This past month’s release of Intel’s Sandy Bridge platform will help build the USB 3.0 user base since this interface comes installed in most motherboards designed for this new CPU. Since USB 3.0 features transfer rates up to 4.8Gbps there…
And here’s some more Verbatim new from CES, they’ve got several announcements inside including new flash drives and SSDs. “Verbatim’s new assortment of flash drives and memory storage products are powerful, big on storage capacity and designed to seamlessly support…
2011 seems to be the year that Solid State Drives (SSD) will move into the mainstream. Manufacturers are dropping the prices of this technology to help integrate them into more user systems. It has been well documented that SSD perform…
Most SSDs are 2.5” in size, they are some 3.5” ones of course, but RunCore has now joined in with their own 3.5” SSDs that are compatible with SATA6 for speeds of more than 500MB/s and a maximum capacity of…
Another Black Friday deal for you. Online Crucial is offering special prices on all of their refurbished solid state drives at $1 per gig. Meaning you can get a 256gig drive for $256, or a 128gb for $128 which isn’t…
The holidays are coming and that means we’re going to be seeing a lot of things going on sale, specials and the infamous Black Friday ads coming out. This just popped into my inbox about Intel lowering prices on their…
The Patriot Torx are Jmicron based SSD drives that come in 32gb and 64gb capacities that are value priced and aimed at regular consumers, too bad the PR doesn’t list any prices. They offer speeds of up to 260MB/s Read…
External storage is a big business, look around and you’ll see all sorts of flash drives and portable hard drives for sale. People use them for everything from backups to transferring files to media uses and they all work well,…
Hmmm… destroy a Kingston SSD and get $3,000… not bad for some destructive fun eh? Kingston today announced the SSD Destructo Challenge. Kingston® wants contestants to submit ideas on how to destroy one of its solid-state drives. The Grand Prize…
As Solid State Drive (SSD) technology continues to mature their adoption rates increases making them more prevalent. PC manufacturers now offer SSDs as installation options in both Desktops and Laptops configurations; an expensive option but still an option. One way…
It’s been a bit since I’ve taken a look at any USB 3.0 related products hasn’t it? I think the last thing was an enclosure, and while enclosures are nice I much prefer docks, they’re just so much more useful…
Crucial SSDs are fast, at least I hear they are as I haven’t had the chance to play with one yet.. Anyway, now they are offering as data transfer kit with their C300 line of SSDs to make you life…
If you can’t tell by the thumbnail there, the new RevoDrive is a PCIE style SSD, and not your ‘normal’ hard disk type. They claim it’s the world’s fastest, and it probably is for now… The PCIE interface will get…
