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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…

Seagate finally joins consumer SSD market, revamps enterprise lineup

Seagate finally joins consumer SSD market, revamps enterprise lineup
  • Posted May 7, 2013, 3:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • Despite being one of the world's largest manufacturers of hard disk drives, Seagate has been somewhat slow or hesitant to jump into the SSD market, especially with consumer-focused drives. But today the company is finally getting serious about flash-based storage…

Hard drive shipments continue to slide as SSDs gain momentum

Hard drive shipments continue to slide as SSDs gain momentum
  • Posted May 7, 2013, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Just when it seemed the hard drive market had fully recovered from the devastating floods that hit Thailand in 2011, the venerable storage media has another threat on its hand: competition from solid state drives. Shipments of PC hard drives…

Intel's 80GB 335 Series SSD hits shelves

Intel
  • Posted April 24, 2013, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • This week Intel added an 80GB model to its current line-up of 335 Series SSDs. The 2.5-inch 80GB drive is Intel's third and possibly final addition to the 335 family poised to sit alongside its two larger 180GB and 240GB…

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…

OCZ Vertex 5 solid state drive expected to launch next month (update)

OCZ Vertex 5 solid state drive expected to launch next month (update)
  • Posted April 10, 2013, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Update: OCZ has confirmed the existence of a new solid state drive in the pipeline that will utilize an updated version of the Barefoot 3 controller alongside 20-nanometer NAND flash. The name of the new drive as well as the…

Crucial's M500 SSD now available for less than $0.60 per gigabyte

Crucial
  • Posted April 10, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Back in January during the Consumer Electronics Show, Micron unveiled the M500 solid state drive as a successor to the dated M4. The line, which uses the latest 20-nanometer multilevel cell (MLC) NAND flash technology, is now available for purchase…

Western Digital reinvests in enterprise solid state drive maker Skyera

Western Digital reinvests in enterprise solid state drive maker Skyera
  • Posted March 13, 2013, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Western Digital is lending a helping hand to Skyera in the form of strategic funding as part of a recently announced Series B round of financing. The duo said the investment is part of a strategic relationship that also includes…

Seagate unveils new SSHD series for laptops and desktops, combines speed with space

Seagate unveils new SSHD series for laptops and desktops, combines speed with space
  • Posted March 5, 2013, 10:02 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Seagate is moving ahead with its plan to offer high-speed, high-capacity hybrid drives as an alternative to more expensive pure SSD solutions. Shortly after confirming it’s dropping 7200RPM mobile hard drives by the end of the year, the company is…

Seagate to end 7200rpm mobile hard drive production this year

Seagate to end 7200rpm mobile hard drive production this year
  • Posted March 4, 2013, 10:19 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • Seagate has revealed it plans to end production of mobile hard drives with 7200rpm spindle speeds by the end of this year. Such drives represent a minority of 2.5-inch shipments and are mostly found in high-end laptops or built-to-order configurations,…

Intel introduces mSATA SSD 525 Series for Ultrabooks

Intel introduces mSATA SSD 525 Series for Ultrabooks
  • Posted January 28, 2013, 4:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • Intel has announced a new mSATA solid-state drive designed for Ultrabooks and low-power embedded applications. The SSD 525 Series is essentially an mSATA version of the 2.5-inch 520 SSD Series, and as such it’s also the company’s first drive in this…

IHS: SSD shipments to double in 2013 as ultrabook sales pick up

IHS: SSD shipments to double in 2013 as ultrabook sales pick up
  • Posted January 24, 2013, 9:37 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Solid-state drive shipments are set to more than double in 2013 bolstered by a new generation of lower-cost and more appealing ultrabooks, according to an IHS iSuppli report. The market research firm estimates worldwide shipments will rise to 83 million…

Tuesday tech deals: 480GB OCZ Solid 3 $280, 1 year XBL Gold $35

Tuesday tech deals: 480GB OCZ Solid 3 $280, 1 year XBL Gold $35
  • Posted January 22, 2013, 11:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Tech Deals
  • 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)...

