At Intel Developer Forum 2011, Intel has been touting the advantages that consumers and businesses can have by switching over to SSDs. While consumers might be quick to look just at the performance improvements, businesses are looking at things ranging from the costs to upgrade to the savings from productivity boosts. As it turns out

SanDisk made a splash today at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) where we just happen to be. The company is announcing that it’s teaming with Intel and others to develop and implement a new low-powered SATA-IO standard for SSDs. Called SATA DEVSLP, the initiative aims to reduce the power consumption of high-speed SSDs to as

QNAP has announced two new 2U, 8-drive rackmount Turbo NAS models supporting up to 24TB of storage. They are available with a dual-core Intel Core i3 processor or a quad-core Intel Xeon and 2GB – 4GB of ECC RAM. 

In late July OCZ announced they were shipping their first Indilinx-based SSD design, code named Everest, to OEMs. LG is now offering a slim 128GB Everest SSD in their LG Xnote P220 to deliver great operational performance and "fast boot technology," which enables genuine instant on functionality for LG’s notebooks. 

Kingston has released the SSDNow KC100, a SandForce equipped SATA 6Gb/s SSD geared toward client systems in the enterprise. The KC100, which Kingston calls a "business-equipped" SSD, offers a five year warranty, which may offer more peace of mind to IT departments than the performance specs, which include read speeds up to 555 MB/s and

Western Digital has released new mobile apps for accessing personal content on the go – WD 2go and WD 2go Pro. The apps are available from both Apple’s App Store and the Android Market and interface with WD’s My Book Live external hard drive. Content on the drive may also be accessed through the browser through WD2go.com.

Corsair has released USB 3.0 versions of their Flash Voyager GT, Flash Voyager, and Flash Survivor USB flash drives. The updates are highlighted by the flagship Voyager GT which has a rugged all-rubber housing, comes in 32GB and 64GB capacities and offers read speeds of 135 MB/sec and writes of 83 MB/sec.

Tokyo-based parts company Ask Corporation has announced it will release a pair of mSATA SSDs made by OCZ in mid-September. Measuring a mere 30mm wide and 50mm deep, the Nocti and Strata series are both built around 20nm MLC NAND flash memory. Both series support the current mSATA maximum bandwidth of 3 GB/s.

ADATA has expanded their 500 Series of SSDs with the S510, which slots in as a mainstream offering alongside their enthusiast class SSD, the S511. The S510 leverages a SATA 6Gb/s interface, SandForce SF-2281 processor and 25nm asynchronous NAND to deliver speeds of 550 MB/s read, 510 MB/s write and 4K random write IOPS of