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Hitachi releases first 25nm SLC SSDs for storage arrays

Posted February 9, 2012 - 3:07 pm

Hitachi GST announced the Ultrastar SSD400S.B, which uses high-endurance SLC NAND flash memory to create an enterprise-class drive that also comes with native encryption.
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Second life: Revive your old workstation with SSDs

Posted February 8, 2012 - 2:33 pm

With lower costs and higher capabilities, workstation-grade SSDs can significantly extend the useful life of old hardware
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IBM boosts flagship array speeds by 3X with SSD caching

Posted February 7, 2012 - 9:06 pm

Enhancements to IBM's XIV Storage System include an SSD caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times.
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Maingear's six-core laptop has 1.8TB of SSD storage

Posted February 7, 2012 - 2:52 pm

PC maker Maingear is chasing the laptop performance crown with its latest Titan 17 laptop, which can be configured to include Intel's fastest desktop processor and up to 1.8TB of solid-state drive storage.
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Review: Intel's new 'Cherryville' SSD 520 drive

Posted February 6, 2012 - 2:22 pm

Intel today started shipping its fastest solid-state drive to date, the 520 Series SSD, sporting its smallest 25nm NAND flash memory and SandForce's SATA 3.0 controller with 500MB/sec-plus performance.
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2012: The year storage becomes a celebrity

Posted January 30, 2012 - 4:49 pm

While data storage has always been a necessary building block for technology, it's rarely garnered as much attention as it has in the past two years. The reason: Corporate and retail consumers are being forced to store greater amounts of data and they need to make that data more useful -- and accessible.
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Review: Encrypted solid state drives protect laptop data

Posted January 23, 2012 - 10:18 am

Vendors are touting solid state replacement drives as a way to protect corporate data in the event of a laptop being lost or stolen, and to boost performance at the same time.
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SSD prices will fall below $1 per GB in 2012, says IDC

Posted January 9, 2012 - 11:54 am

The price for SSDs (solid state drives) that are going into PCs are expected to fall below US$1 per gigabyte during the second half of 2012, further boosting adoption, market research company IDC said on Monday.
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Tech that should be on your company's radar for 2012

Posted December 28, 2011 - 6:07 am

There are a variety of new technologies advancing in 2012 that you should investigate, if you aren't already doing so, to give your small business a leg up on the competition. These recent technologies are beginning to be widely adopted and will continue to drive business forward.
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Apple reportedly buys Israeli SSD-maker Anobit

Posted December 20, 2011 - 1:21 pm

Apple has apparently agreed to purchase Anobit Technologies, an Israeli start-up that makes enterprise-class SSDs based on consumer-grade NAND flash chips.
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Hard drive prices slide as Thai flood aftermath subsides

Posted December 20, 2011 - 11:46 am

Hard drive shortages peaked in October, pushing up prices by as much as 150%, but supplies and prices appear to be leveling off and may give online consumers much-needed relief in the weeks ahead.
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SSD shipments leap 66% in Q3, revenue doubles

Posted December 13, 2011 - 3:42 pm

SSD shipments rose 66% between Q3 2010 and this year, and revenue from PC SSD sales and enterprise systems more than doubled.
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Thailand floods spur rush to SSDs

Posted December 1, 2011 - 5:42 pm

According to DRAMeXchange, the flooding in Thailand that has left the storage industry with a dearth of hard drives has also caused a temporary rush on solid-state drives
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STEC announces high-endurance SSD

Posted November 30, 2011 - 2:04 pm

Storage vendor STEC announced a high-performance drive that has three times the endurance capability of previous generation MLC-based solid state drives.
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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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LSI: SandForce buyout won't affect other system makers' SSDs

Posted October 31, 2011 - 1:10 pm

LSI said its planned purchase of flash chip maker SandForce will not affect other equipment makers that use the company's products.
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Intel releases SSD Toolbox 3.0 to optimize drive performance

Posted October 27, 2011 - 4:56 pm

Intel on Thursday released the third generation of its solid-state drive monitoring and management firmware SSD Toolbox 3.0, which offers many of the same tools as previous versions but with a simpler interface.
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EMC unveils all-SSD VNX, high bandwidth arrays

Posted October 20, 2011 - 3:17 pm

EMC today announced the availability of an all-solid state drive midrange VNX array with 10X the performance of previous models, as well as a high bandwidth option for its hard drive VNX models, offering 50% more bandwidth.
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OCZ's Synapse SSD to boost hard drive performance by auto-caching

Posted September 27, 2011 - 10:53 am

OCZ's latest SSD, the Synapse, works in conjunction with a computer's regular hard drive to boost performance.
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Micron unveils its first entry-level SSD for blade servers

Posted September 15, 2011 - 10:48 am

Micron today released its first entry-level solid state drive to be used as a boot drive in servers or for I/O intensive read applications, such as video streaming in cloud computing environments.
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Can you put an SSD and HDD in a laptop?

Posted September 14, 2011 - 10:16 am

Whether or not you can upgrade a laptop this way depends on the compromises you're willing to make. Here are some possible approaches
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Anobit doubles performance, capacity of SSD using consumer flash

Posted September 14, 2011 - 5:05 am

Israeli start-up Anobit on Wednesday is announcing its second generation of SSDs based on consumer NAND flash technology. The company has doubled capacity to 800GB, halved the size of its circuitry and added a SAS connector.
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IT moving to SSD for robust apps

Posted September 12, 2011 - 11:16 am

Despite its high price tag, solid state storage technology is increasingly becoming a viable option for large and mid-size companies looking to ease bottlenecks caused by high-transaction databases, virtualization systems and other robust applications.
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Tablets, SSD, cloud show little impact on sales of old hardware they're thought to replace

Posted September 8, 2011 - 2:21 pm

Despite rapid increases in sales of newer, more trendy technology like tablets and cloud-computing services, sales of storage and PCs seem relatively unaffected.
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Corsair reveals new 90GB SATA-3 SSDs

Posted August 18, 2011 - 5:55 pm

On Thursday Corsair revealed two new 90GB solid-state drives (SSDs). Both drives have a SATA-3 6Gbps interface.
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