Hitachi has announced the latest additions to its Travelstar line of drives for notebook computers, the 5K750 and 7K750 series. The 2.5" drives are available with capacities up to 750GB in a standard 9mm form factor.

Kingston announced the release of its CompactFlash Ultimate 600x memory card; Toshiba introduced its Convio 3.0 line of USB 3.0 portable hard drives; Patriot introduced its 4×4 Convio 5.25" bay adapter for hard drives.

OCZ has announced the Onyx 2 Series, a 2.5" mainstream SSD that "delivers excellent performance with lower price per gigabyte than that of other comparable drives on the market." We’ll take OCZ’s word for it, as they didn’t release pricing, but they did release specs that include a SandForce SF-1200 processor which delivers maximum 275MB/s reads

Some SSD buyers select a drive solely based on performance, some make their decision based on price and others buy for combinations of these and other factors. But almost all SSD buyers are confused by a single issue that could soon see a tremendous increase of clarity, "How long will my SSD last?"

SandForce announced it has closed $25 million in series D funding; PhotoFast introduced its LSI PCI-e SSD, which is available in up to 960GB capacities and has read speeds up to 1,400MB/s; lastly, Viking Modular Solutions announced its Enterprise-class Element SAS SSD line.

Kingston launched its DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 flash drive which has read speeds up to 80MB/s; LSI announced it is now shipping its 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip device with a dual-core PowerPC processor and specialized hardware acceleration engines; finally, Seagate announced its Momentus Self-Encrypting Drive has been FIPS 140-2 certified.

Super Talent has announced they are now shipping their USB 3.0 Express RAM Cache drive and standard USB 3.0 drives; SanDisk and NDS have combined technologies to produce inexpensive set-top boxes with DVR-like features

Forums member StamatisX has created the following how to guide and analysis of what appears to be a commonly reported problem – SSDs are not reaching their full performance potential in many notebooks and some desktops using the Intel Series 5 chipset. While not a definitive study on the issue, StamatisX does provide a detailed look into

Intel has updated their SSD management software. Version 2.0 features new tools including a System Configuration Tuner and Secure Erase function, which is handy and mitigates the need for a third party application.