When Plextor announced their first SSDs in late January, two things were missing, a ship data and pricing. Plextor has solved both those issues – the 64GB PX-64M1S and 128GB PX-128M1S are available now for $225 and $400 respectively. The SSDs feature Marvell controllers, SATA II interface and mainstream SSD performance levels.
A-DATA has just announced its USB 3.0 product lineup at the CeBIT 2010 tradeshow. Two storage products and an SSD were introduced: the NH01 external hard drive, the N002 combo flash drive, and the S599 SSD with SandForce processors.
Consumers with no budgetary concerns can now buy what many regard as the fastest production SSD available. The C300 comes in 256GB and 128GB capacities and are available now for $799 and $499 respectively. The SSDs feature a SATA 6Gb/s interface and up to 355MB/s read speeds.
We’ve talked a bit about the different ways you can secure a single drive and a single set of data (here and here), but encryption is really only half the battle. While encryption methods are certainly good for making sure undesirables never get access to your goodies, it’s not as effective against, say, power surges, general hardware
SanDisk has begun shipping its G3 Solid State Drives in North America and Europe. The G3 comes in 60GB and 120GB capacities for a suggested $229.99 and $399.99 respectively. In terms of performance the G3 features 220 Mb/s read and 120 Mb/s write times.
CompactFlash storage is rarely seen outside the confines of the DSLR world, but in high-end photography the format still reigns supreme. The current CF cards have their limitations though, many of which will get resolved with the 5.0 spec. The biggest change is the move to 48-bit addressing which not only allows for much larger
Sandisk has started shipping their 64GB Ultra SDXC card (SDSDRH-064G-A11). The card marks Samsung’s highest capacity SD card to date and features 15MB/sec read speed. The best part though is the price, $349.99 retail, making it the most affordable high capacity SD card on the market.
Seagate has announced it has started shipping its industry-first 2TB Enterprise SAS hard drives with a 6Gb/s interface (ST32000444SS). The 3.5-inch Constellation ES is a fourth-generation drive available in 500GB/1TB/2TB capacities with 3 or 6Gb/s interfaces.
Corsair has introduced its latest portable flash drive, the Padlock 2. It features built-in 256-bit hardware encryption and a physical PIN keypad integrated into the device.
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.
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