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Micron Technology, a major supplier of NAND flash, reported their first fiscal quarter earnings Wednesday evening. While the results were somewhat inconsistent and below analysts’ expectations (DRAM sales are slow), the word of the day when it comes to flash memory is “growth”! In the first quarter, Micron saw an approximately six percent increase in NAND sales. In addition, Micron …

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 …

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 …

Idealo News, a UK and European price comparison site, has mined its own data to analyze SSD pricing during the 4th quarter of 2011. Prices have been steadily declining from September to December of this year while 2.5 HDDs pricing continues to skyrocket as a result of Thailand flooding. This is very good news for the SSD consumer who will …

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 …

Laptop computers are now sporting a new option that is going to amaze most as a result of the visible speed improvement and many will never really understand why. Some will boast of  how quick their new laptop starts while others will read the fine print to see that there is this new thing called a solid state drive which …