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WD talks SSHDs: Black hybrid details revealed

WD talks SSHDs: Black hybrid details revealed
  • Posted May 9, 2013, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • Earlier this week, Western Digital debuted the fruit of a partnership with SanDisk: a line of solid state hybrid drives bearing its "Black" branding. In light of the announcement, WD vice president Matt Rutledge recently discussed with The Tech Report…

IBM to invest $1 billion in flash storage research and development

IBM to invest $1 billion in flash storage research and development
  • Posted April 12, 2013, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Solid state drives could soon become a staple in the enterprise sector thanks to a recent commitment from IBM. Big Blue announced plans yesterday to invest $1 billion in the research and development of flash storage to help design and…

Solid state drive pricing dropped 38% in 2012

Solid state drive pricing dropped 38% in 2012
  • Posted January 16, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Solid state drives had a big year in 2012; not because of any controller breakthrough or performance barriers tackled but rather the fact that pricing dropped significantly over the past 12 months. Per gigabyte pricing for flash-based storage is still…

Tuesday tech deals: 256GB Agility 4 $130, iPhone 5 $150 w/ contract

Tuesday tech deals: 256GB Agility 4 $130, iPhone 5 $150 w/ contract
  • Posted December 11, 2012, 2:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Tech Deals
  • 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...

Everspin first to ship ST-MRAM, claims 500x faster than SSDs

Everspin first to ship ST-MRAM, claims 500x faster than SSDs
  • Posted November 13, 2012, 3:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • Arizona-based Everspin Technologies announced yesterday (pdf) that it has become the world's first MRAM supplier, shipping its own ST-MRAM (Spin-Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory) chips to select customers. The non-volatile storage medium is said to be 500 times faster than current…

Tuesday tech deals: 256GB Agility 4 $130, MS Store ultrabook sale

Tuesday tech deals: 256GB Agility 4 $130, MS Store ultrabook sale
  • Posted November 6, 2012, 2:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Tech Deals
  • 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...

Samsung creates flash-friendly, open source file system: F2FS

Samsung creates flash-friendly, open source file system: F2FS
  • Posted October 8, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • Samsung codesmith Jaegeuk Kim has submitted a new "flash-friendly" file system to the Linux Kernel tree. The new file system, coined F2FS (flash-friendly file system), is actually open source and is the embodiment of Samsung's efforts to develop a file…

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