SSD News

Another day another company for sale, or so it seems in the flash industry as of late. Texas Memory Systems has just announced that they are open to offers which is a bit unexpected for a company with 33 years in the field. A string of recent mergers toughens the playing field for Texas Memory Systems and other vendors. The …

OWC has long been a provider of high powered SSD solutions, and today they are getting named as a finalist for yet another trophy to add to their case. The Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSD has been named as a finalist for the Visionary Product Awards. The awards program is being held January 8, 2012, at the 11th annual …

Razer, well known for their gaming mice and high performance PC peripherals, has today announced a last minute upgrade to their upcoming blade line of gaming laptops. The enhanced notebook will now contain a 256 GB SSD, which replaces a 320 GB mechanical drive. Razer has made it very clear that the integration of an SSD will not affect pricing …

If you are looking for the perfect Christmas gift, there have been plenty of Intel SSD sales as of late and today’s find on the Intel 320 Series 160GB SSD is definitely a no brainer! Logic Buy and NewEgg have teamed up to make one of the best SSDs on the market less than a buck per gigabyte with free …

The Solid State Storage market is commanding much interest across a variety of applications and solutions. The technology provides clear advantages such as performance and power savings, however the landscape for suppliers remains grey. Who will be the winners, the losers, who will command the enterprise, the client, who will be bought and/or sold? My name is Wayne Eisenberg and …

Reports surfaced yesterday of Apple’s acquisition of Anobit, an Israeli start-up. According to the Israeli news site Calcalist.com and reported by Computerworld, Apple paid about $500 million to purchase the private company. The SSD market has seen consolidation and should see more. LSI’s most recent acquisition of SandForce reinforces the clamor for the ultimate edge, the holy grail of SSD, the controller and firmware. …

Seagate has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Samsung’s hard drive division. The transaction will go through for $1.4 billion. By gaining Samsung’s assets, Seagate will be sitting pretty in the HDD industry with a 40 percent market share. In 2010, Seagate sold 195.2 million units while Samsung let go of around 66 million units. Included in the …

STEC and Fujitsu have announced today that the ZeusIOPS series of SSDs has been integrated into the Fujitsu ETERNUS Systems. These ultra high performance disk systems also include the top of the line ETERNUS DX8700 S2 storage system. This integration will support multiple open system environments and virtualized infrastructures. This news comes right on the heels of the latest STEC …

Super Talent, well known for their high performance memory products and various storage solutions, is today releasing a superspeed USB SSD in capacities of 60GB, 120GB and 240GB. The Storage Pod Mini will perform faster than many internal hard drives, being able to achieve read and write speeds of 260 MB/s and 174 MB/s respectively, and of course is a …

With all the talk about flooding and shortages of mechanical hard drives, the time seems to be ripe for SSD sales to skyrocket. According to ZDNet, however, Intel is a little bit less than optimistic when it comes to a potential surge in SSD sales. This may be due to the fact that computer manufacturers still have a high number …