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- Fixed TRIM firmware for 34-nm X25-Ms due this month
If you have one of Intel's new 34-nm solid-state drives and are waiting on TRIM firmware that doesn't brick your drive, good news. Alan Frost of Intel's NAND Solutions Group has posted an update on the Intel Support Community forums, promising a fixed firmware update will be...
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Last by Lazier_Said at 2:20 PM on 11/20/09 - OCZ lets loose the Colossus
After five months in limbo, the Colossus has finally made it out into the wild. We speak, of course, of OCZ's new 3.5" solid-state drive family, which combines impressive performance with even more impressive capacities thanks to a...
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Last by LoneWolf15 at 1:40 PM on 11/19/09 - TR's 10th: The dawn of solid-state storage, yet more winners revealed
These days, mechanical storage has gotten so dense and so cheap that only $30-40 separates 500GB 3.5" hard drives from their 1TB brethren. Yet strangely, that's not what everybody is getting excited about. Solid-state drives have become the new...
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Last by indeego at 11:40 AM on 11/12/09 - New OCZ SSDs to include SandForce controllers
OCZ will soon start treading new ground in the solid-state drive world. The company has teased a brand new line of drives based on controllers from little-known startup SandForce. While OCZ is keeping specs under lid for now—more details will follow in the weeks leading up to the Consumer Electronics...
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Last by gone at 6:06 AM on 11/11/09 - Corsair adds 32GB, 64GB Survivor GT thumb drives
Ever taken a USB thumb drive scuba diving and run out of storage capacity? Well, you can now avoid that conundrum: Corsair has added 32GB and 64GB models to its Survivor line of durable flash drives. The new Survivor GT drives feature the same "super-strong, CNC-milled, aircraft-grade aluminum casing" as their...
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Last by gone at 5:57 AM on 11/11/09 - Intel working on fix for latest SSD firmware issue
Well, all those user reports weren't flukes. Intel has posted a note on the Support Community forum saying it managed to reproduce a bricking problem induced by its latest solid-state-drive firmware update, and that the company is working on a fix. Here's the meaty part from the message by Alan...
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Last by VaultDweller at 10:03 AM on 11/10/09 - Toshiba crams 320GB into new 1.8-inch hard drive
Hard-drive makers don't just ramp capacities in their 3.5" and 2.5" products—teeny 1.8" drives are also quietly growing in storage density. This morning, Toshiba announced a new 1.8" mechanical hard drive lineup, the MK3233GSG series, which combines capacities...
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Last by MadManOriginal at 3:01 PM on 11/08/09 - Super Talent unveils USB 3.0 flash drive
Now that both Asus and Gigabyte have USB 3.0-compatible motherboards on the way, the next step is devices. Super Talent hasn't skipped a beat, announcing a trio of USB 3.0 flash drives with hefty capacities and impressive top transfer speeds. The new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 RAIDDrive series includes...
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Last by spanky1off at 9:10 PM on 11/05/09 - Kingston, Paramount offer movies on flash drives
Is this the beginning of the end for DVDs and Blu-ray? Only time will tell, but today's news still seems like a step in that direction: Kingston and Paramount Digital Entertainment have partnered up to distribute movies on USB and SD flash products. The agreement covers "full-length motion picture feature films,"...
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Last by KoolAidMan at 9:56 PM on 11/04/09 - WD gets into the Serial Attached SCSI business
Look out, Hitachi, Seagate, and Toshiba. Western Digital has amped up its enterprise product line by introducing the S25, its very first hard drive with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface, 10,000-RPM spindle speed, and 2.5" form factor. A look...
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Last by UberGerbil at 2:08 AM on 11/04/09 -
A quick look at Kanguru's e-Flash eSATA/USB thumb drive
Who needs USB 3.0?
A new hybrid eSATA/USB connector nicely marries the two standards to provide external storage devices with plenty of bandwidth and adequate power. We take a look at Kanguru's hybrid e-Flash drive to see if it's a worthwhile upgrade over standard USB thumb drives.
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Last by d0g_p00p at 12:04 PM on 11/05/09 - Intel, Numonyx announce phase-change memory breakthrough
Get ready to say goodbye to system RAM and flash-based solid-state drives... eventually. After several years of joint research, Intel and Numonyx, the chipmaker's former NOR flash division, have announced a "key breakthrough" in the development of phase-change memory (PCM): a 64Mb test chip that "enables the ability to...
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Last by internetsandman at 11:13 PM on 10/30/09 - Intel pulls TRIM firmware after data corruption complaints
Are Intel's new 34-nm solid-state drives just naturally predisposed to eating your data? The chipmaker had to halt shipments this summer after a BIOS-password-related data corruption issue came to light, and today, Engadget writes that Intel has pulled its new TRIM-enabled firmware after some users who installed it...
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Last by UberGerbil at 11:49 AM on 10/29/09 -
Western Digital's Caviar Black 2TB hard drive
Introducing the dual-stage actuator
Western Digital's Caviar Black 2TB finally spins the company's 500GB platters up to 7,200 RPM. The drive has a fancy dual-stage actuator and a beefy 64MB cache, too. Let's see what she can do.
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Last by flip-mode at 8:11 AM on 11/07/09 - Kingston intros low-cost desktop SSD upgrade
Not everybody can afford to plunk down 300 bucks on a state-of-the-art solid-state drive. However, Kingston thinks it can woo users on a budget with a new, low-cost SSD designed to complement a mechanical solution. The new SSDNow...
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Last by alphaGulp at 6:37 AM on 10/28/09 - Intel brings TRIM support to X25-M G2 solid-state drive
When Intel launched its second-generation X25-M solid-state drives, the company promised updated firmware with TRIM support following Windows 7's release. Now, just shy of a week after the arrival of Microsoft's latest OS, Intel has released a firmware upgrade for the X25-M G2. The new firmware...
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Last by GreatGooglyMoogly at 5:42 PM on 10/27/09 - Deal of the week: A 1TB drive and dock combo for $71.99
Earlier this week, Seagate's 2TB Barracuda LP earned our TR Recommended award for effectively beating Western Digital's Caviar Green at its own game. Today, we see Newegg sells the 1TB Barracuda LP for $79.99 shipped and chucks in a $40 Rosewill hard-drive docking station for free as...
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Last by not@home at 9:11 PM on 10/21/09 -
Seagate's Barracuda LP 2TB hard drive
A more transparent take on energy-efficient storage
Western Digital's Caviar Green line popularized power-efficient hard drives, and now Seagate has joined the party with a Barracuda LP that packs two terabytes. We take a closer look at how this 5,900-RPM 'cuda compares with its Caviar rival.
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Last by Freon at 2:59 PM on 10/16/09
- Upcoming microATX MSI H57 motherboard pictured[5]
- Internet Explorer 9 to feature GPU acceleration[9]
- Deal of the week: A $550 ultraportable and a $225 home server[10]
- Name Your PC Day Shortbread[22]
- Chrome OS VMware image pops up on BitTorrent[17]
- Power Pack 3 for Windows Home Server arrives next week[12]
