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Intel has started shipping solid-state drives (SSD) for use in both desktop and laptop computers. Leveraging on multi-level cell flash memory chips for performance, the X-18M and X-25M SSDs are both... Read more...
Samsung
and Sun Microsystems announced on Tuesday that they have co-developed a new 8
Gbit single-level-cell (SLC) flash memory for use in solid-state drives
(SSD). According to the companies,... Read more...
Seagate
will be bringing in the company's first SSD (solid state drive) offering by
next year. Not surprisingly, it will be
targeted squarely at the enterprise where they can afford the premium
Intel
is set to produce a 32Gb NAND flash memory that it jointly developed with
Micron Technology. Based on a
34-nanometer technology, it is the smallest NAND process geometry on the market
and
Samsung
plans to launch a 256 GB solid state disk before the end of this year. A prototype sporting the same 2.5-inch form
factor as the hard disk drives traditionally utilized in notebook
Plans are afoot over at Google to shift some of its servers over to SSD-based storage. The motivation has to do with lower electrical consumption compared with that of traditional Winchester (or