...om its competition is that the company has dropped hard drive options entirely and sells the Mini 9 with flash -based solid state disk drives with 4 GB, 8 GB and 16 GB capacities. More storage space is...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:17
...o not expect Apple to upgrade the player this time. Conceivably, Apple could kill the Classic as soon as flash capacity becomes competitive, which not be the case yet. But we expect this player to be ...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 16:04
Sluggish NAND flash demand and demand from OEM customers has prompted chipmakers to extend their presences beyond chip production. Among major NAND flash makers, Intel, Micron Technology and Sam
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 09:15
...Classic may be heading into retirement as the form factor gets a bit old, the weight is out of place and flash capacities could soon be competing with this 80-160 GB iPod. 1.8” hard drives are under a...
Monday, August 25, 2008 12:30
...bsp; At the Intel
Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel engineers touted the speed of
their upcoming flash drives saying that they can keep up with the
bandwidth demands of modern CPUs. The...
Friday, August 22, 2008 16:45
...launch. Acer dropped the price of its Aspire One by $50 from $379 to $329 for the Linux version with a flash drive and from $399 to $349 for the entry-level Windows XP model with a 120 GB hard drive...
Friday, August 22, 2008 10:05
...has not been associated with mass
storage products such as hard drives is taking advantage of low NAND
flash prices and increasing storage capacities to move into a new
business segment that promis...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 00:25
While most people would be happy just to own a solid
state drive, BitMicro says it can now make SSDs with an amazing 6.5 TB
of capacity. At the Siggraph trade show held at the Los Angeles
C
Thursday, August 14, 2008 16:25
...ing solid state drive (SSD) controller” built in 90 nm process technology that is currently shown at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara and promises much higher data transfer speeds for SSDs. &nbs...
Thursday, August 14, 2008 13:23
...tion in Los Angeles, Texas
Memory Systems is showing off a massive rack tower with 64 TB of
high-speed flash memory. The rack can perform 800,000 input/output
instructions per second and runs...
Thursday, August 14, 2008 00:20
...randed “Best Buy Express” and carry cellphone and computer accessories, digital cameras and accessories, flash drives and portable storage devices, MP3 players, headphones, speakers, unlocked phones, ...
Monday, August 11, 2008 16:34
Micron announced a new generation of its RealSSD flash disk drives for
server and notebook applications Capacities are now hitting 256 GB, but
the real questions appears to be pricing and not
Tuesday, August 05, 2008 14:31
Kingston Technology tossed a few new USB flash drives out to the masses as it adds to an already way overcrowded computer accessories category. This time around we have its already released DataTrave
Friday, July 25, 2008 09:20
...o deal with the economic
downturn by lowering their cost. The increasing mass storage threat
from NAND flash devices is answered with perpendicular magnetic
recording technology, which enables the ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 00:53
...Samsung and Sun Microsoystems today said that the two companies have
developed a single-level-cell NAND flash memory device for use in solid
state drives that offers "much higher endurance levels th...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 09:48
... several years. Perpendicular magnetic recording appears to have enough room to fend off the advances of flash memory and SSD devices with more storage capacity for the price. Toshiba is now offering ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 14:43
...next in line to roll out a compact notebook with a sub-$400
price: The Aspire One can be purchased with flash -based or hard
drive-based storage, Linux or Windows and 512 MB or 1 GB or main memory. S...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 00:01
...hard drive, WD’s 3.5” Velociraptor. Samsung claims that the 128 GB SSD, which is built from 64 MLC NAND flash memory chips of 16 Gb each, is energy efficient at 0.2 watts in standby mode and 0.5 watt...
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 00:30
...ers you got there Motorola. Jin then copied everything to her laptop, portable hard drives and USB flash sticks and headed to O’Hare airport with a one-way ticket to Beijing. Jin was caught aft...
Friday, June 27, 2008 14:03
Sandisk has introduced a line of flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSDs) that are designed for ultra low-cost PCs. The SSD is expected to be available in August.
More here at Digitimes.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 09:15
You never know what you’ll find at the Computex tradeshow in Taipei and we spied a portable flash media copier for both cops and wannabe James Bond agents alike. EZPNP’s EZDigiMagic looks lik
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 09:04
Everyone is waiting for Intel’s quad-core, eight-thread Nehalem processor later this year and we got a little sneak peak at the processor’s stability and speed at a closed door meeting with Intel e
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 04:56
Intel has begun offering NAND flash -based solid state disk drives
(SSDs) for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and entry-level desktop and
notebook computers, referred to as Nettops and netbooks
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 02:00
...ming that 512 GB drives will be available with current technologies. At least from a capacity view, NAND flash seems to be surpassing 1.8” hard drives and closing the gap with 2.5” drives . However, ...
Monday, June 02, 2008 15:17
... extremely reliable, integrating a 128-bit AES internal security system encrypts data for storage in the flash memory without reducing data transmission speeds within the SSD controller as well as the...
