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Article | 23/02/2011 SSD drives difficult to wipe securely, researchers find
Current methods for securely wiping data from magnetic hard disks simply aren't reliable enough to use on solid state drives (SSDs), a detailed study ...
Article | 16/02/2011 Intel mini-SATA SSD
While I've reviewed many solid-state drives (SSD) in the past, I've never reviewed a mini-SATA (mSATA) SSD. So when Intel sent me one of their first s...
Article | 27/01/2011 Seagate: Solid-state disks are doomed (at least for now)
Hard disk manufacturer Seagate has published an extraordinary report all but proving that solid-state disk (SSD) technology will remain niche for the ...
Article | 9/01/2011 Hard drive withstands drops, submersion, shot gun blasts
ioSafe's Rugged Portable hard drive launched at the Consumer Electronics Show this week withstood drops, submersion and even blasts from a 12-guage sh...
Article | 6/01/2011 New Lexar flash drives pack a lot into a tiny package
Quick: What stores up to 128GB, supports file encryption, and fits in your pocket? Why, Lexar's newest flash drives. Lexar's Echo MX and the ZX backup...
Article | 22/12/2010 Flash storage in post-PC devices advances
Solid-state storage has helped to raise the wave of portable PC alternatives that has hit the market over the past few years, and 2011 is likely to se...
Article | 14/12/2010 Solid state drives no better than others, survey says
Solid state drives (SSD) appear to be as <unreliable as traditional hard disks. In fact, they're marginally less reliable: Taken as an average across...
Article | 9/11/2010 Toshiba SSD opens door to MacBook Air alternatives
The MacBook Air's most slimming component isn't so unique anymore.
Article | 4/11/2010 Super-slim SSD promises super speeds
What's less than half a centimeter thick, has a smaller footprint than a credit card, and stores up to 400GB of data? It's the latest SSD from Foremay...
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 | 17/08/2010 Intel-Hitachi SSDs fall behind schedule
A partnership between Intel and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has missed the ship date for its first enterprise flash storage products, but that...
Article | 2/06/2010 SanDisk, OCZ push size, speed limits with new SSDs
At the Computex 2010 show on Tuesday, SanDisk Corp. and OCZ Technology Inc. both introduced their latest solid-state drives (SSDs), setting new perfor...
Article | 21/04/2010 The skinny on solid state drives
Solid state drives are appearing in all types of gear these days. We tested seven SSD-based products – three PCIe boards, two SAN systems, a server bl...
Article | 20/04/2010 Why aren't SSDs getting cheaper?
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, not...
Article | 23/01/2010 SSD could ultimately replace hard disk drives, Hitachi CTO says
Flash-based memory is still too expensive to be a data center's primary storage technology, but solid-state disks may ultimately replace mechanical ha...