OCZ has released their fastest SSD to date, the Vertex Limited Edition. The Vertex LE comes in 100GB and 200GB capacities with MLC NAND and promises transfer rates of 270MB/s read and 250MB/s write speeds. The SSD also reaches 15,000 IOPS in the 4K random write test.  

Kingston has released what they’re calling the largest USB flash drive in the United States, the 256GB DataTraveler 310. Kingston previously offered the now discontinued DataTraveler 300, which is a 256GB flash drive available outside the US.

Toshiba has announced the MBF series of enterprise hard drives. The 2.5" drives come in a top capacity of 600GB. The drives are also the first to incorporate Toshiba’s enterprise-class self encrypting drive (SED) offering, which encrypts data within the storage device.

Active Media Products today launched its new Aviator-2 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external 2.5-inch enclosure. It is available as an enclosure only or with an optional 64GB or 128GB Predator X7 SSD installed.

Kingston today announced it has started shipping its newest 16GB Class 10 microSDHC cards. Class 10 cards have a minimum data transfer rate of 10MB/s.

Super Talent has announced the latest addition to its flash memory storage lineup, the USB 3.0 Express Drive. The device is available in 16GB and 32GB capacities and is backwards compatible with USB 2.0.

LaCie today announced the latest addition to its external hard drive lineup, the Rugged eSATA. The device can be bus powered when connected to a USB/eSATA combo port, one of the only products in its class offering such a feature.

Recently I put together a brief article on data security and encryption for removable flash drives. Companies like SanDisk had a major loophole in their security software exposed, bringing up the question of just how reliable software-based encryption is for securing your data as opposed to using more costly hardware-based alternatives like IronKey’s flash drives. That

SSDs are great, but they’re expensive in large capacities and apparently they’re too large as well. A group of scientists from Keio University claim to have found a way to reduce the size of SSDs by at least 90% which makes them cheaper and increases energy efficiency by 70%.