, Dell's going all in and offering solid state drives on two of their laptops. The Latitude D420 (heh-heh) ultra-mobile and D620 semi-rugged notebooks will both be entirely solid state, and are supposedly the first corporate notebooks to offer such a…

Now here's a great idea from Addonics: replace a laptop's 2.5" hard disk with flash memory, using a $30 adapter that lets you boot from CompactFlash cards. Suddenly you've converted that lappy into a solid-state notebook without spending an arm and a leg. That's what Addonics has done with its CompactFlash Hard Drive…

Adtron's latest solid state disk, the 160GB A25FB and I25FB, are IDE and SATA disks that are entirely made up of flash memory.

A-Data was showing off this 128GB 2.5-inch solid-state drive in the back rooms of CES, and finally a picture of the largest-capacity SSD in the world has surfaced. Not much is known about it except that it's a SATA II drive and might be shipping about six months from now.

Back in October we showed you the first laptop to pack a solid state hard drive, but what we couldn't see was just how fast these new flash-based lappies ran. Thanks to Fujitsu we can now show you the speed difference between a flash-based notebook and a typical HDD-based system. Maybe I'm just pessimistic, but I…

We've been patiently waiting for laptops to come out with solid state, flash-based hard drives for ages and it looks like Samsung will be the first company to offer such an item. The first laptop to feature a flash-based hard drive, the Q30SSD sports 32GB of storage capacity and is available right now in South…

After the Vista hybrid hard drive news this week, some fat cat Wall Street analysts have been wondering whether Apple will go ahead and place some NAND Solid State Disks (SSD) into their laptops as well. After all, Apple's got the sweet deal with Samsung and their NAND facilities, which resulted lowering the prices of…

Creative Labs announced the DiVi CAM 525D, a versatile solid-state pocket-sized camcorder that shoots MPEG4 video at 640x480/30fps and also brings a 5-megapixel still camera along for the ride. Since it's challenging to hold a palm-sized camcorder still, the 525D has a motion stabilizer to keep things steady, but…

Take a look at the Samsung Q1-SSD, this one with a 32GB solid-state flash drive. We must tell you up front that it costs $2430, far above the $500 Origami fantasy price point originally touted months ago.