OWC has followed the path of other SandForce licensees and added a 40GB boot drive capacity to their Mercury Extreme Pro SSD line.  The drive features 285MB/s peak read speeds and 270MB/s writes.   

In this news roundup G.Skill has added three capacities to their SandForce powered Phoenix Pro SSD line, IcyDock has a new USB 3.0 2.5" drive enclosure that’s tool-less, Samsung has added USB 3.0 to their external drives and Sans Digital has a great-looking 8-bay RAID unit.

SanDisk has introduced what they’re calling the world’s smallest 64GB SSD, an embedded SSD solution called the integrated SSD, or iSSD. Designed as an on-board storage solution for the burgeoning ultra-thin computing market, the iSSD is smaller than a stamp and weighs less than a gram.

Intel and Micron have announced the delivery of 3-bit-per-cell (3bpc) NAND flash built on 25nm process technology. Samples are going out and full line production is expected this year.

Intel’s SSD roadmap through Q1 of 2011 has been leaked and it includes everything Intel SSD fans have been hoping for, and more. The X25-M G3 is confirmed through this document to come in 160GB, 300GB and 600GB capacities, with their new 25nm MLC NAND flash due out Q4 this year. The rest of the

In this storage news roundup we cover Toshiba’s new Wipe technology, that kills a drive’s data when powered off, Icy Dock’s new 4-bay drive enclosure and Verbatim using leather to wrap their external hard drives. 

Solid state drives (SSDs) are becoming more common place now in desktop and mobile computers. The advantages of these drives are obvious the first time they are used. They are much faster and give a user a much better experience accessing data on their computers. When people upgrade their own hardware and include an SSD

Samsung has announced the F4EG their latest generation EcoGreen hard drive. 2TB drive features three platters (667GB each) with 19% better standby time performance and 23% lower power consumption in standby mode than the previous F3EG (Samsung F3EG Review). 

Start-up company Infinitec has announced the IUM, a USB device that acts as an ad-hoc stemming device allowing computers to send content back and forth to one another.