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Intel SSDs Will, In Fact, Get Smaller and Faster This Year

The roadmap for this year’s Intel SSDs has been exposed, and some will use a manufacturing technology as small as 25nm MLC and 34nm SLC, meaning more efficient drives in bigger capacities or smaller form factors for you. [Engadget]

Tech News Adrian Covert Apr 29

Crucial’s New SSDs for Laptops

I let most component news hit the floor but I can’t seem to get enough of SSD news because of how much I want my laptop to stop ticking and clicking and whirring. Crucial’s new M4 line of 2.5-inch SSDs just came out. Cult of Mac says: Crucial has just launched its new M4 lineup…

Tech News Brian Lam Apr 28

OS X Lion Will Take Better Care of SSDs with TRIM Support

OS X Lion Will Use TRIM commands when dealing with SSDs, which will extend the life of the storage devices found in all MacBook Airs. [HardMac via Cult of Mac]

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 25

OS X Snow Leopard’s Secure Delete Doesn’t Work With SSDs

OS X‘s secure delete, which overwrites data multiple times so snoops can’t recover them even if they have access to your hard drive, turns out to not work with SSDs. The problem? SSD write algorithms are different, because the physical media is different, but also to preserve its lifespan. The end result though is 2/3…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 21

Intel’s 310 Series SSDs Are an Eighth the Size of Their Predecessors

SSDs are great, and they’re getting smaller all the time. A lot smaller. Intel’s teeny new 310 Series SSDs deliver the same performance as the x25s that came before them, but they’re just an eighth the size. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-ssds-and-why-you-wish-you-had-one-5453498 The new drives, intended for notebooks, tablets, and rugged industrial and military devices, are 51mm-by-30mm and a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Dec 29

Apple Shuts Down PhotoFast’s MacBook Air 256GB SSD Upgrade Kit Production

As if the new MacBook Air wasn’t sweet enough, you could also—until now—trick it out with a speedy SSD upgrade from PhotoFast. But Apple’s put an end to that. https://gizmodo.com/13-inch-macbook-air-review-so-long-fatty-5676186 What made the PhotoFast SSD so great in the first place? Read/write times of 250MB/s, compared to the MacBook Air’s 160MB/s max transfer rate. As…

Tech News Brian Barrett Nov 30

MacBook Air’s SSDs Will Be Sold to Other Companies by Toshiba

The very same Toshiba SSDs that Apple uses in its MacBook Airs are now being offered to other companies who may or may not be green-eyed with envy at the slinkiness of the Airs. Available in 64GB and 128GB capacities (both measuring 2.2mm in height) and a 3.7mm tall 256GB option, the Blade X-gale SSDs…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 8

Intel’s Leaked 25nm SSD: 600GB Storage With Four Times the Lifespan

We’d gotten a glimpse at some juicy info about Intel’s next-generation SSDs in August—and were already pretty excited about it—but now AnandTech’s full spec rundown has us downright giddy. Expected sometime either late this year or early next, Intel’s third generation, 25nm process SSD should provide twice the capacity of the current model at the…

Tech News Brian Barrett Oct 6

Repost: Giz Explains SSD

Seagate and Samsung, giants of hard drives and flash memory, respectively, will work together to develop technologies for SSD storage devices. Now would be a fine time to brush up on (and covet) the great solid-state drive. [Giz] https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-ssds-and-why-you-wish-you-had-one-5453498

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert Aug 12

Vibration Is Killing Hard Drive Speeds

I can’t be the only one who’s wondered—even stabilized by several screws in metal mounts—how can hard drives sift through so much minuscule data amidst minuscule vibrations? A new study suggests what we’ve long suspected: They can’t. …well, not all the time, at least. In a study conducted Julian Turner, traditional hard drive racks were…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 10

The Future of Storage

If you take the guts of a Blu-ray or DVD player, blow it up, and spread it across a work bench, it looks like this. So you might be surprised to know that you’re looking at the future of storage. A laser beam whose wavelength is being monitored by this Soviet-looking machine is being bounced…

