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Have you ever wondered how a smart phone, IPOD or even an IPAD can work at such speed and instant access, yet your computer takes over a minute to start?  That question just might be the reason that you have joined us in our series ‘Learning To Run With Flash’ and, if so, congratulations!  You are about to enter a …

Each day in the technology field there is a new advancement or improvement, whether that be faster solid state drive’s, televisions with increased visual quality, or cameras that take pictures in extreme detail. However, with these improvements it is common to find a subfield that slows down the process, such in the case of videography and it’s storage. As the …

Plextor, a leading producer of digital storage devices, is announcing the launch of its new M6M mSATA solid-state drive (SSD), which is optimized to bring real-world high-performance to compact devices such as tablets, laptops, notebooks and Ultrabooks.  Installing an M6M into such a mobile device will result in maximized system responsiveness and improved battery life. The M6M is capable of …

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., global leader in advanced memory solutions, is announcing that its industry-first NVMe PCIe 1.6TB SSD is to be featured in Dell’s new R920 PowerEdge server.  This partnership between Samsung and Dell gives them the distinction of being first in the world to ship a computing solution with SSDs that use the NVMe (non-volatile memory express) protocol, …

Team Group, a leading global producer of memory storage products, is announcing its newest solid-state drive (SSD), the MP1 mSATA SSD.  The MP1 brings outstanding performance to notebooks, Ultrabooks, Tablets and Next Unit of Computing (NUC) devices.  At merely 1/8 the size of a standard 2.5″ SSD, the MP1 offers the thinnest and lightest storage solution to date from Team …

Spring cleaning time is upon us. While your on that path, why not cleanup your computer as well.  Backup those things you really want, print a few of those pictures you have taken and clean out that email you will never get to. If you haven’t already upgraded to an SSD, consider it and save yourself some valuable time. Oh, …

Last week I posted the comment on a social site that stated, “If you are a friend of mine and still use a hard drive, I am embarrassed for you”. This drew criticism that I truly never expected, much from friends who responded through private thoughts back to me, some that I would never print. I was definitely taken aback …

Toshiba and Sandisk have filed separate lawsuits seeking damages from SK Hynix, and have alleged that the company has profited from the theft of data relating to NAND flash memory technology.  Toshiba and SanDisk have been partners for a number of years on the production of flash memory chip technology for mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets.  Toshiba currently …

Kingston Digital, Inc, the flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., is announcing that its M.2 2260 SATA solid-state drive (SSD) will be featured in the ASUS Zenbook UX301LA and UX301LAA.  The ASUS Zenbook UX301LA will include a single 128GB Kingston M.2 2260 SATA SSD, while the UX301LAA will feature a pair of the M.2 2260’s configured in RAID0, …

It’s been some time since Crucial introduced the M500 Series SSD and, as it was when first released, the M500 remains to be a top value premium SSD offering. At $439 for a 960GB M500, this translates to .43/GB which is still lower than some premium SSDs of half that capacity.  Not so much a difficulty with respect their  target …

The following article is a reprint of a recent post at the LSI Blog that we felt would be of great benefit to our readers.  Our thanks to LSI, Kent Smith and Jeremy Werner for their work and the opportunity to report information that we feel might be a great reading opportunity for our readers.  Please check out the LSI …

It doesn’t matter what your job title is, what matters is what you contribute. Time after time I am confronted with this situation. As a partner in a successful business I work mostly behind the scenes, while working on the front line of another successful business. I find it interesting that some people think that because you are not always …

Of all the e-mail we receive, perhaps the most surprising are the number that are dedicated specifically to PCIe SSD Cards.  Which has the most capacity?  Will this work for such and such?  Would you trust this for the long-term?  What is the best bang for the buck?  Questions with respect to PCIe SSDs continue to hit our inbox daily, …

Our report today will demonstrate single and RAID tests when we combine the newest ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac motherboard with eight HGST SSD800MM SAS 12Gbps 400GB enterprise SSDs.  Our charts will display how the HGST SSD800MM scales as it is tested on its own, as well as in RAID 0 at X2, X4 and X8 combinations.  We can validate right off …

ADATA Technology, a leading producer of high performance NAND flash products and DRAM modules, is announcing the release of a firmware update, version 5.2.5, for ADATA SSDs that are equipped with LSI SandForce SF-2200 series controllers.  The models affected by this firmware update are:  SX910, SX900, SP900, SP800, S511, S510 and S396. The new firmware update improves SATA stability, and …