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• HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centers

  By Loek Essers | 01 May, 2012 19:53

  Western Digital company HGST on Tuesday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive for use in enterprise storage servers, delivering twice the throughput compared to current 6Gbps SAS technology.

• Free Tools to Wipe Your Drives Securely

  By Alex Wawro | 26 April, 2012 23:29

  Your PC's hard drive is packed with your personal data. So when you want to get rid of your system or drive, you should permanently erase your storage device drives before you get rid of them. If your drives are encrypted and you trust the encryption protocol (full disk encryption is pretty safe), all you have to do is delete your encryption keys. If you want to safeguard your privacy further--and prevent data theft down the road--here are a few cheap and simple tools designed to wipe your hard drive, solid-state drive, or USB flash drive thoroughly before you dispose of it.

• Intel ships new SSD 330 series, but limits it to 180GB storage

  By Agam Shah | 17 April, 2012 04:54

  Intel's streak of solid-state drive announcements has continued with the company announcing a new line of SSD 330 drives for mainstream computers but with maximum storage capacity of only 180GB.

• Intel drives up SSD storage capacity to 800GB

  By Agam Shah | 12 April, 2012 17:07

  Intel on Thursday announced new solid-state drives with storage of up to 800GB, which is a new high in capacity for the company's SSD products.

• Samsung eyes next generation of NAND to lower laptop cost

  By Stephen Lawson | 12 April, 2012 06:43

  A new type of NAND flash storage for consumer electronics that can store data more densely might lower the cost of devices such as tablets and thin "ultrabook" laptops, according to Samsung.

• Intel ships SSDs that help laptops boot faster

  By Agam Shah | 06 April, 2012 09:43

  Intel has started shipping a new series of small-capacity solid-state drives (SSDs) that can be used in laptops to reduce boot times and load applications more quickly.

• SSD prices will fall below $1 per GB in 2012, says IDC

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 January, 2012 03:54

  The price for SSDs (solid state drives) that are going into PCs are expected to fall below US$1 per gigabyte during the second half of 2012, further boosting adoption, market research company IDC said on Monday.

• Thai floods hit Q4 hard drive production, says research firm

  By John Ribeiro | 01 November, 2011 17:20

  The devastating floods in Thailand will cause a 28 percent quarter-on-quarter drop in hard disk drive (HDD) production in the fourth quarter, potentially affecting notebook production in early 2012, research firm IHS iSuppli said on Monday.

• Can you put an SSD and HDD in a laptop?

  By Lincoln Spector | 15 September, 2011 01:16

  After reading The Best of Both Worlds: An SSD and a HDD, George McCluney asked if it's possible to combine both drives on a laptop.

• Intel announces new 710 series enterprise SSDs

  By Agam Shah | 15 September, 2011 09:56

  Intel on Wednesday announced the new 710 series solid-state drives, which the company is pitching as a replacement to hard drives in enterprise servers.

• Intel posts fix for bug that crashes SSD 320 drives

  By Agam Shah | 18 August, 2011 06:46

  Intel on Wednesday issued a firmware upgrade that fixes a bug that caused its SSD 320 solid-state drives to crash and lose data, months after the issue first came to light.

• Intel to issue bug fix for SSD 320 drives in two weeks

  By Agam Shah | 16 August, 2011 03:40

  Intel on Monday said it will issue a firmware upgrade within two weeks to fix a bug that causes its SSD 320 solid-state drives to fail, which should resolve months of criticism of the company's slow response to the problem.

• NAND flash can verify a device's identity

  By Stephen Lawson | 13 August, 2011 09:51

  People who make, buy and sell flash storage could detect counterfeit products based on the unique "fingerprints" of the chips, using techniques being developed by university researchers.

• Samsung aims to drive up tablet storage with new SSDs

  By Agam Shah | 12 August, 2011 02:30

  Tablet users may need more storage capacity in the future, and Samsung Semiconductor on Thursday announced it is now making its fastest solid-state drives for tablets and laptops with capacity of up to 512GB.

• SSD drives promise to enhance storage performance, but a new host-interface-standard holds the key

  By Kam Eshghi Sr. | 09 August, 2011 05:52

  This vendor-written tech primer is submitted on the behalf of the NVMe Promoter Group, which is backed by Cisco, Dell, EMC, IDT, Intel, Micron, NetApp, Oracle, SandForce, and STEC. Readers should note it favors the NVMe's approach.