The US memory and SSD maker Mushkin has announced a very spacious 960 GB SSD model that belongs to the company’s Chronos deluxe line. Apart from speed the new SSD offers space, which is crucial to most computer users, but the combination between speed and space makes it very suitable for people who work with large files. As usual the new SSD drive comes in the common 2.5-inch for...
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Intel to announce Series 530 SSDs in Q2 2013
4 January 2013 | SSD
A new Intel SSD line has found its way to the Internet way ahead of launch thanks to the efforts of sources close to the company. According to the leaked information the tech company will release the Series 530 SSD line in Q2 2013. It will be represented by two models with capacities of 80 GB and 180 GB and will make use of 20 nm NAND flash memory and the LSI SandForc...
Intel to release updated version of 335 Series SSDs
2 January 2013 | SSD
Intel released its 335 Series SSDs a few months ago but the US tech giant is ready for an update. The new updated 335 Series SSD line will include a picture of a CPU core drawn on top of the SSD chassis and two new SSDs with capacities of 80 GB and 180 GB. The updated line will be based on 20 nm MLC NAND flash memory and the SandForce SF-2281 controller and they all support SATA 3....
GeIL offers Zenith S3 solid state drives
20 December 2012 | SSD
Famous memory maker GeIL has announced the release of a new breed of company-created solid state drives – the 2.5-inch Zenith S3. The Zenith S3 line currently consists of three models with 60 GB, 120 GB and 240 GB of capacity. All of them support SATA 3.0 interface and are based on 25 nm MLC NAND flash memory that gives them performance that reaches 70 000 IOPS (input output...
Scientists increase flash memory life cycle
3 December 2012 | SSD
The most significant problem with current MLC NAND flash memory is its life – due to some internal changes in the memory cells MLC NAND allows a limited several thousand write-erase number of cycles before the memory goes bad. Thanks to a new discovery by people working for Macronix, MLC NAND flash can now survive up to 100 million write-erase cycles. The magic, which makes a...
AMD plans to release own brand SSDs
29 November 2012 | SSD
AMD has long been known for making PC processors and graphics chips but after releasing own brand memory a while ago the US chip maker now plans to release AMD branded solid-state drives. Unfortunately there is no information whatsoever on the upcoming AMD SSDs but according to rumors this will surely be the company’s next product. An important detail is that AMD won’t prod...
OCZ announces new SSDs by the name of Vector
28 November 2012 | SSD
OCZ has announced a new line of solid-state drives that will be known as Vector. The new devices are all based on Indilinx’s Barefoot 3 controller and support the SATA 3.0 interface for blazing fast data access speeds. The OCZ vector SSD drives also offer a form factor of 2.5 inches, just 7 mm of thickness and MLC NAND flash memory – for a total of three capacities – 128 GB, ...
Memoright presents long-life SSD drives
21 November 2012 | SSD
Memoright isn’t the most popular brand name when it comes to SSD drives but the Taiwanese company has managed to release a new line of SSDs dubbed QuadLife that promise four times longer lifespan than regular SSDs. Designed to serve in cloud computing systems, servers and powerful computers the QuadLife line comes in a 1.8-inch form factor that offers 220 GB of storage and in the...
Kingston ships new generation SSDNow drives
14 November 2012 | SSD
Kingston has officially announced it has started shipping its next generation of most cost-effective SSDNow V Series solid-state drives. The new Kingston SSDNow V300 drives are a powerful upgrade solution for cost-conscious customers and offer ten times the speed of a conventional 7200-rpm hard drive. They are powered by an LSI SandForce Flash Storage Processor (FSP), cus...
Intel plans to release DC S3700 SSDs in Q1 2013
6 November 2012 | SSD
Chipmaker Intel has disclosed it plans to release the upcoming DC S3700 SSD line in Q1 2013. The new solid-state drives will replace the Intel 710 Series SSD line. Being high-end corporate class SSDs they will be used in database centers where high performance is a must. The DC S3700 line will be based on MLC NAND flash memory and will use Intel’s ...
Intel ships 335 Series SSDs
31 October 2012 | SSD
Chip giant Intel has announced it is currently shipping its new 335 Series SSDs – the first SSDs based on 20 nm NAND flash memory. The new SSD series fully supports SATA 3.0 and comes with 240 GB of capacity. The SSDs reach 500 MB/sec of sequential read speed and 450 MB/sec of sequential write speed. “The Intel SSD 335 uses Hi-K/metal gate planar cell technology, which ...
