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Samsung Shoots 12.5mm MT2 With Shrink-Ray, Makes Thinner 9.5mm 1TB SpinPoint M8

Samsung announced their new 9.5mm tall 1TB SpinPoint M8, using their two of their new 500GB platters. This drive will mark the first 1TB notebook drive in the more common 9.5mm drive height versus the larger 12.5mm size commonly used for the largest capacity 2.5-inch hard drives. Up until this release, the largest 2.5-inch drive

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Corsair Issues Force Series 3 SSD Recall

The Corsair Force Series 3 SSDs were announced just a few weeks ago – boasting SandForce SF-2281 controllers and a very aggressive price point. Just days after the first units started shipping, Corsair has issued a recall of the 120GB Force Series 3 SSDs. According to Corsair, the 120GB model is seeing, “a significant percentage

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Mushkin Chronos SSD Family Joins the SandForce SF-2200 Party

Mushkin announced their latest SandForce SF-2281-powered SSD called the Chronos and Chronos Deluxe. Aimed at both the enthusiast and value-oriented enthusiast markets, Mushkin differentiates each model with the type of NAND flash included. The higher performance Chronos Deluxe model will use faster synchronous NAND, while the budget-friendly Chronos will use asynchronous NAND. At its peak,

Consumer

OWC Offers First Five-Year Warranty On Consumer SATA 6Gb/s Drive

OWC has announced that they will be increasing the warranty on their SATA 6GB/s Mercury Extreme Pro 6G to five years. This applies retroactively to buyers who already purchased their 6G SSD. This warranty extension is only the second consumer SSD to get a full five years, with Intel offering it first on the SATA

Consumer

Micron Makes The RealSSD P320h PCIe SSD Official

Today Micron finally made their PCIe-based SSD official, releasing a 350GB and 700GB version targeted at enterprise markets. The Micron SLC-based P320h will be capable of 750,000 random 4K IOPS read and 341,000 IOPS write, with up to 3GB/s sequential transfer speeds.

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Kingston HyperX SSD With User-Adjustable Over-Provisioning Announced

At CES in January, we broke the news that Kingston and SandForce had paired up on an SSD to be released mid-year. Well, it’s mid-year and Kingston has formally announced the HyperX SSD at Computex. The Kingston HyperX SSD features a SATA 6Gb/s interface and SandForce SF-2200 processor, with special firmware giving users the ability

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OCZ Vertex 3 Gets New Form Factors

OCZ is using Computex to profile their entire family of SSDs and related products – especially the popular Vertex 3 line. The consumer Vertex 3 has been updated to include 1.8″ and 3.5″ form factors. Like the mainsteam 2.5″ version, both feature SATA 6Gb/s and a SandForce SF-2281 processor.