Solid State Disk
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Seagate sets 5-year target for 2-billionth drive
News Hard drive maker sees flash-based drives only as "incremental" growth for both the industry and company, according to a Seagate executive.
Tags: Storage, Components, Sales strategy, Solid State Disk, India, Philippines, Seagate Technology LLC, Notebook, hard drive, marketing
Room for other devices alongside mobiles
News Even though mobile phones are getting more sophisticated, other portable devices will continue to reach parts of the market that phones cannot, says IDC.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Development/design, Web sites, SMB, Mobile, India, International Data Corp., Chip, phone, hard drive
Intel's next-gen memory closer to reality
News Intel and Numonyx announced practical advancements they believe will make phase-change memory meet its performance and capacity promise.
Tags: Memory, Personal Computers, Processors, Intel Corp., Computer, Chip, Storage, Memory, processor, hard drive
SSDs: Nothing to fear but the hype
News The hard disk industry will not face a "disaster", says analyst, as solid state drives have limitations, including a steeper price and a limited number of writes.
Tags: Memory, Storage, Solid State Disk, Mobile, Seagate Technology LLC, International Data Corp., Storage, hard disk drive industry, Hard-disk Industry, hard drive
Wozniak joins SSD start-up
News Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will join solid-state drive firm Fusion-io as chief scientist and technical adviser, after having served on the company's advisory board.
Tags: Storage, Leadership, Solid State Disk, Steve Wozniak, Chief Scientist, Storage, mainframe computer, Computer, Fusion-io, advisory board
Samsung develops flash-based disk
News Disks will have a capacity of up to 16GB; first disks will target sub-notebooks and tablet PCs.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Personal storage
Flash drives: Your mileage will vary
Techguide Flash drives can have really terrible write performance, but until I ran into it myself I had no idea how bad flash write performance could be.
Tags: Storage
Toshiba Portégé R600-101
Reviews The Portégé R600 is a very alluring 1.11kg ultraportable, although the transflective screen mode, some aspects of build quality and battery life could all be better.
Tags: Battery, Intel Corp., Toshiba Portege, Graphics, Wireless, Notebook, Portégé R600, Windows Experience Index, optical drive, processor
EMC launches higher-capacity enterprise flash
News The company believes demand for higher-capacity flash drives is growing, and has rolled out 200GB and 400GB versions for its three main storage lines.
Tags: Data centers, EMC Corp., Storage, Gartner Inc., Pillar Data Systems, finance industry, EMC Celerra, PCI, disk storage, enterprise storage
MSI launches hybrid HDD/SSD netbook
News The Taiwanese manufacturer's latest low-cost sub-notebook uses a solid-state drive for primary tasks and a hard-disk drive for storage.
Tags: Desktops, Storage, Components, Battery, Storage, USB, MSI, U115 Hybrid, Intel Atom, Webcam
Intel toots its research horn for chips--and more
News Chipmaker struts its stuff for next-generation networking, processors, energy efficiency and wireless power transmission at its research day.
Tags: Components, Networking, Technology, Intel Corp., Data, Photonics, Chip, Wireless, Wireless Network, computer
IBM 'Quicksilver' flash sets data-speed record
News A project under development from IBM is setting new records for data-transfer speeds using solid-state technology with one million IOPS.
Tags: Storage, Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Storage, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM eServer BladeCenter, performance, I/O, hard drive
Quantum cancels Snap server spinoff
News An unappealing investment market has led storage specialist Quantum to cancel its plan to spin off its Snap server division.
Asus unveils Philippine low-cost laptop
News Hardware maker launches first of its eePC laptop series, running on Linux OS and 4GB storage, in the Philippines for US$457. More variants to be released in early-2008.
