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BitMicro Networks, well known for their industrial and military class SSD products, has announced the successful tape out of their new TALINO-DE SSD controller. Aimed squarely at the enterprise and government sectors, the TALINO-DE will enable SSD capacities of up to 5 TB. Other features include full data path protection, end-to-end data integrity, hardware AES encryption, embedded XOR engines for enhanced raid …

Kingmax, well known for their high performance memory and storage products, has announced the release of their SMP32 Client and SMU32 Client Pro SSDs. Based on the SF-2281, both the regular and Pro versions will feature read/write speeds of 550MB/s and 520MB/s respectively. The Vanilla Client drive will offer up to 60K read and 35K write IOPS, while the Client …

According to market research firm iSuppli, caching SSD shipments are set to increase 100 fold over the next four years. The main catalyst for this remarkable growth is the expected massive proliferation of Ultrabooks, whose presence was undeniable at this years CES. While success isn’t guaranteed, it’s clear that the industry has high hopes for this market, and is going …

Its an amazing opportunity to be chosen amongst the few to view and, in some cases, test out the upcoming products of the future. This ‘invite only’ event was held at the exquisite Wynn Hotel and is Showstoppers, hosting approximately 300 press reporters from around the globe. Some of these products have been available for a short time, while others …

Crucial released a new firmware upgrade today for Crucial M4 SSD owners to prevent occurrences of the 5200 hour bug. The firmware can be found here and applies to all capacities of the Crucial M4 SSD.  The bug itself would affect the m4 through an incorrect response to the SMART counter after 5184 hours of power on time and the …

In response to our readers requests, we attended the Rosewill Suite at The Mirage for CES this year to take a look at their award winning products. This was not a difficult decision as Chinny Chuang, Rosewill Marketing Manager, happens to be a long time friend and one of the best people you could ever know. We were pleasantly surprised …

For those thinking that the Consumer Electronics Show is for PC Geeks only think again!  The name of the game is electronics and there is no shortage of what can be done in the electrical engineering of todays automobiles. Just about every big name one can think of has a display at CES and, well, this year, I simply couldn’t …

Although not SSD related, the overwhelming response from last years CES Booth Babe edition , and then that of Computex, has encouraged our posting of a few of the highlights of CES 2012 again this year. For those who are not fortunate enough to attend this event as it is not open to the public, lets just say that companies …

To those wondering what this might have to do with SSDs whatsoever, these pictures were taken at the Intel MSI Patriot Party at the Palms Hardwood Suite, The Palms, Las Vegas. The party was hosted by absolutely gorgeous ‘referee’ hostesses as well as a few stunning Playboy Bunnies who were also in attendance.  As much as we were going to …

DigiSAFE DiskCrypt is an innovate device, and it shows, Winning the International CES Innovations 2012 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for the second time! The first time this prestigious award was bestowed upon this innovative product was in 2010, and the commission has seen fit to grant the award again. Certainly a popular product for ST Electronics, the DiskCrypt is …