Just when you thought SandForce had all the licensees they needed, along comes a yet unannounced deal with Kingston. We found out tonight that Kingston will be using a SandForce processor, though it’s not thought to be the SF-1200, in a line of SSDs most likely due mid-year. The Kingston HyperX SSD family as it
Eurocom has announced its Panther 2.0 notebook featuring up to 3.25TB of storage via four internal drive bays. The company offers mechanical HDDs, hybrid HDDs, and SSDs as upgrade options in this 11.66 lb machine.
OCZ announced a number of new consumer and enterprise products at CES 2011 in Las Vegas. The products announced include next-gen enterprise class SATA, SAS, Fibre Channel, and PCIe SSDs plus the Vertex 3 Pro consumer SSD with up to 550MB/s transfer rates.
In a stop by the Toshiba booth today at CES, we were told by a company rep that Toshiba is on its way to releasing a hybrid drive some time this year. While our press contacts aren’t ready to confirm or deny any of this, the rep at the booth did say it’s a 1TB
Buffalo Technology has released the CloudStor two-bay storage unit. While it’s easy to call it a NAS, Buffalo prefers to call the Pogoplug-powered solution a personal cloud storage unit. Talking with Buffalo representatives, they’re most excited about the easy configuration and setup, which is key for a device of this nature. It’s nearly plug and
Victorinox Swiss Army has launched several new series of pocket knives with USB flash drives embedded – the Victorinox Slim, Victorinox Slim Duo and Victorinox Secure SSD. The drives are both stylish and functional; they come in several different color shells which protect the drives.
We’re live from the Corsair press event at CES and Corsair has dropped a bit of a bomb. While they’re not abandoning SandForce processors, they are expanding their SSD options with the Marvell 9174 SATA 6Gb/s processor.
Other World Computing (OWC) announced several new series of Solid State Drives (SSDs), including drives for the 2010 and 2008-09 Apple MacBook Air notebooks up to 480GB, a world-first 1.8-inch SandForce-based SSD, and 2.5" and 3.5" IDE/ATA interface SSDs.
Seagate has introduced a version of its external GoFlex hard drive series for Mac. The new models include both 2.5-inch portable and 3.5-inch desktop versions. Seagate introduced the GoFlex storage system in May of 2010.
The trend in computing generally seems to gravitate toward "smaller is better." That’s certainly true when it comes to client-side computing and the related storage devices. Hard drives are coming out in single-platter 7mm height and SSDs are seeing more adoption of form factors in sizes other than 2.5". Intel’s new 310 SSD is a good case
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