Tech News John Herrman Mar 19

The Right Hard Drive For You

So, all this storage talk has gotten you excited about upgrading your laptop’s crappy old 120GB drive? It’s about time, dammit. Traditional hard drive have never been cheaper, and the advent of flash-memory based SSDs—that’s solid-state drives—delivers a storage upgrade path that actually deliver solid, real-world benefits that you’ll notice every single day. SSD-equipped PCs…

Reviews Will Smith Mar 18

Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives

With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here’s how to wipe them clean. Why Erasing Files Is Not Enough Sure, you could erase the contents of the drive,…

Tech News MaximumPC Mar 16

It Only Gives You 32GB, But the OCZ Onyx Is Still An SSD Under $100

32GB, 64MB cache, and read and write speeds of 25MB/s and 70MB/s aren’t terribly exciting when it comes to a solid state drive, but the OCZ Onyx still caught our eye because it’s among the first SSDs to slip below $100. [Hot Hardware via CrunchGear]

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 10

Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives

With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here’s how to wipe them clean. Why Erasing Files Is Not Enough Sure, you could erase the contents of the drive,…

Tech News MaximumPC Mar 10

SuperCrypt USB 3.0 Flash Drive Soothes Even the Most Paranoid Early Adopters

I’m imagining a Venn diagram of 1.) People who’ve already built a PC compatible with USB 3.0 and 2.) people who are gravely concerned about data security. The middle section is quite large! Hence, the Super Talent SuperCrypts. These jumbo-sized flash drives, which are backwards compatible with USB 2.0, have been built around AES hardware…

Privacy & Security John Herrman Mar 3

SiliconEdge Blue Reviewed: WD’s First Consumer SSD Not Worth the Money

An SSD is something that you wish you had: they’re fast, efficient, and quiet. Now Western Digital has introduced SiliconEdge Blue, the first line of consumer SSDs from one of the biggest names in storage. Too bad they’re overpriced. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-ssds-and-why-you-wish-you-had-one-5453498 There’s no questioning that SiliconEdge Blue is more than capable, with 240 – 250MB/sec read…

Reviews Brian Barrett Mar 3

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Coming Right Up Edition

In today’s Remainders: the upcoming. The Spring Design E-Reader, soon to be available for presale; 4chan’s mainstream embrace, as signaled by their Jeopardy mention; an idiotic Mall Cop’s impending termination; a backlash to RFID gravestones, and more. Oh Alex? We thought the Spring Design Alex ebook reader was a viable threat to the Nook when…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 24

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. Here’s how it works: With no additional software, a 32GB SSD (recommended size, that you…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 4

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: Using the smaller 25nm manufacturing process, they can get roughly twice as much storage in the same amount of space…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 1

Intel SSDs Will, In Fact, Get Smaller and Faster This Year

Crucial’s New SSDs for Laptops

OS X Lion Will Take Better Care of SSDs with TRIM Support

OS X Snow Leopard’s Secure Delete Doesn’t Work With SSDs

Intel’s 310 Series SSDs Are an Eighth the Size of Their Predecessors

Apple Shuts Down PhotoFast’s MacBook Air 256GB SSD Upgrade Kit Production

MacBook Air’s SSDs Will Be Sold to Other Companies by Toshiba

Intel’s Leaked 25nm SSD: 600GB Storage With Four Times the Lifespan

Repost: Giz Explains SSD

Vibration Is Killing Hard Drive Speeds

The Future of Storage

The Right Hard Drive For You

Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives

It Only Gives You 32GB, But the OCZ Onyx Is Still An SSD Under $100

Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives

SuperCrypt USB 3.0 Flash Drive Soothes Even the Most Paranoid Early Adopters

SiliconEdge Blue Reviewed: WD’s First Consumer SSD Not Worth the Money

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Coming Right Up Edition

HDDBOOST Fuses SSDs with HDDs for Speed Made Cheap

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

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