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• Article | 1/05/2012 HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centers

  Western Digital company HGST on Tuesday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive for use in enter...
• Article | 17/04/2012 Intel ships new SSD 330 series, but limits it to 180GB storage

  Intel's streak of solid-state drive announcements has continued with the company announcing a new line of SSD 330 drives for mainstream computers but ...
• Article | 12/04/2012 Intel drives up SSD storage capacity to 800GB

  Intel on Thursday announced new solid-state drives with storage of up to 800GB, which is a new high in capacity for the company's SSD products.
• Article | 12/04/2012 Samsung eyes next generation of NAND to lower laptop cost

  A new type of NAND flash storage for consumer electronics that can store data more densely might lower the cost of devices such as tablets and thin "u...
• Article | 6/04/2012 Intel ships SSDs that help laptops boot faster

  Intel has started shipping a new series of small-capacity solid-state drives (SSDs) that can be used in laptops to reduce boot times and load applicat...
• Article | 10/01/2012 SSD prices will fall below $1 per GB in 2012, says IDC

  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 b...
• Article | 1/11/2011 Thai floods hit Q4 hard drive production, says research firm

  The devastating floods in Thailand will cause a 28 percent quarter-on-quarter drop in hard disk drive (HDD) production in the fourth quarter, potentia...
• Article | 15/09/2011 Can you put an SSD and HDD in a laptop?

  After reading The Best of Both Worlds: An SSD and a HDD, George McCluney asked if it's possible to combine both drives on a laptop.
• Article | 15/09/2011 Intel announces new 710 series enterprise SSDs

  Intel on Wednesday announced the new 710 series solid-state drives, which the company is pitching as a replacement to hard drives in enterprise server...
• Article | 18/08/2011 Intel posts fix for bug that crashes SSD 320 drives

  Intel on Wednesday issued a firmware upgrade that fixes a bug that caused its SSD 320 solid-state drives to crash and lose data, months after the issu...
• Article | 16/08/2011 Intel to issue bug fix for SSD 320 drives in two weeks

  Intel on Monday said it will issue a firmware upgrade within two weeks to fix a bug that causes its SSD 320 solid-state drives to fail, which should r...
• Article | 13/08/2011 NAND flash can verify a device's identity

  People who make, buy and sell flash storage could detect counterfeit products based on the unique "fingerprints" of the chips, using techniques being ...
• Article | 12/08/2011 Samsung aims to drive up tablet storage with new SSDs

  Tablet users may need more storage capacity in the future, and Samsung Semiconductor on Thursday announced it is now making its fastest solid-state dr...
• Article | 9/08/2011 SSD drives promise to enhance storage performance, but a new host-interface-standard holds the key

  This vendor-written tech primer is submitted on the behalf of the NVMe Promoter Group, which is backed by Cisco, Dell, EMC, IDT, Intel, Micron, NetApp...
• Article | 5/08/2011 Fusion-io to buy IO Turbine to reach virtualized servers

  Flash storage vendor Fusion-io has agreed to buy IO Turbine for up to $US95 million to extend its on-server cache products to virtualized environments...