The Japanese corporation TDK has announced a new line of 2.5-inch form factor SSDs – the SDG4A. The new SSD line is suitable for industrial applications and provides ultimate reliability in extreme conditions. The new SSD line will shortly be available in three capacities – of 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB but a more spacious 512 GB model will follow a bit later. A peculiarity...
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Seagate unveils new SSDs
8 May 2013 | SSD
US storage drive manufacturer Seagate has unveiled a bunch of new SSDs that come in four versions – Seagate 600 SSD, Seagate 600 Pro SSD, Seagate 1200 SSD and Seagate X8 Accelerator SSD. The new solid state drives cover a large portion of the SSD market with some models targeting home users while others aiming at the corporate market segment. All of them, however, offer the latest Seagate te...
Intel adds 80 GB model to 335 Series SSDs
25 April 2013 | SSD
Intel has announced the addition of an 80 GB model to its 335 Series of SSDs. The new model is the least spacious of all but will be the cheapest too. The chip giant released 180/240 GB models of the same SSD line earlier this year. The 80 GB model is based on the same 20 nm MLC NAND Flash memory used in the more spacious models. As to speed the SSDs reach sequential read spe...
Silicon Power adds Velox V50 SSDs to product line
11 April 2013 | SSD
Silicon Power has released a new SSD series known as Velox V50 just days after the launch of the Velox V55 and Slim S55 SSD lines. The new product line comes with a brand new memory controller and four different capacities to suit every taste and price point. The Velox V50 SSDs are available in the usual 2.5-inch form factor and sport MLC NAND flash memory as well as the late...
OCZ prepares Vertex 5 solid-state drives
11 April 2013 | SSD
Prompted by stiff competition on the SSD market OCZ Technology Group reportedly works on the next generation of Vertex SSDs that will offer great performance at a relatively affordable price point. The upcoming Vertex 5 solid-state drives will be based on the Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller and will sport 20 nm MLC NAND flash memory. Hardware specs are stil...
HGST starts sales of new UltraStar solid-state drives
10 April 2013 | SSD
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), a company that now belongs to Western Digital, has released a new family of very fast corporate UltraStar SSDs. The new family consists of the following models – UltraStar SSD800MH, SSD800MM and SSD1000MR. All models are based on 25 nm MLC NAND flash memory, come in 2.5-inch form factor and support Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) inter...
Micron launches M500 SSD family with impressive capacity
9 April 2013 | SSD
Micron Technology has officially released the Crucial M500 family of solid-state drives that offers impressive speed and massive storage capacity. The M500 family has four SSD members – 120 GB, 240 GB, 480 GB and 960 GB models, which means that if you have the cash you can grab a M500 SSD that combines the capacity of a mechanical hard drive with the speed of a SSD. ...
ADATA starts sales of SX1000L corporate SSDs
3 April 2013 | SSD
ADATA has released a new generation of solid-state drives designed for use in servers and corporate environments. The new 2.5-inch SX1000L solid-state drive line is based on 25 nm NAND flash memory and SandForce SF-2281 controllers and measure 100 x 70 x 7 mm for a total weight of 61 grams. The new corporate SX1000L line will have just two models – with 100 GB and 200 GB of...
Silicon Power unveils two new SSD lines
2 April 2013 | SSD
SSD maker Silicon Power has added two new SSD series to its product list - the 2.5-inch Velox V55 and Slim S55. The Velox V55 line targets desktop computers and comes in an aluminum chassis, which measures 100 x 70 x 9 mm and weighs 79 grams. As expected the new SSD line fully supports the SATA 3.0 revision that allows for data transfer speeds of up to 6 Gbit/sec. Available i...
ADATA announces thinner and lighter SSD drives
29 March 2013 | SSD
ADATA has announced a number of new SSD drives that are just 7 mm thick (down from the usual 9.5 mm) and hence feature lower weight when compared to traditional solid-state drives. The change affects XPG SX910, XPG SX900, Premier Pro SP900, Premier Pro SP600, Premier Pro S511 and Premier Pro S510 solid-state drives that support the SATA 3.0 interface and Premier SP800, Premie...
Innodisk prolongs life of MLC NAND flash memory
29 March 2013 | SSD
The Taiwanese company Innodisk, a manufacturer of industrial embedded flash and DRAM storage products and technologies, has announced the successful development of a new technology that significantly increases the life of MLC NAND flash memory, taking it to the levels of SLC NAND flash. To achieve this the new iSLC technology makes use of newly patented flash management algor...
