The famous memory and SSD maker Corsair has prepared a new line of SSD drives that will soon enter the market – the Neutron GTX. The new company product is based on 19 nm Toshiba Toggle-NAND flash memory and is housed in a chassis that is just 7 mm thick. As expected the Corsair Neutron GTX will be available in the widely seen 2.5-inch form factor and will offer capacities ...
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Intel to release new SSDs this spring
26 March 2013 | SSD
Apart from working on the upcoming Haswell processors Intel is also busy designing new solid-state drives. The latest information in this regard suggests the company will update its SSD line with new models starting this spring. In May 2013 Intel will launch the DC P2950 SSD line, which will serve data centers, and will be based on 25 nm SLC NAND flash memory. This product li...
Plextor exhibits very fast small form factor SSD
13 March 2013 | SSD
The Japanese high-tech company Plextor, known for making optical disc recorders and solid state drives, has announced a small form factor SSD line that reaches 700 MB/sec of read speed. The line consists of two models with capacities of 128 GB and 256 GB and they both belong to Intel’s next-generation form-factor that the chipmaker proposes for ultrabooks and other thin dev...
Plextor demonstrates TLC NAND flash SSD drives
11 March 2013 | SSD
Plextor has had a rather interesting product at the just finished CeBIT 2013 in Germany – a new SSD line that uses TLC NAND flash memory. The new memory is built on 19 nm process and is featured in the still nameless Plextor line of TLC NAND SSDs. There’s a total of three models – with capacities of 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB. Coming in the usual 2.5-inch form factor the...
Patriot quits consumer SSD market
8 March 2013 | SSD
US memory and SSD maker Patriot has announced it will exit the consumer SSD market. The announcement was made an the on-going CeBIT 2013 exhibition in Germany with the company saying it will keep on making and selling SSDs to corporate customers only. Fans of the brand can still find Patriot SSDs on the market until all already released retail SSDs get exhausted. Sadly enough...
Seagate launches first desktop SSHD line, new laptop SSHDs
6 March 2013 | PC, SSD
Just days after announcing it would cease making 7200 rpm laptop hard drives and focus on solid-state hybrid drives (SSHD), manufacturer Seagate has announced its first desktop SSHD line and more laptop SSHD models to complement the existing lineup. All in all the company has launched four models with two of them belonging to the new Seagate Desktop SSHD line (called as simpl...
Apacer releases PATA SSD line
27 February 2013 | SSD
The technically obsolete PATA connection interface has been long superseded by SATA but there still are millions of systems that rely on PATA storage devices. Given the existence of PATA systems, the low number of new such devices on the market and the rise of SSDs Apacer has taken measures to relieve the situation by releasing a new line of PATA SSDs. The line consists of tw...
Intel releases 180 GB SSD that belongs to Series 335
4 February 2013 | SSD
Intel’s budget-oriented Series 335 SSD line was first launched back in October of 2012 but unfortunately customers looking for a cheaper SSD had no choice but purchase the only model that featured a capacity of 240 GB. Now things have changed – Intel has unveiled a new Series 335 SSD this time with 180 GB of storage space. Unfortunately, again, the promised 80 GB model is missing so pe...
Micron comes up with P400m SSD series
23 January 2013 | SSD
Just a week after the launch of the Crucial M500 SSD series the US company Micron has prepared the P400m SSD line. The P400m SSDs have been designed for use in servers and databases and this is the reason why they come with enhanced durability. These drives can withstand 5 years of everyday usage that reaches 10 times the capacity of the drive. Available in 100 GB, 200 GB and 400 GB mo...
Micron takes wraps off Crucial M500 SSD series
17 January 2013 | SSD
US memory and SSD maker Micron has announced a new SSD line – the Crucial M500. The line will consist of four different models with capacities of 120 GB, 240 GB, 480 GB and 960 GB. As usual the Crucial M500 comes in a 2.5-inch form factor and is based on the Marvell 88SS9187-BLD2 controller and 20 nm NAND flash memory. All drives will be 7 mm thick but the 120/240/480 GB models will ...
Foremay unveils world’s first 2 TB SSD drives
16 January 2013 | SSD
The US maker of specialized SSDs Foremay has announced the world’s first solid-state drives with capacities of 2 TB. The new drives come in the usual 2.5-inch form factor and fully support the fastest SATA 3.0 interface. The new 2 TB drives belong to different product families though - one model belongs to the SC199 product family for mission-critical applications and another to ...