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…

Western Digital showcases hybrid SSHD technology during CES

Western Digital showcases hybrid SSHD technology during CES
  • Posted January 10, 2013, 5:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Western Digital is showcasing a new hybrid solid state drive technology at CES known as SSHD. Tthe solution combines the speed of a solid state drive with the capacity of a traditional spinning hard drive much like we have see…

Micron and Crucial announce next generation M500 solid state drive

Micron and Crucial announce next generation M500 solid state drive
  • Posted January 10, 2013, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Micron has unveiled the M500 solid state drive that uses Micron’s latest 20-nanometer multilevel cell (MLC) NAND flash technology. Using the SATA 6Gbps interface, the M500 drives can deliver up to 80,000 IOPS with sequential read and write speeds topping…

Marvell invests in Memoright to supply firmware for solid state drives

Marvell invests in Memoright to supply firmware for solid state drives
  • Posted January 3, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Marvell Technology will be teaming up with Taiwan solid state drive maker Memoright as part of a deal that will see them use their controller ICs alongside Memoright’s firmware to build a completely new SSD, according to industry sources in…

Best of 2012: Gadgets and Tech Products

Best of 2012: Gadgets and Tech Products
  • Posted December 21, 2012, 5:03 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
  • From the perspective of folks who cover tech-related happenings, this is always a polarizing time of year. The final weeks of December are generally void of product announcements, yet only two weeks later, we're bombarded with new gadgets at CES.

    Before we move on to the latest and greatest devices of 2013, we figure it's worth revisiting some of 2012's most popular devices as suggested by our Product Finder, which includes reviews by hundreds of seasoned specialists across the Web. We've included 59 products across 14 categories along with their aggregate review score and a brief commentary that explains why they're special.

Samsung acquires SSD caching software developer Nvelo

Samsung acquires SSD caching software developer Nvelo
  • Posted December 17, 2012, 9:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Software
  • Samsung has announced the acquisition of Santa Clara, California based Nvelo. The latter has been operating for two years and is a leading vendor of caching software, with solid-state drive manufacturers OCZ Technology, Corsair and Crucial all bundling its Dataplex…

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...

Mushkin unveils 480GB mSATA SSD for ultrabooks, priced at $500

Mushkin unveils 480GB mSATA SSD for ultrabooks, priced at $500
  • Posted December 7, 2012, 10:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • With the advents of thin and light notebooks we've also seen flash memory replace traditional hard disk drives for storage. For all the advantges this presents -- no moving parts, thinner designs, faster performance -- it often means higher price…

Engineers use heat to create 100-million-cycle flash memory

Engineers use heat to create 100-million-cycle flash memory
  • Posted December 3, 2012, 6:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • 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...

OCZ Vector SSD Review: New Flagship Drive, Brand New Indilinx Controller

OCZ Vector SSD Review: New Flagship Drive, Brand New Indilinx Controller
  • Posted November 27, 2012, 11:00 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware Breaking News
  • Earlier this year we reviewed OCZ's flagship Vertex 4 SSD which at the time we were lead to believe was based on a second-generation Everest controller developed in-house. Eventually it was revealed and later confirmed by OCZ that the Octane and Vertex 4 drives actually used Marvell controllers with firmware developed in-house by the Indillinx team. While we acknowledged that it was very sneaky on OCZ’s behalf, it also didn’t change things much for us. Regardless of who did or didn't make the controller, the Vertex 4 was still one of the best performers and best values in the high-end SSD segment.

    So with the controversy of the Vertex 4 almost behind them, OCZ is finally ready to unveil its first truly in-house SSD controller. It's been three years since Indilinx released a brand new controller and they are doing so today with the Barefoot 3, which is to be featured in OCZ’s latest SSD series known as Vector.

Cyber Monday deals: 180GB Intel 520 SSD $130, 50" HDTV $430

Cyber Monday deals: 180GB Intel 520 SSD $130, 50" HDTV $430
  • Posted November 26, 2012, 2:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Tech Deals
  • Best Buy offers the Intel 520 Series 180GB SSD for $129.99 with free shipping ($0.72/GB). That's $60 under a July deal and the lowest total price we could find now by $59. Sales tax is added where applicable. Features include read speeds of up to 550MB/s and write speeds of 520MB/s...

Tuesday tech deals: Samsung 830 256GB $168, 60" Sharp HDTV $700

Tuesday tech deals: Samsung 830 256GB $168, 60" Sharp HDTV $700
  • Posted November 20, 2012, 2:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Tech Deals
  • MacMall offers the Samsung 256GB 830 Series Serial ATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal SSD, model no. MZ-7PC256B/WW, for $167.99 with free shipping ($0.66/GB). That's the lowest total price we could find for this drive by $21, although we saw it for $12 less last month. It features read...

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