solid-state drives

News about solid-state drives

Article | 18/08/2010 SSDs may give you more bang for your DRAM
Device and storage vendors are gradually embracing flash SSDs (solid-state disks) as a complement to spinning disk drives, but one executive at this w...
Article | 12/08/2010 Micron ships its first enterprise-class SSD
Micron Technology Inc. today said it is shipping what it calls the fastest enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD) on the market.
Article | 18/06/2010 OCZ releases updated 1.8-in SSD line for netbooks, tablets
OCZ Technology Group, Inc. today released a series of 1.8-in. solid state drives (SSD) to offer a storage upgrade for products such as netbooks, ultra...
Article | 15/06/2010 Israeli start-up claims huge boost to SSD reliability
Israeli start-up Anobit Technologies Ltd. emerged from quiet mode today and announced its first product, a multilevel cell (MLC) solid-state drive tha...
Article | 11/06/2010 OCZ releases two new enterprise-class Vertex SSDs
OCZ Technology Group, Inc. released two new versions of its data center-class 2.5-in. solid state drive (SSD) series today.

Tutorials about solid-state drives

Article | 2/12/2009 Switching to a solid-state drive
Prices on solid-state drives are dropping, and operating systems (particularly Windows 7) are beginning to take advantage of the potential higher spee...

Features about solid-state drives

Article | 20/02/2010 Free utility works to overcome SSD slowness
To understand why I love the tiny, free FlashFire utility/driver, you'll need a little background. I bought an original Acer Aspire One netbook with a...
Article | 9/12/2009 Seagate's pulsar drives bring SSD to enterprise primetime
Seagate jumped into the SSD (solid state drive) market today with the unveiling of its Pulsar drives. SSD drives have been a growing segment, but Seag...
Article | 5/12/2009 Despite the cost, SSDs are great value
Solid-state drives recently hit the 1-terabyte mark with the release of the US$3,300 OCZ Colossus 1TB SSD. Obviously, drives at this price point are n...
Article | 2/11/2009 Four considerations for SSD deployment
While solid state drives offer increased performance, the key to figuring out the role they can play in the data center is balancing that performance ...
Article | 30/10/2009 Automated tiering key to getting value from SSDs
Though flash storage could be the most powerful tool yet for IT administrators who want to speed up access to frequently used data, reaping its benefi...