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  • Intel launches $125 'affordable' SSD

    Users keep their existing HDD as a means of higher-capacity data storage. For less than $100, you get a hard disk drive with a terabyte of capacity," Yang said.According to Gregory Wong, a flash memory analyst at Forward Insights, pricing for…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Ssd • Solidstate • Sec • Microsoft Office • Capacities • Boot

  • Toshiba squeezes 160GB onto tiny mobile hard drives

    Toshiba's Storage Device Division today introduced a new line of 1.8-inch hard disk drives (HDD) with up to 160GB capacity aimed at next-generation portable media players, digital video cameras and other consumer electronics products.The new line…
    10 September 2009
    Tags: Consumer • Hard Drive • Portable • Disk Drives • Division • Electronics

  • Hitachi boosts performance of 500GB laptop drive

    Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced a new version of its 7200-rpm, 2.5-inch laptop hard disk drive that, at 500GB, claiming it has more than twice the capacity of its predecessor and is 16 percent faster.The Hitachi Travelstar 7K500…
    02 September 2009
    Tags: Hitachi • Encryption • Watts • Sata • Hdd • Travelstar

  • USB 3.0 will enable RAID performance

    It's a chip for external storage devices that includes several key functions for either HDD or SSD units. USB 2 was good as long as you had 100GB on your hard drive, but now it's just way too slow.By way of comparison, a 25GB high-definition movie…
    25 August 2009
    Tags: Silicon • Definition • Sata • Oems • Raid • Storage Devices

  • Hitachi joins party with 2TB HDD for desktops

    Hitachi has finally joined the party of vendors offering a 2TB hard disk drive (HDD) for desktops, but has warned that an equivalent for laptops may still be some way off. Hitachi has finally joined the party of vendors offering a 2TB hard disk…
    06 August 2009
    Tags: Laptops • Hitachi • Hard Drives • Joined • Hard Disk • Western

  • OCZ readies monster 1TB SSD drive

    For $300, you'll be able to get a 120GB version, $650 will get you a 250GB model, and $1200 will get the 500GB model, the company says.OCZ also launched in April a similar 1TB SSD drive offering, but in a smaller form factor (with better writing…
    04 August 2009
    Tags: Inch • Maker • Confirmed • Solid State • Slots • Ssd

Latest Features

  • How to buy a new PC: The specs

    Some PC makers offering an SSD in tandem with a hard disk drive, a low capacity SSD to store applications and the OS, and a high-capacity HDD for data storage duties.NetworkingThe days of dial up are done.
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Vary • Shopping • Shape • Opt • Hard Drives • Clock

  • Flash storage fixes data centre bottlenecks, for a price

    The ratio between SSD and HDD pricing is about 20:1 for the bottom end of both technologies, and this will stay in effect for the next several years," Handy says.Gartner analyst Joe Unsworth puts the average cost of SSDs at about 10 times that of…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Tier • Struggling • Storing • Hard Drives • Data Center • Accessed

  • EMC has changed enterprise disk storage for ever

    That looks set to become the HDD industry sweet spot and that's where the key metric is going to be capacity/$. The core HDD market looks likely to be bulk online data storage; tier 2 with serial ATA (SATA) and, possibly, SAS drives.
    14 January 2008
    Tags: Cache • Inch • Siemens • Cell • Toshiba • Solid State

  • Hitachi GST's Christmas present

    Hitachi may be negotiating to sell up to 50 percent of its hard disk drive (HDD) subsidiary to Silver Lake Partners, a private equity fund, according to a report in the Nikkei business daily.The report said Silver Lake had been granted priority…
    21 December 2007
    Tags: Flash Memory • Inch • Manufacturing • Sale • Recording • Losses

  • The case for solid-state drives in the data centre

    Hard disk drives (HDD) are much less expensive and hold much more information. Meanwhile, Hitachi America Ltd.makes a 1TB HDD that's energy efficient and priced at $399 for mass deployment in servers.Enterprise Strategy Group Inc.analyst Mark D.
    04 December 2007
    Tags: Peak • Solid State • Suited • Pacific • Latency • Debate

