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Computerworld reviews the Intel X25-E solid state drive

Intel has obviously been sending out review units of its X25-E SSD, the enterprise sibling of the crazy fast X25-M solid state disk. The difference between the two versions lies in the fact that the... Read more...

Density of hard disk drives expected rise unabated

We won't be running out of hard disk space soon, if the state of hard disk engineering as outlined by Hitachi Global Storage product planning chief Tetsuya Kokubo is any indication. Speaking at... Read more...

Microsoft: Windows 7 optimized to run faster on SSDs

Microsoft has made "many changes" in order to make Windows 7 run faster on solid-state drives (SSD), the emerging gold standard in data storage. In a post on Microsoft's Engineering Windows 7 blog,... Read more...

Samsung unveils first self-encrypting SSD

On Thursday, Samsung Electronics unveiled the first hardware-based self-encrypting solid-state drive (SSD) in the world. Data is transparently encrypted as it is written to the SSD--which will be... Read more...

Intel resolves X25-M fragmentation issues with new firmware

Ever since Intel unveiled its X25-E and X25-M solid state drive (SSD) last year, the X25 series of SSD from Intel has been held up as the champion in terms of storage performance. More recently... Read more...

Samsung: Solid-state drive prices will match that of hard disk drives

Amid continued steep declines in the price of flash memory chips, the cost of solid-state drives (SSD) is expected to achieve price parity with that of current generation of hard disk drives within... Read more...

Intel X25-M solid-state drive degrades significantly with heavy use

Intel's top-of-the-line X25-M solid state drive--which has been touted for its superior performance--actually degrades in performance with extensive use, concluded a review site. According to PC... Read more...

Intel's new X25-E Extreme SSD blows the competition away

Intel has unveiled a new solid state drive (SSD) in the form of the X25-E Extreme, which is even faster than the X25-M which was released in September. The folks over at the Tech Report got their... Read more...

SanDisk unveils dramatic performance boost for SSD

SanDisk, on Wednesday, announced a new flash memory management system called Extreme Flash File System (ExtremeFFS) that it claims can work up to 100 times faster than the existing generation of... Read more...

Intel ships new solid-state drives

Intel started shipping its new X25E Extreme SATA SSD on Wednesday. Available in a 2.5-inch form factor, the drive is built with Intel's 50-nanometer single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory... Read more...