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Skip data tiering, go directly to all-SSD storage, Forrester says

Posted November 22, 2011 - 1:29 pm

Companies may want to skip using a tiered storage architecture and move directly to an all-solid-state-drive (SSD) architecture, according to a new report from Forrester Research.
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Intel 320 series SSDs better, but still too expensive

Posted March 29, 2011 - 7:24 pm

Intel announced the third generation of its line of solid-state drives. The new drives are bigger, and less expensive than their predecessors, but are still exorbitant compared with similar capacity traditional hard drives, making the SSD still somewhat of a niche luxury.
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Micron releases half-terabyte laptop SSDs

Posted January 4, 2011 - 3:13 pm

Micron Technology today announced a new line of solid-state drives (SSDs) with up to 512GB of capacity.
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Intel releases miniature 80GB SSD

Posted January 3, 2011 - 1:59 pm

Intel recently announced a mini solid-state drive that is one-eighth the size of its current 2.5-in SSD, but that can hold as much as 80GB of data and achieve up to 200MB/sec. throughput.
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Toshiba announces its first enterprise-class SSD line

Posted December 14, 2010 - 4:06 pm

Toshiba announced its first 2.5-inch SAS SSDs for the enterprise, which sport fast sustained read rates of up to 510MB/sec.
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Corsair Introduces Two New Solid State Drives

Posted May 5, 2010 - 3:02 pm

Computer hardware and peripheral maker Corsair, known for their memory products, announced this Monday that two newcomers will be joining the company's Nova Series of solid-state drives (SSD) .
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Making the best use of SSDs

Posted April 20, 2010 - 10:32 am

Many of the standard ways that hard drives are used may not be appropriate for SSDs. Putting SSDs in a RAID 5 array, for instance, may make the RAID controller the bottleneck in the storage system, in addition to ensuring that all the drives in the array could fail at that same time, since writes are distributed evenly over all drives, and wear-leveling algorithms on the drives cause all cells to wear evenly as well, meaning that if the drives reach their limits on writes at the same time, all the drives in an array could fail at about the same time.
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Why aren't SSDs getting cheaper?

Posted April 20, 2010 - 8:31 am

Solid-state drives (SSD) have been among the hottest hardware products for more than two years, with a good deal of uptake within the consumer PC, notebook and netbook markets in response to a precipitous drop in pricing in 2007 and 2008.
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How to Upgrade Your Laptop's Hard Drive to an SSD

Posted April 20, 2010 - 7:17 am

Upgrading to a solid-state drive isn't as easy as buying a drive and throwing it in your PC. Here are a few tips for picking out the right model, making sure that it will work with your setup, carefully cloning your old drive, and keeping the install process clean and painless.
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Hitachi GST, Intel team up for solid-state drives

Posted December 2, 2008 - 11:29 am

Hitachi GST and Intel plan to jointly develop high-end SSDs for servers and workstations.
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The mysterious "Mac": A computer from the people who brought you the iPhone

Posted September 11, 2008 - 1:47 pm

Remember back when Apple rumors were Mac rumors? Good times!
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IT managers choose SSDs over hard disks

Posted August 15, 2008 - 8:35 am

IT managers around the U.S. are falling in love with SSDs (solid state drives) in enterprise servers because they solve two major headaches: they run so fast they can replace multiple HDDs (hard disk drives) and they help reduce the electric bill.
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Intel launches smaller SSD for netbooks, mini-desktops

Posted August 14, 2008 - 9:31 am

Intel launched a much smaller version of its Z-P230 SSDs (solid state drive) aimed at netbooks and mini-desktops, the company said Wednesday.
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Imation nudges market with new SSDs

Posted August 12, 2008 - 2:53 pm

Solid state drives (SSDs) are not getting much faster or cheaper, but they are at least becoming more numerous with the announcement by Imation of two new models, the Pro 7500 and Pro 7000.
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HP considering touchscreens for next Mini-Note

Posted August 7, 2008 - 12:34 pm

Hewlett-Packard is considering a range of new technologies for the next version of its popular 2133 Mini-Note netbook, including touchscreens.
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Samsung, Microsoft in talks to speed up SSDs on Vista

Posted August 7, 2008 - 10:31 am

Samsung isn't just pushing the envelope in storage capacity of SSDs (solid-state drives), it is also working with software makers to boost SSD performance on operating systems.
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Sun calls for SSD companies to unite on standards

Posted August 5, 2008 - 8:54 am

Players in the solid-state drive industry need to unite and establish an umbrella organization that establishes standards that define the technology, like its performance, a Sun Microsystems executive said on Monday.
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Samsung puts 128G-byte SSDs into mass production

Posted July 9, 2008 - 9:44 am

Samsung Electronics is mass producing solid-state drives with a 128G-byte capacity, and will begin production of a 256G-byte product later this year, the company said Wednesday.
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