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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...
Article | 26/10/2009 SNW highlights SSDs, more
At Storage Networking World a couple of weeks ago, the focus was on solid-state drives and cloud technologies.
Article | 29/08/2009 Solid-state drives go mainstream
Just about everyone has heard the hype surrounding solid-state drives, but only now are we starting to see SSDs get a foothold as a storage alternativ...
Article | 19/06/2009 Review: Hard disk vs. solid-state drive -- is an SSD worth the money?
Solid-state disk (SSD) drives are all the rage among techies. The drives use non-volatile NAND flash memory, meaning there are no moving parts. Becaus...