Hitachi has announced the release of their Ultrastar SSD400S.B Series of enterprise SSDs, these SSDs being the first to employ 25nm SLC NAND flash memory ensuring ultra-high performance and endurance.  The SSD400S.B features the 6GB/s SAS interface and is available in capacities of 100GB, 200GB, and 400GB. Specifications detail performance at 536MB/s read and 502MB/s write (64K sequential) with random …

Kingston Technology, a strong NAND-flash memory maker, is reportedly planning to cut prices for all of its NAND-flash products; possibly by as much as 15%.  This would include USB drives, memory modules, and its SSD products according to a Digitimes story. Kingston indicates that the anticipated price adjustments are coordinated with chips suppliers’ moving to more advanced process technologies that …

Lite-On IT is expecting to see a huge growth in SSD sales in 2012, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. Taiwan-based Lite-On is a maker of optical disc drives that ventured in to SSD production three years ago.  They are expected to increase their SSD revenue from a little over $34 million US in 2011 to over $200 million …

Everspin Technolgies is reporting record growth for 2011, with MRAM product shipments increasing over 300% from the prior year. The MRAM pioneer continues to shape the market for magnetic memories; gaining further momentum with over 250 design wins in the past year. Everspins patented MRAM technology is based on a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) storage element that is deposited on …

Only 13 days remain until the anticipated shipment date 0f 1/21/2012 for OWC’s new 480GB Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G for MacBook Air 2011 editions. This portable form factor SSD that is capable of up to 511 MB/s sustained reads, and up to 448 MB/s sustained writes leaps to the top of the current marketplace as the smallest and most powerful SSD available! …

OCZ Technology Group and Marvell have teamed up to unveil the industry’s fastest and most versatile PCI-express (PCIe) storage system — the Z-Drive R5.  With increased performance, reliability, and endurance the Z-Drive R5 is designed to take PCIe-based solid state storage to the next level for server and enterprise environments. The Z-Drive R5 series will debut at CES 2012 at the …

According to the technology market research firm IDC, SSD shipments saw a huge jump of nearly 67% in the 3rd quarter of 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. Revenue on those sales was up 91.6% to nearly $1.29 billion over that same period. This is coming on top of an already record year for the worldwide SSD market, when …

O & O Software has a new migration kit that enables an easy and convenient method to migrate your partitions from a conventional hard drive to an SSD .Utilizing their kit provides a properly aligned duplication of your HDD to your SSD. The free-to-download migration kit works with all editions of Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP — either 32-bit or …

The hard drive shortage created by the historic flooding in Thailand is proving to be more serious than expected. Western Digital and Seagate, two of the industry’s major suppliers of HDD’s, had their production facilities  shut down completely for several weeks. Western Digital this week announced resumption of limited operations at their HDD assembly facility in Bang Pa-in. Also affected …