  • SSD disruptive technology in the datacentre

    We might have intelligent controllers to put data appropriately on SSD or HDD.My personal opinion is that the traditional array vendors will do this. In almost all cases the HDD and SSD cost/GB price curves will have crossed.
    02 December 2007
    Tags: Power Consumption • Hard Drive • Hard Drives • Floor • Solid State • Ssd
 

How-Tos

  • How to switch to a flash storage drive

    Normally an SSD reads data at a much quicker rate than an HDD does (Intel claims that a typical HDD takes 4000 microseconds to access your data, versus the advertised 65 ms of the company's 160GB X25-M SSD model, but an SSD's write speeds may be…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Installing • Ata • Boot • Netbook • Netbooks • Operating Systems

  • Case Study: Storing map data for ever

    It's much cheaper to look after a UDO archive than any tape format archive.Any hard drive-based solution has to deal with the basic fact of HDD life; hard drives break. A new system would need to operate openly, integrate into our existing…
    06 October 2006
    Tags: Disaster Recovery • Data Management • Tapes • Lifecycle • Raw • Migrate

  • Case Study: MAID service for Time Warner Cable

    It is delivered to them over the cable network from hard disk storage in TWC's facilities, which, naturally, provides a fast response to the news editors.But HDD space is limited and as fresh news comes in and gets stored on disk the older stories…
    17 November 2004
    Tags: Subscribers • Scheme • Cable • Archive • Reliability • Story

Reviews

  • Kingston SSDNow V-Series 128GB review

    Also, under real-world usage scenarios as the main system drive, our experience on the SSD was far smoother and faster than a normal HDD. The reverse, copying files from this SSD onto our reference hard drive took place at 110.6 MB/s.
    01 February 2010
    Tags: Hard Drive • Controller • Scenarios • Copying • Ssd • Realworld

  • Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB review

    A single HDD with such high densities is also useful for those building themselves a HTPC/NAS box. The Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB is a low-power, two terabyte hard drive, meant to conserve power. Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB review Madana Prathap Low…
    29 January 2010
    Tags: Hard Drives • Seagate • Capacities • Mb • Binary • Platters

  • Dell Precision M6500

    Because of the large amount of data needed in the field by workstation users in the geological and energy industries, the 1TB of HDD will surely be a welcome feature. There is room for two 500GB drives and one 64GB solid-state drive (SSD).
    06 January 2010
    Tags: Adapter • Clock • Weight • Guidelines • Jack • Workstations

  • SSD upgrade kit

    With solid-state disk (SSD) drives becoming more popular for laptops, users may find themselves in the position of upgrading the hard disk drive (HDD) in an older machine to get the reliability and speed that comes with flash memory technology.
    09 September 2009
    Tags: Flash Memory • Sec • Cable • Boot • Drivers • Purchasing

  • Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B review

    We measured a read speed average of 65.5Mbps, and write speed average of 58Mbps, and never went below a minimum of 35Mbps.These numbers put this HDD about 6Mbps faster than the average. Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B review Madana Prathap review…
    13 July 2009
    Tags: Hard Drive • Hitachi • Desktops • Consume • Hdd • Proves

  • OQO 02 review

    You now get a full gigabyte of RAM and a 60GB hard drive in the form of the iPod-powering 1.8in Samsung HDD.This diminutive but expensive hard drive keeps the weight down to a trim 500g, but pushes up the OQO 02's price to a fairly mind-boggling…
    09 April 2009
    Tags: Models • Hard Drive • Edition • Windows Xp • Mini • Samsung

White Papers

  • NAND Flash parallel transfer fault-tolerant solid state disks

    The cost of a pSSD will be much greater than the cost of a conventional hard drive initially, but the performance will be 100 to 1,000 times greater, it will only take a fraction of the power that an HDD consumes, it will be much more reliable and…
    09 March 2007
    Tags: Solid State • Disks • Error • Flash • Tolerant • Solves

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