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myIDkey biometric password manager seeks Kickstarter funding
- A company called Arkami, Inc. has taken to Kickstarter with hopes of funding their secure Bluetooth / USB storage drive designed to help users keep track of the growing number of accounts and passwords associated with personal information online.
Tuesday tech deals: 480GB OCZ Solid 3 $280, 1 year XBL Gold $35
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TigerDirect offers the OCZ 480GB Solid 3 Series SSD, model no. SLD3-25SAT3-480G, for $329.99. This $50 mail-in rebate cuts it to $279.99. With free shipping, that's $0.58/GB and the lowest total price we could find $50, although we saw it for $10 less in December (since expired)...
Lacie's XtremKey USB 3.0 touts 230MB/s transfers, rugged design
- Lacie has expanded its rugged storage line with a new portable flash drive that offers more strength and speed than the company's previous offerings. Constructed out of Zamak (zinc alloyed with aluminum, magnesium and copper), the XtremKey USB 3.0 can…
Tuesday tech deals: 256GB Agility 4 $130, iPhone 5 $150 w/ contract
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Today only, TigerDirect offers the OCZ 256GB Agility 4 SSD, model no. AGT4-25SAT3-256G, for $159.99. This $30 mail-in rebate drops it to $129.99. With free shipping, that's $0.51/GB, and the lowest total price we could find by $60, although we saw it for $30 less on Black Friday...
Engineers use heat to create 100-million-cycle flash memory
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Engineers at Macronix, one of the world's largest flash memory makers, have reportedly developed a new technology that can extend the life of NAND cells by more than a thousand times by simply applying heat. Most of today's flash modules fail after cells have been programmed...
Samsung 840 SSD 250GB cut to $170 with Far Cry 3 for the holidays
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Following up on its Assassin's Creed III 840 Pro promotion (which is still active on Newegg), Samsung has announced that folks who buy one of its new 250GB 840 SSDs will get a free copy of Far Cry 3, which is slated to ship in North America on December 4 (watch for our review...
Tuesday tech deals: 256GB Agility 4 $130, MS Store ultrabook sale
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TigerDirect offers the OCZ 256GB Agility 4 for $159.99. This $30 mail-in rebate drops it to $129.99. With free shipping, that's $0.51/GB, tied with an August deal, and the best price we've seen for this drive. It's a current price low by $54. This drive features read speeds of up to 420MB/s...
SSD shipments soaring despite weak ultrabook performance
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With prices falling well below $1 per gigabyte, many enthusiasts can finally justify the luxury of running their operating system and applications off flash storage. SSD shipments have climbed sharply this year, with each quarter topping the previous period by millions of units...
WOF: Do you carry a USB drive every day? If so, what's on it?
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With flash storage being more affordable, compact and rugged than ever, it seems common for people to routinely carry a USB drive -- or six, in the case of our news editor Rick, who runs a PC repair business. Naturally, most of his drives contain bootable utilities, operating system installers...
Vertex 4 firmware update inbound, doubles writes on 128GB model
- OCZ has announced a new firmware update that boosts performance of fourth-generation Vertex drives by up to 110% in certain situations. The update (v1.4RC) increases 128KB sequential reads from 535MB/s to 550MB/s on 128GB, 256GB and 512GB Vertex 4s, while…
Tuesday tech deals: 128GB Crucial m4 $110, Ivy Bridge is available
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Buy.com offers the Crucial 128GB M4 2.5" Internal SSD, model no. CT128M4SSD2, for $109.99 with free shipping ($0.86/GB). That's $10 under a deal from a week ago and the least expensive 128GB 6Gb/s SSD we've ever seen without rebate hassles. It's also a current price low by $15...
Corsair unveils Accelerator hybrid cache SSDs, starting at $69
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Still can't justify an SSD? Corsair hopes to coax the cash out of your coin purse with its new Accelerator line, which aims to shatter your HDD speeds but not your bank account. The Accelerator series combines low-capacity flash drives with NVELO's Dataplex caching software...
Victorinox unveils Swiss Army knife with an LCD and 1TB of storage
- Victorinox has a knack for making Swiss Army knives even cooler by adding features for the modern-day utilitarian, such as flash storage. Looking back nearly two years, the company outfitted one of its multi-purpose knives with an "unhackable" drive that…
OCZ reveals Indilinx Everest 2 SSD controller, due this June
- Putting its Indilinx purchase to good use, OCZ has unveiled its second-generation Everest solid-state drive controller. Announced last July, the original Everest only hit the market about two months ago inside the affordable Octane SSDs. The current iteration includes dual…
Kingston announces entry-level SSDNow V200 series
- Kingston has introduced the second-generation of its popular entry-level SSDNow V series, giving budget shoppers even more bang for their buck. The original SSDNow V100 launched precisely one year ago and has been the go-to boot drive for many cash-strapped…
Intel's SSD roadmap leaked, shows new drives for 2011/2012
- VR-Zone has published a roadmap that reveals Intel's next wave of SSDs. Although the company hasn't taken the market by storm as it did with the X25 in 2008 and 2009, 2011 has been a seemingly fruitful year for Intel.…
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