ssd news

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today announced that it has begun shipping its SanDisk® G3 Solid State Drives (SSD) to retailers in North America and Europe. The flash memory-based SanDisk G3 SSD offers a compelling alternative to a 7,200 RPM Hard Disk Drive (HDD) for many customers – including do-it-yourself enthusiasts, IT managers or anyone seeking increased durability and performance with high reliability.

Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today introduced the Seagate® Pulsar™ drive, the first product in its new enterprise solid state drive (SSD) family. Designed for enterprise blade and general server applications, the Pulsar drive uses single-level cell (SLC) technology, delivers up to 200GB capacity, and is built in a 2.5-inch small form factor with a SATA interface.

New Eee PC™ T91MT Multi-Touch Netbook Uses SanDisk pSSD Drive's Compact Form Factor and Innovative Flash Technology To Help Deliver Enhanced User Experience and Maximum Portability

On the heels of the Microsoft* Windows* 7 introduction, Intel Corporation today announced the availability of the Intel® Solid-State Drive (SSD) Toolbox, with Intel® SSD Optimizer and firmware update, for its 34nm Intel® X25-M Mainstream SATA SSDs.

30GB and 62GB Small Footprint SSD Modules Enable Smaller Form Factor Notebook, Mobile and Embedded Storage Systems

SanDisk pSSD Drives Feature nCache –Large Non Volatile Write Cache Technology To Boost Random Write Performance Five Times Over Steady State Performance

Solid State Combined with New Data Management Tools Improve Performance by up to 800% using DB2 Database Software

New E-Series P2 Cards Feature Lower Price and Higher Transfer Rate

Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC), a world leader in hard drive storage for computing and consumer electronics applications, today announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc., Aliso Viejo, Calif., a leading supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded systems market.

Fusion-io, the leader in solid-state architecture and high-performance I/O solutions, today announced the ioDrive Duo, which doubles the slot capacity of Fusion-io’s successful PCI Express-based ioDrive storage solution.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers offers companies an easy entry into flash-memory technology in the professional storage environment. Now users can take advantage of the latest, highly reliable SSD (Solid State Drive) technology for FibreCAT CX4 storage systems at an attractive price. In addition, the package includes several white papers on a variety of application scenarios.

SSD Technology Leader and Memory Manufacturer to Deliver High-Performance SATA SSDs to Fortune 1000 and Vertical Markets

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced today at the Storage Visions 2009 Conference here that it has developed a 100 gigabyte (GB) solid state drive for use in servers for applications such as video on demand, streaming media content delivery, internet data centers, virtualization and on-line transaction processing.

New SSD Family Achieves High Levels of Performance, Endurance, Capacity and Reliability to Meet Market Requirements for Notebook Computers, Gaming and Home Entertainment Systems

SanDisk Also Proposes Two Metrics for End-Users to Measure Performance and Endurance: virtualRPM (vRPM) and Long-Term Data Endurance (LDE)

New Drives Break Performance Barriers, Lower Storage Infrastructure, Cooling, Energy Costs

Toshiba Corporation today announced enhancements to its line-up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the addition of an industry-leading 256-gigabyte (GB) SSD and the launch of a series of small-sized Flash Modules for netbook computers ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs) and other mobile and peripheral applications.

Lenovo today announced the ThinkPad X301 notebook PC, taking the thinnest and lightest full-function notebook in its class¹, to new heights in performance.

Amid the buzz of reaching a new milestone of 1 million Eee PCs sold in just 5 months after its launch, ASUS has provided yet another round of excitement with its release of the new Eee PC 900.

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced that Motion Computing®, a leading manufacturer of tablet personal computers, has selected SanDisk's 32-gigabyte (GB) 1 solid state drive (SSD) for its new F5 mobile slate tablet PC.