Solid State

Phononic raises $30 million to rethink refrigeration

A startup based in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, Phononic, wants to make refrigeration and temperature control far more efficient, and steadier, than is possible with traditional systems

Mushkin Pushes The Envelope On Flash Storage For Ultrabooks With New 480GB mSATA Solid State Drive

Flash memory maker <a target="_blank" href="http://www.myprgenie.com/view-publication/mushkin-announces-worlds-first-480gb-msata-solid-state-drive?user_type=mc&ref_no=NTk4Mzcz%250A">Mushkin</a> to

32GB, 64GB SSD modules for your Eee PC on sale soon

Should 4GB or 8GB prove to be too small for your Eee PC needs, Green House in Japan has two larger capacity modules that may interest you. There’s a 32GB and 64GB module, and they just slip righ

Micron pumps out 256GB solid-state drives

Welcome to the era of no moving parts. Micron is preparing 256GB solid state drives for use in laptops and mini PCs and expect to have working models available in the next year. No pricing, but the dr

Claim: This is the world's thinnest 256MB SSD

[photopress:FSD56GC25H.jpg,full,right] Super Talent Technology claims that this solid state drive (SSD) is the world’s thinnest, with a capacity of 256MB. Does that really matter to us in any pr

Fast 128GB solid state drives coming in April

Solid state drive capacity and availability continues to grow with the announcement of Mtron’s 128GB 1.8-inch SSD. It’ll have maximum read/write speeds of 120MBps and 100MBps, respectively

1.6 terabyte solid state drive drops my jaws

BiTMICRO has apparently forgotten what decade we hare in and gone straight to the Star Trek era of storage. Their Ultra320 SCSI SSD holds a whopping 1,600 gigabytes of data and has sustained data tran

Benchmarks: MacBook Air hard drive vs. solid state

[photopress:2199168271_639147cd5d.jpg,full,center] From this guy’s Flickr The MacBook Air is finding its way into wanting hands and some early benchmarks have been tallied. There’s two mai

HP offers 16GB solid-state drive in new small PC

Hewlett Packard has a new “ultra-slim” PC available starting at $729 with an optional 16GB solid-state hard drive for an additional $328 if you configure one to your liking. So for almost

Why is Apple charging $1,300 more for the solid state-based MacBook Air?

[photopress:mbaexpen.jpg,full,center] Is a 64GB solid state (flash) drive and 200 megahertz worth $1,300? Apple must think it is, given the pricing for the MacBook Air. The Apple Store is going up and

128GB Of Raw, Uncut Solid State Memory

Remember when having a 100GB hard drive meant you could install all your games and have bragging room left over? The days of 100GB hard drives could vanish soon with the release of a 2.5-inch solid st

SanDisk SSD Ultra ATA 5000 Ready For Primetime

SanDisk feels it’s ready to take on the mobile PC market with its first solid-state hard drive. The SSD Ultra ATA 5000 1.8-inch hard drive comes in a 32GB size and can boot Windows Vista Enterprise

Fujitsu Gets Into The Solid-State Game

Fujitsu has announced that they will begin offering 16GB and 32GB Solid State Disks in their Lifebook Q and B series laptops. The drives are manufactured by Samsung, and you’re going to want one

TDK Hits 32GB With NAND

TDK has announced that it’s reached a capacity of 32GB with its new IDE compatible NAND Flash memory. The Flash disk is roughly 20 percent smaller in size than a standard 2.4-inch notebook drive