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- Solid State Disk
- A disk drive that uses memory chips instead of rotating platters for data storage. Used in battery-powered handheld devices as well as laptop computers, solid state disks SSDs are...
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- PureSilicon's new Renegade R2 SSD lineup handles extreme heat, cold, shock
- PureSilicon announced this week the addition of a 256GB capacity model to its new, rugged Renegade R2 solid state drive family. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: Solid State Disk, PureSilicon, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Corsair launches 64GB, 128GB 'performance' SSDs; 220MB/sec read, write
- Corsair on Thursday announced 64GB and 128GB editions of its Performance Series solid state drive family, touting high read and write speeds for less capacity and cost. The Corsair P128 delivers the same 220MB/sec read speeds and 200MB/sec write speeds as its higher...
- Tags: Performance, Solid State Disk, Speed, Corsair P128, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- SATA Revision 3.0 paves way for 6Gb/s devices
- SATA Revision 3.0 paves way for 6Gb/s devicesSATA Connectors *are* crap - agreed.Unbelievable that the old molex 4-pin power connector was better than the new one. I never had a molex pop out, but I've have several SATA power connectors disconnect, especially in fold-together desktops like Dells and small form...
- Tags: PCI, SATA Connector, Serial ATA, PCI Express, solid state disk, SATA Revision 3.0
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- Toshiba ups solid state drive laptop ante for a price
- Toshiba ups solid state drive laptop ante for a priceToshiba ups solid state drive laptop ante for a priceWho can afford $3,500 for a computer? I mean, I just need it for mail and such, I'm not inventing the wheel or anything like that.I'm sure there are commercial needs for...
- Tags: Notebooks, solid state drive laptop, solid state disk, laptop computer, Toshiba Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Toshiba ups solid state drive laptop ante for a price
- Toshiba U.S. unit said that it has loaded a Portege laptop with a second-generation 512GB solid state drive SSD in what it claims is a first in the notebook market. However, it'll cost you. The Portege R600-ST4203 carries the 512GB solid state drive. In the last two...
- Tags: Toshiba Portege, Solid State Disk, Toshiba Corp., Laptop Computer, Portege R600-ST4203, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Samsung adds full disk encryption to solid state drives
- Samsung adds full disk encryption to solid state drivesOnly as good as the trapdoor keys they give to the FedsHow bulletproof is the encryption? Does the manufacturer keep a master key or give it to whatever gov't that asks for it (China, US, whoever).
- Tags: disk encryption, solid state disk, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., disk
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Samsung adds full disk encryption to solid state drives
- Wave Systems and Samsung announced today new self-encrypting solid state drives that automatically encrypt information as it is saved to the drive, "an industry first" for SSDs, the companies say. While full disk encryption is a standard feature on typical HDDs, SSDs are...
- Tags: Disk, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Wave Systems Corp., Solid State Disk, Hardware, Encryption, Disk Encryption, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Saving energy in a flash. Solid state drives will be hot for keeping data centers cooler.
- Saving energy in a flash. Solid state drives will be hot for keeping data centers cooler.The sky is fallingNothing like leftist extreme liberals taking overthe country and creating crisis out of 'energy'it will result in a change in congress andin 2012 a new President not a 'resident' with no proof...
- Tags: Data centers, pro abortion, Saving Energy, un-American, government control, solid state disk, data center
- Discussion threads 2009-04-11
- Saving energy in a flash. Solid state drives will be hot for keeping data centers cooler.
- Last year, EMC was the first major systems vendor to get solid state drives SSDs into both its enterprise and its midrange-class storage products. Quite a step up from the consumer applications, such as cameras, for which SSDs traditionally have been used. (I'm sure Sun will say they introduce the...
- Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Solid State Disk, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-11
- Are solid state drives doomed?
- Are solid state drives doomed?Solid State Drivesare probably not doomed. Just nice scary press tactics. I'll wait for the 2nd or 3rd generation of these to come out before I commit to purchasing one. RE: Are solid state drives doomed?Magnetic drives slow down too. I have seen many 3...
- Tags: Mechanical Drives, solid state disk, SSD, USB flash drive
- Discussion threads 2009-03-27
- Are solid state drives doomed?
- AnandTech has posted some interesting analysis of solid state drives, or SSDs, in which it provides figures showing that used SSDs perform worse than they do when they're new. Using the Intel X-25M, among other drives, as examples, the author writes: The “used†performance should be...
- Tags: Performance, Solid State Disk, SSD, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Solid State Disks for HP StorageWorks Arrays Whitepaper
- Magnetic disk drives have been in use for decades. Their behavior is well understood, predictable, and assumptions about disk performance are deeply ingrained in the industry and frequently in the applications that use disk storage. This paper will review types of solid state storage products, introduce the flash memory technology...
- Tags: Disk, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Solid State Disk, Flash Memory, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Toshiba launches first 512GB solid state drive
- Toshiba launches first 512GB solid state driveNeat, but I think this is going to be WAY to expensive for wide adoptionntIf and when they get over the R/W fragmentation slowdown ....I agree that for certain nich applications these are great, but like LCD HDTVs they are several years away from...
- Tags: solid state disk, Toshiba Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-18
- Toshiba launches first 512GB solid state drive
- Toshiba announced today the industry's first 2.5-inch 512 GB SSD, based on 43-nanometer Multi-Level Cell NAND, according to a press release. The drive is part of a new family of 43nm NAND SSDs, which also includes capacities of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, offered in 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch...
- Tags: Notebook Market, Solid State Disk, Toshiba Corp., Home Entertainment, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Toshiba to unveil 512 GB solid state drive at CES
- Toshiba said Thursday that it will show off a new lineup of solid state drives at the Consumer Electronics Show including a 512 GB solid state drive. Toshiba notes (statement, Techmeme) that the 2.50-inch 512 GB drive is an industry first and is based on 43 nanometer...
- Tags: Solid State Disk, Toshiba Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Global solid state drive market to grow at a 70% CAGR
- Global solid state drive market to grow at a 70% CAGRZDNET repeated statistics reach 50% CAGRNT
- Tags: Investment, compound annual growth rate, solid state disk
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Global solid state drive market to grow at a 70% CAGR
- The worldwide solid state drive SSD market is for real and generated nearly $400 mln in revenues in 2007. SSD revenue will increase at a 70% compound annual growth rate CAGR from 2007-2012 and unit shipments at a slightly faster rate of 76%, IDC predicts, according to IDC. by NB
- Tags: revenue, solid state disk, compound annual growth rate, nb
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Global solid state drive market to grow at a 70% CAGR
- The worldwide solid state drive SSD market is for real and generated nearly $400 mln in revenues in 2007. SSD revenue will increase at a 70% compound annual growth rate CAGR from 2007-2012 and unit shipments at a slightly faster rate of 76%, IDC predicts, according to IDC. by NB
- Tags: revenue, solid state disk, compound annual growth rate, nb
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Geek Sheet: A Tweakerââ¬â¢s Guide to Solid State Disks (SSDs) and Linux
- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker’s Guide to Solid State Disks SSDs and LinuxOh, It's just Loverock at it again? Pay no attention Jason.ntGeek Sheet: A Tweaker’s Guide to Solid State Disks SSDs and LinuxHow sad is that? You need a tweaking guide just to get a disk drive to...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, solid state disk, disk, Linux, Geek Sheet
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Geek Sheet: A Tweakerââ¬â¢s Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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