Friday, May 30, 2008 11:35
Despite continuing pricing pressure in the global flash industry,
manufacturers are pushing hard to drive the technology further along:
Intel and Micron are first to announce 34 nm NAND flash
Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:37
...e disabling the display simply by using the Safe Remove Hardware option - the same way you work with USB flash drives and other USB hardware. We have noticed that 720p HD video ran in our environment...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:56
Seoul (South Korea) – South Korea-based Mtron has announced the fastest solid state drives in existence. The Pro 7500 drives use a SATA II interface and can read at an amazing 130 megabytes per
Friday, May 16, 2008 08:08
...t SSDs are planned to be installed as replacements for regular hard
drives in servers, using Intel NAND flash and and Marvell
controllers. Read more at Digitimes.
...
Monday, May 12, 2008 08:09
...enthusiasts for enthusiasts. Luxury is … sleep. I wish I had invented … MLC NAND flash . My tombstone should read … Veni, Vidi, Vici or a close second would be Bigger, ...
Monday, May 12, 2008 00:01
...e-named Racetrack, which is an electronic memory solution claimed to combine the best attributes of both flash -based and traditional hard disk drives (HDDs).
More here at Digitimes. ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 08:33
...this price-capacity ratio will
change if Saito’s predictions are on target. He forecasts that the NAND
flash memory market will expand 133 percent on average every year from
2006 through 2010 Read ...
Friday, April 25, 2008 15:06
...fully functional network storage devices. Compared to current MAIDs (Massive Arrays of Idle Disks), NAND flash memory (described as on-volatile random access memory - NVRAM) within the project has bee...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 17:56
The NAND flash market is receiving a major boost from PC vendors that are expected to adopt flash memory for their low-cost notebooks, according to industry sources. First-tier vendors such as D
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 09:12
...of DDR-II RAM is now standard with the Eee PC 900. Both Windows and Linux versions will be sold and the flash drives will be configured differently for each operating system. Windows computers ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 09:51
Don’t you just love it when tech companies bash heads? Flash drive
maker STEC isn’t taking Seagate’s patent lawsuit lying down and the
company’s Chairman and CEO vows a lengthy court ba
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 07:11
... be limited to a perhaps a slightly updated casing as well as more memory in the touch, especially since flash memory is dirt cheap these days. What it means: The touch is already a pretty fancy and f...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 22:57
... nanos are on the way. First, the memory industry always has complained that Apple isn’t upgrading their flash memory iPods fast enough. The nano is still stuck at 8 GB and should have been converted ...
Monday, April 14, 2008 17:10
...p; IBM today pitched a completely new storage technology that could
replace traditional hard drives and flash -based solid state disk drives
(SSDs). IBM believes that spintronics-based storage device...
Thursday, April 10, 2008 15:36
...roduct offerings in India. The company said its expansion plans reflect the country's growing demand for flash memory cards used in mobile phones, digital cameras, and digital music players, as well a...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 09:18
With all the expensive products we see and
review, it’s pretty refreshing to play with something that doesn’t
suck. We recently bought the Thermaltake BlacX hard drive dock for a
measl
Thursday, March 13, 2008 16:28
Santa Clara (CA) – Computerworld is reporting that Intel will unveil new solid-state drives with capacities of up to 160 GB. The 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch drives will be available in the second qua
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:32
...can fire at a sustained 24 to 60 fps. Video is recorded onto a hard-drive pack, high-speed Compact Flash cards or a solid state drive pack. Since the RED records such an insane amount of d...
Monday, March 10, 2008 17:57
Flash -based solid state drives (SSDs) are far from being mainstream,
but the segment is certainly gaining speed with at more and more
manufacturers joining the race to cash in on the high pro
Monday, March 10, 2008 12:23
Video editors and ray-tracers will probably salivate at the
quad-core laptop we saw yesterday at the HD Expo in Beverly Hills.
Made by 1 Beyond, the GoFlex317 HD uses a desktop Intel Q6600 qu
Friday, March 07, 2008 16:40
...capacity are being worked on by companies like Samsung who have become very aggressive in high capacity flash and micro drives , and both AMD/ATI and Nvidia are creating advanced small form factor gra...
Friday, March 07, 2008 08:51
...d SanDisk recently reached a license agreement in January for PNY to sell licensed USB drives and CompactFlash (CF) cards.
More here at Digitimes. ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 07:59
...p; But it isn’t inexpensive and the high price isn’t because Lenovo is greedy, it is because the darned flash drive that both the Apple Air and the X300 are designed around is very expensive. Having ...
Friday, February 22, 2008 11:26
Here at TG Daily we really
don’t play many games (although Humphrey Cheung was addicted to World
of Warcraft for 2 ˝ years), but we do render a lot of video. So just
how good is an eight-cor
Friday, February 22, 2008 09:26
...w attention, leading controller IC designer InComm believes meaningful penetration still depends on NAND flash performance and cost, according to company general manager LH Luo, who stressed the vital...
Friday, February 22, 2008 08:03