SSD

All the cool kids are playing SSDs these days. So much so that every manufacturer wants of piece of the sweet cherry pie. Even Plextor who was previously known as an optical drive/media company has a

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/intel-x25-v-ssd.jpg">While most <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/ssd/">SSDs </a>currently cost more than netbooks and iPhones, ther

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ssd.jpg" />My aunt called last night to ask about a laptop she saw advertised in the weekly circular. It had most of the features she wan

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/51Fd5X0owQL._SS400_.jpg">Solid state hard drives are increasing in popularity mainly because more are reaching the consumer market, there

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/wd-siliconedge-bllue-top.jpg" />I got up this morning and started thinking about the next thing I wanted to add to my PC. Like many of yo

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/corsair-ssd-force-series-200-go-11.jpg">Forget about the just-announced <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/02/26/the-just-announced-

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sideview.jpg">It seems like nearly every computer accessory maker has a line of SSDs now and Plextor just joined that club with two SSDs.

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/corsair-nova.jpg"><a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/Corsair/">Corsair</a> isn't a new player in the SSD game, but it has some new en

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/146680-raidon_hybrid_disk_thumb_original.jpg" />Raidon showed off their new HyBrid drive enclosure recently, a strange combination of an

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/C25_3G_SSD_120GB_angle.jpg" alt="" />It’s beginning to look like Expensive Speed Day here at CrunchGear, what with the USB 3.0 products

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ssd_keio.jpg" /> SSDs haven't found their way into the mass market yet, but a team of Japanese researchers is already trying to make the

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Pulsar.jpg" />So it wasn't all bleak last year, SSD manufacturers experienced a 14% increase in sales, along with a total of over 11 mill

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/pulsarplain_highres.jpg">Seagate, the big huge hard drive company, has just now officially announced its first ever solid state drive. Th

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/colossus_tall_b.jpg" />Get your wallet ready; OCZ's Colossus line has finally hit the shelves. We were expecting them <a href="http://www

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/SSD_toshiba.jpg" /> Toshiba today <a href="http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2009_09/pr_j2201.htm">announced</a> it has developed min

Boasting blistering read and write IOPS speeds, Kingston has just announced that the latest SSDNow drives, V+, are now shipping. Ranging from 64GB up to 256GB, the V+ drives have claimed read and writ

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/colossus.jpg" alt="" />Introduced at Computex in June, the aptly named Colossus 1TB SSD from OCZ is expected to hit store shelves later t

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/big_ocz-colossus1.jpg" />This is something we've seen in super-high-end storage systems, but is now being implemented on a enthusiast con

SSDs are still mad expensive, but Lexar has just announced a wicked fast line of Crucial SSDs, M225. Available in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, the 2.5-inch drives boast 250MB/sec read speeds and 200MB/sec

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/corsair-s256-ssd-drive.jpg" />For high performance drives, SSD seems to be where it's at these days. Corsair is at the forefront of the m