The Chinese company KingFast, specializing in solid-state drives, has unveiled a SSD with a total capacity of 1 TB. The drive looks like any other SSD and carries the C-Drive product name. The C-Drive arrives in the usual 2.5-inch form factor being 9.5 mm thick and packs two 512 GB SSD subunits in RAID 0 for total capacity of 1024 GB. The drive supports all modern technologie...
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ADATA announces XPG SX920 solid-state drives
7 June 2013 | SSD
ADATA – the Taiwanese maker of PC memory and storage drives – has announced a new SSD line under the trade name of XPG SX920. The line consists of three models but they all share certain specs – for example they are all 7 mm thick and come in the usual 2.5-inch form factor, support SATA 3.0 and feature 19 nm MLC NAND flash memory and are based on a Marvell Technology controller. ...
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...
Patriot sells external hard drive with built-in battery
10 April 2013 | Peripherals/Accessories
The US memory and SSD maker Patriot has released a rather interesting external hard drive that gets powered by an integrated battery that allows the user to work with it virtually anywhere. Called AERO the new company product offers extreme portability and flexibility and comes equipped with built-in Wi-Fi 802.11n that can connect it to up to five other external devices such ...
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. ...
Viking Technology unleashes non-volatile RAM memory
4 April 2013 | PC
US memory maker Viking Technology has started the first shipments of a new non-volatile RAM memory designed for use in high-end servers and similar computing devices. The so-called ArxCis-NV memory combines SSD and DDR3 memory features into a single memory module that offers 10 GB/sec of bandwidth and 1.5 million input-output operations per second (IOPS). The memory module it...
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...
