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  • SSD sales up last year, despite recession

    SSD sales up last year, despite recession

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    So it wasn't all bleak last year, SSD manufacturers experienced a 14% increase in sales, along with a total of over 11 million drives sold. That's a whole lot of memory chips.

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  • Seagate finally shows up at the solid state drive party with an enterprise offering

    Seagate finally shows up at the solid state drive party with an enterprise offering

    Posted on December 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Seagate, the big huge hard drive company, has just now officially announced its first ever solid state drive. The press release title says “Seagate Introduces Its First Solid State Drive: Pulsar” and above the title it says “December 08, 2009.” To be fair, Seagate CEO Bill Watkins hasn’t been keen on solid state drives, saying a little over a year ago that his company wasn’t really considering the solid state market aside from these enterprise-level drives that have just been announced.

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  • OCZ Colossus finally hits retailers

    OCZ Colossus finally hits retailers

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Get your wallet ready; OCZ's Colossus line has finally hit the shelves. We were expecting them back in August, but it seems that there must have been some difficulties.

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  • Toshiba announces two new mini SSDs weighing just 9 grams

    Toshiba announces two new mini SSDs weighing just 9 grams

    Posted on September 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Toshiba today announced it has developed mini SSDs (pictured on the right hand side) that are just a seventh of the size of existing 2.5-inch drives. The Toshiba drives will features a mini-SATA (aka mSATA) interface connector, as specified by the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) just yesterday. The new specification is designed for notebooks and similar portable devices.

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  • Kingston starts shipping SSDNow V+

    Kingston starts shipping SSDNow V+

    Posted on August 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Boasting blistering read and write IOPS speeds, Kingston has just announced that the latest SSDNow drives, V+, are now shipping. Ranging from 64GB up to 256GB, the V+ drives have claimed read and writes speeds of 220MB/s and 180MB/s, respectively. The 2.5-inch drives are priced as follows for the 64GB, 128GB and 256GB models: $254, [...]

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  • OCZ’s 1TB SSD Colossus due out this month for ~$2500

    OCZ’s 1TB SSD Colossus due out this month for ~$2500

    Posted on August 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Introduced at Computex in June, the aptly named Colossus 1TB SSD from OCZ is expected to hit store shelves later this month, says Gizmag. The 14.1-ounce 3.5-inch drive claims to have a read speed of 250MB/s and write speeds up to 220MB/s via SATA2. The RAID 0 compliant drive will supposedly hit store shelves later this month for ~$2500.

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