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Seagate unveils first solid-state drive
News update Hard-drive maker finally gets into SSD game with new Pulsar, while executive points to additional products in the pipeline.
Tags: Storage, Memory, Hitachi Ltd., Western Digital Corp., iSuppli Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, Singapore, Storage, OEM, Serial ATA
APAC HPC users eye solid-state drives
News update Some supercomputing users in the region are trialing flash memory for added boost, says a vendor, but an analyst notes SSDs won't be common "anytime soon".
Tags: Supercomputing, Memory, NEC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Computing, e-mail, I/O, hard drive, high-performance, flash memory
Memory price hikes fail to dampen SSD growth
News Recent NAND flash price spikes' impact on shipments of solid-state drives has been "modest", with 2009 units expected to jump 100 percent year-on-year, says IDC.
Tags: Memory, Pricing, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard Co., iSuppli Corp., PC Company, International Data Corp., Spokesperson, Small And Medium Business, NAND
Dell launches 256GB solid-state drives for XPS
News The latest solid-state drive for the company's laptop range offers U.S. customers increased capacity at a low cost.
Tags: Mobile processors, Notebooks and tablets, Samsung-manufactured 256GB SSD, Laptop Computer, U.K., U.S., Dell Computer Corp., Notebooks and tablets, Mobile processors, SSD
Asus cuts Eee PC storage options
News The manufacturer will soon stop offering a choice between solid-state and hard-disk storage for its Eee PC, an Asus spokesperson has said.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Spokesperson, Storage, memory capacity, ASUS, hard drive, U.K., Dell Computer Corp., company representative, PC
Analyst: Tardiness in SSD game hurt Seagate
News Hard-drive maker's impending closure of manufacturing facility in Singapore, which includes 2,000 layoffs, was in part due to its late adoption of solid-state drives.
Tags: Storage, Memory, Sales/revenue, Western Digital Corp., Manufacturing, Seagate Technology LLC, Singapore, net income, financial, analyst
Memory price hikes make SSDs less attractive
News Surging prices for NAND-type flash memory creates new hurdle for adoption of solid-state drives by making them significantly more expensive.
Tags: Memory, Pricing, Intel Corp., iSuppli Corp., Price, Chip Company, NAND, Notebook, NAND Flash, Pricing
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, Chip, Wireless, Wireless Network, Photonics, computer
Is flash a bright spot in recession?
News Fall in consumer demand is affecting its growth, but surge in smartphones and solid-state drives bodes well for flash from 2011 in Asia, say observers.
Tags: Memory, Smart Phone, Asia, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Storage, Sun Microsystems Inc., enterprise storage, recession, flash memory
Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)
Reviews Intel's X-25M solid-state drive enjoys several advantages over both conventional disk drives and other SSDs, including improvements to data throughput, boot time and notebook battery life. If you can forget about the cost, this is by far the fastest data drive available.
Tags: Battery, Intel Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Notebook, notebook hard drive, Gist, hard drive, flash memory, desktop
Samsung mass producing 256GB SSDs
News The manufacturer claims its 2.5-inch, quarter-terabyte solid-state drives offer the "highest overall performance" of any SSDs being used in the PC industry today.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Storage, Notebook, Computer, performance, hard drive, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., marketing, industry, disk
OEMs must take hard, solid look at disk drives
News They should quit pitting hard disk drives against solid-state drives, and focus on the strengths of each to add value in offerings, analyst urges.
Tags: Storage, Memory, Semiconductor, Storage, OEM, hard drive, IM, Micron Technology Inc., revenue, vice president
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
Sun introduces 2TB flash storage array
News F5100 Flash Array will deliver a low-power performance boost to transaction-heavy database operations, while cutting power usage, says Sun Microsystems.
Tags: Components, Memory, Intel Corp., F5100, Archiving, Storage, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., performance, I/O
