Kingston Technology Company’s Flash memory affiliate Kingston Digital, Inc. is announcing its newest addition to the SSDNow product line, the KC300 solid-state drive. The KC300 maximizes power efficiencies in notebook PCs, enabling business, mobile and power users to markedly increase productivity. The KC300 utilizes SandForce’s second-generation SF-2281 processor to provide advanced power management. The KC300 replaces the Kingston V+200 and …
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SanDisk Announces Second Generation of 19nm Flash Products
SanDisk Corporation, world-leading flash memory storage solutions provider, is announcing that it has begun customer sampling of their industry-leading 1Ynm process technology for flash memory products. This represents SanDisk’s second generation of 19nm (or smaller) manufacturing technology. SanDisk’s latest breakthrough achievement reduces the memory cell size from 19nm X 26nm to 19nm X 19.5nm, resulting in a 25% reduction of …
Read More »Innodisk Announces SATA nanoSSD Capable of 480MB/s Performance
Innodisk, designers and manufacturers of commercial and industrial SSDs, is announcing release of the world’s first SATA device that meets SATA uSSD standards — the nanoSSD. By integrating a control chip, flash memory and peripheral power components into an individual ball grid array (BGA) package, Innodisk has realized a reduction in the size of the nanoSSD to almost 1% of …
Read More »SSDs Rack Up Major Growth Gains; Trend Expected to Continue For Several Years
SSDs continue to gain market share versus HDDs, according to a recent report from market research analysts IHS. This trend is forecast to continue for several years. SSD shipments in PCs are forecast to grow by a whopping 122% from 2012 to 2013! Chart source: ihs-isuppli As shown in the chart above (spanning 2012 through 2017), HDD shipments in PCs …
Read More »Kevin Wagner Joins Diablo Technologies As Vice President Of Marketing
Diablo Technologies has announced that Kevin Wagner has joined its executive team as Vice President of Marketing. Wagner’s nearly 20 years’ experience and leadership in product marketing, program management and strategic alliances, primarily in enterprise markets, further expands the talents of the Diablo executive organization. Wagner comes to Diablo from OCZ Technology, a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives for …
Read More »WD And SanDisk Collaborate To Produce 2.5″ SSD / HDD Hybrid Drive
WD, a Western Digital company, and SanDisk Corporation, a world leader in flash memory products, are announcing that the two companies have collaborated to bring to market SSD / HDD hybrid storage drives. These hybrid drives will combine best-in-class flash memory technology from SanDisk with best-in-class hard drive technology from WD. This powerful combination will greatly improve PC user experiences …
Read More »Seagate Unveils SSD Portfolio Of Client,Server, 12Gb/s SAS and PCIe SSD Capable of 1.1 Mil IOPS
Seagate this morning announced an entire line of solid state drives to encompass consumer and enterprise SATA, enterprise 12Gb/s SAS and enterprise PCIe applications. It’s consumer retail and server level introductions are the Seagate 600 and 600 Pro SSDs, the 600 client SSD being the first SSD released at a z-height of 5mm. Seagate supplied TSSDR with a 480GB version …
Read More »RunCore Kylin III MAX PCIe Enterprise SSD Achieves 3GB/s Performance and Up To 4.6TB Of Storage
Running through the Runcore website recently resulted in a very interesting find in the name of the RunCore Kylin III MAX PCIe Gen2 SSD. The Kylin III MAX represents one of, if not the highest capacity and performance combination of a PCIe SSD that we have seen to date yet. It is a full-length native PCIe card utilizing a controller …
Read More »Corsair Announces SSD Drive Cloning Kit And SSD Toolbox Software
Corsair, global designer and provider of high performance computing components, is announcing availability of two new products for their SSD line. First is the SSD Hard Disk Drive Cloning Kit, which allows users to migrate their data easily from one drive to another. The second is the Corsair SSD Toolbox, which is a free software utility that enables Corsair SSDs …
Read More »OWC Announces Envoy Pro EX USB 3.0 Bus-Powered Portable SSD
Other World Computing (OWC), a leading Mac and PC technology innovator, is announcing the OWC Envoy Pro EX ultra-portable SSD. The anodized aluminum case matches modern Macs and PCs. The Envoy Pro EX is portable enough to fit into a briefcase, backpack, or even a coat pocket. OWC’s rugged, high-performance storage and/or backup solution is now highly mobile. A SandForce controlled …
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