SSD

Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers

Data centers with servers attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) can suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute. Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limi

Samsung’s new 4TB SSD costs about as much as a MacBook Pro

For those in need of substantial PC storage, spinning hard drives are still very much a reality. That’s changing, of course, though not quite as quickly as many upgraders are hoping. $700 will get y

New Drobo Mini Hard Drive Now Comes With SSDs, Ruggedized Flash Array

Connected Data announced the latest addition to its extensive family of external storage devices: the portable, rugged and expandable Drobo Mini with Solid-State Drives (SSD).

PernixData Launches With Goal To Become The VMware Of Flash

<a target="_blank" href="http://pernixdata.com/">PernixData</a> today launched its Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP) for clustering flash to get higher levels of performance. It's similar to how VM

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

Intel Announces New Solid-State Drives

Today, Intel announced a new line of solid-state drives: the Intel SSD 510 Series. The new drives operate over 6Gbps SATA to take advantage of Intel’s new higher speed SATA bus interface (like t

With SSD, Gran Turismo 5 Load Times Are Halved

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/gt5ssd.jpg" />Fact: if you install <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/gran-turismo-5/">Gran Turismo 5</a> on your PS3's hard drive yo

Apple To PhotoFast: Stop Making MacBook Air SSD Upgrade Kits That Make Ours Look Like Rubbish

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ssdkit.jpg" />Looks like <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/apple/">Apple</a> is playing the heel again. It has asked PhotoFast to st

Toshiba Releases "Blade-Type" SSD Modules Up To 256GB

While I doubt the MacBook Air will render her secrets very willingly, you can, with a little effort, upgrade your SSD modules using Toshiba’s 2.2mm mSATA chips. The chips, called the Blade X-gal

Kingston's SSDNow V+100 Drive Is One More Reason I'm Not Investing In SSD Yet

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/SSDVP100_angle_top_256GB.jpg" />Here's a little tidbit of news; nothing ground-breaking, but right in line with a trend I've been watchin

Hitachi Announces Hybrid Optical Drive With SSD

Hitachi announced a new optical drive, a Hybrid SATA III which combines the optical technology with SSD. Details are non-existent, but combining an optical drive and with an SSD drive and you’re

OCZ announces Onyx 2 SSDs

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/oczonyx2.jpg" />OCZ just announced their latest SSD drive, the Onyx 2. The Onyx 2 is a 2.5 inch drive rated at a 270MBps read speed, and

Review: G-DRIVE Mini [UPDATE]

The G-Drive Mini has a lot to offer for people who need FW and USB connectivity. There was some confusion about the retail price of this unit. You can get the HDD for $89 and that’s in the leagu

Sandisk Presents the Smallest 64GB SSD In The Whole World

Can you believe it? That thing is a SanDisk 64GB SSD, read for installation into the tablet of your choice. While 64GB isn’t much for fans of 3D HD porn, it’s plenty for a little bit of mu

Yet another roundup shows that a good SSD is still hard to find (for cheap)

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/money.jpg" />I keep looking at SSDs, and then I keep changing my mind. The right combination of price, performance, and storage capacity

Replace a MacBook Pro's optical drive with an SSD

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/mac-ssd-upgrade.jpg">It's a fact that no one uses optical drives anymore and so why not replace the one in your late-model MBP with somet

OCZ Enzo USB 3.0 SSD drive: Whoa, Nelly

Do you need 256GB of hard core storage running at 150MBps? I know you do. The OCZ Enzo, which is apparently only in render stage, looks like the monster that ate Cleaveland and should cost considerabl

ATP SSD connect to the USB header on your motherboad

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/SIP_eUSB_photo.jpg" />This is brilliant. I'm not 100% sure what the practical application is yet, but I think I want one. ATP built an SL

Look at that, someone (Super Talent) has finally thought to release relatively inexpensive SSDs

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/supertalent.jpg" />All the cool kids in the neighborhood are building their PCs with <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/solid-state-d

OCZ outs its 4th-gen PCI-Express SSD, the Z-Drive R2

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Z-drive-r2.jpg">OCZ just rolled out the deets about its latest PCI-Express-powered SSD and man is it impressive. Forgot about that WD Vel
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