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Article | 22/05/2009 IBM SSDs spread across product lines
IBM on Thursday continued its push into SSDs (solid-state drives), announcing flash drives for server and storage platforms as well as new software fo...
Article | 16/05/2009 Apacer launches new 'tough' hard drives
Apacer today launched its new Serial ATA Flash Drive (SAFD) 254 for industrial and embedded applications. According to a press release, the new produc...
Article | 6/05/2009 Microsoft: Windows 7 is faster on SSDs, with two caveats
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday gave a strong, though qualified, endorsement for running Windows 7 on PCs equipped with solid-state disk (SSD) drives, sayi...
Article | 15/04/2009 Intel offers firmware upgrade for SSD performance problem
Intel Corp. has released a firmware upgrade for its consumer solid-state disk drive, the X25-M, which suffers from fragmentation issues resulting in p...
Article | 27/03/2009 Solid-state flash products hit market en masse
Solid-state drives based on flash memory are turning up in products from seemingly every hardware vendor these days, signaling that the technology may...
Article | 26/03/2009 Dell adds SSDs in updated EqualLogic line
Dell is set to update on Wednesday the virtualized storage line it acquired in its purchase of EqualLogic last year, now aiming at the needs of larger...
Article | 20/02/2009 Seagate drops SSD patent lawsuit against STEC
Seagate Technology Thursday said it has dropped its lawsuit and all claims alleging STEC misappropriated its hard disk drive (HDD) technology as it re...
Article | 9/01/2009 SanDisk unveils new SSDs for laptops and netbooks
SanDisk unveiled its next-generation solid-state drives (SSDs) at the International CES. One series is aimed at the hot netbook market and the other a...
Article | 7/01/2009 Samsung packs camcorder with SSD for fast start
Solid-state disks, hard-disk drive replacements filled with flash memory chips, have become popular in the laptop computing space and now they're expa...
Article | 7/01/2009 Samsung rolls out 2.5-inch, 100GB solid-state drive
Samsung Electronics announced Tuesday that it has developed a 2.5-in., 100GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive with enhanced performance for use in servers...
Article | 23/12/2008 Intel ships 160GB solid state disk drives
Intel has announced it is expanding its X25-M 2.5-inch and X18-M 1.8-inch SATA solid-state drive (SSD) family with a 160GB drive in a 2.5-inch form fa...
Article | 16/12/2008 Hitachi to ship SSDs with high-end arrays
HDS Monday announced it will offer flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) for its high-end Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and VM storage arrays.
Article | 9/12/2008 Samsung upgrades could lower SSD prices, executives say
Samsung Electronics is upgrading its memory technology and manufacturing processes, which could lead to price drops for solid-state drives (SSDs) that...
Article | 3/12/2008 Hitachi GST, Intel team up for solid-state drives
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Intel are teaming up to produce solid-state drives for servers and workstations, the companies said Tuesday.
Article | 27/11/2008 Micron to launch hyper-fast SSD, touts 1GB/sec throughput
Within the next year, Micron technology expects to bring to market a high-end solid-state disk (SSD) drive that could achieve 1GB/sec throughput, acco...