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So we were just winding down from CES 2012 last week and bidding adieu to many of our friends for another year when we popped by the Super Talent booth. Our relationship with ST goes back a few years and Peter Carcione, Super Talents Director of Marketing, is a good friend who always seems to have something up his sleeve.  …

Memoright is one of the first to introduce solid state drives at the consumer level and we did reviews of their early introductions in 2008. We are happy to see that they have expanded to North America and were fortunate to catch up with them at this years Storage Visions 2012, Las Vegas. Showcasing a number of SSDs, Memoright has …

PureSilicon, well known for their SSD products aimed at military and server applications, has announced the release of their Kage K1 series of SSDs which will be offered with both SATA III and USB 3.0 interfaces. The SATA drive is built around a Sandforce controller and will offer read and write speeds of 540 MB/s and 520 MB/s respectively not …

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 …

There seems to be no doubt in anyone’s mind that 2012 is going to be the year of the ultrabook and CES 2012 Las Vegas was front and center with just about every ultrabook available, or soon to be, this past week. Today’s report will examine three forerunners that appear to be in a position, above all others at this …

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 …

With some of the recent bugs that have plagued certain SSDs, users are more sensitive to the safety of their data now more than ever. In order for SSDs to move into the mainstream the adoption of the technology by new users needs to be as pain free and simple as possible. Mix that with some peace of mind, and …