For only $80, you can get a Kingston SSDNow V 30GB Flash Drive that will boost your system performance. Boasting speeds of up to 180MB/sec. read speed and 50MB/sec. write speed, it is a surefire way of decreasing your boot time or even your software startup time. SSDs are known to be better in terms more »

There are times when you need to bring large files from your desktop or laptop to someone else’s and no flash drive you have is quite large enough to hold those massive files or can only handle a portion of them. Moving files through several transfers from one flash drive, over and over, again can more »

Fusion-io, who has an awesome front page image (as seen above), is working with Samsung to put in solid state drives into servers. The first thought I had was, “Why?” After all, solid state drives make a lot more sense for portable electronics like laptops since they can increase battery life and avoid damage when more »

I got a chance to speak to Doreet Oren, Director of Product Marketing, SSD for SanDisk. She told me about the SSDs that SanDisk introduced at CES and we spoke about SanDisk’s plans.

SanDisk is focusing on two markets with their SSDs: netbooks and traditional laptops. For the netbooks, SanDisk has its Pico SSD (pSSD) line. The first generation was in the HP Mini-note. The second generation pSSD has both SATA and 2nd generation PATA.

This morning, Sandisk unveiled its latest and greatest in flash memory: 60GB, 120GB, and even 240GB solid state drives (SSD) to fuel new-age laptops. The drives are crammed into 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch bodies, and seem to have some great performance — 200MB/sec read and 140MB/sec write. Due out in the middle of 2009, the new more »

Modern laptop users demand SSDs for their laptops due to their inherently faster seek time and shock-proof nature. With that in mind, Toshiba has recently announced a boost in its SSD and Flash Modules line-up, satisfying laptop and netbookusers.

Buffalo has recently introduced their latest portable storage solution, the MicroStation. The new drives come in a variety of storage options to include 32, 64 and 100GB and the exciting part is they are solid state drives. As of now pricing and an availability date have not yet been announced, but we can tell you more »

It was only a couple of months ago when we said that Samsung was planning to roll out a new 256GB SSD by 2009. And look what we have here right now, Samsung just announced its new ultra-fast 256GB SSD. Yes, folks Samsung was really dead serious in upgrading its previously released 128GB model with this new higher capacity flashSSD.

The 256GB flashSSD doubles the reading speed of the 128mpbs model with its own 200mpbs sequential data reading speed. Even better is its writing speed which now runs at 160MB per second as compared to the 70mbps writing speed of the previous model. And not only is the 256GB SSD ultra fast, but it is also enclosed in an ultra-thin chassis which measures only 9.5mm in thickness.

Solid State Drives, or SSD, are the up and coming solution to the moving parts problem of current hard drives. Based on flash technology, the read/write times of SSDs are flat out blazing. An Intel R&D group, headed up by Knut Grimsud, is responsible for developing new storage technologies, one of them being solid state more »