Today’s consumer is a much smarter breed than we all were yesterday. The simple fact that SSDs are faster, totally silent, create less heat, are significantly more impact resistant and provide longer laptop battery life than the hard drive, just isn’t enough. Today’s consumer wants to know how this is possible and why. Our introductory two articles in the ‘Learning …
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Spring cleaning time is upon us. While your on that path, why not cleanup your computer as well. Backup those things you really want, print a few of those pictures you have taken and clean out that email you will never get to. If you haven’t already upgraded to an SSD, consider it and save yourself some valuable time. Oh, …
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Last week I posted the comment on a social site that stated, “If you are a friend of mine and still use a hard drive, I am embarrassed for you”. This drew criticism that I truly never expected, much from friends who responded through private thoughts back to me, some that I would never print. I was definitely taken aback …
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Toshiba and Sandisk have filed separate lawsuits seeking damages from SK Hynix, and have alleged that the company has profited from the theft of data relating to NAND flash memory technology. Toshiba and SanDisk have been partners for a number of years on the production of flash memory chip technology for mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. Toshiba currently …
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The following article is a reprint of a recent post at the LSI Blog that we felt would be of great benefit to our readers. Our thanks to LSI, Kent Smith and Jeremy Werner for their work and the opportunity to report information that we feel might be a great reading opportunity for our readers. Please check out the LSI …
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ADATA Technology, a leading producer of high performance NAND flash products and DRAM modules, is announcing the release of a firmware update, version 5.2.5, for ADATA SSDs that are equipped with LSI SandForce SF-2200 series controllers. The models affected by this firmware update are: SX910, SX900, SP900, SP800, S511, S510 and S396. The new firmware update improves SATA stability, and …
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Watching the Oscars tonight and pleasantly surprised by the fact they are not boring. It could be that I just enjoy Ellen Degeneres so much. Is there anyone else who could get movie stars, who have probably being starving themselves for days, to eat pizza on TV no less! HIGHLIGHT REVIEW Sennheiser G4ME Series G4ME ZERO Gaming Headset @ TechnologyX …
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Yesterday, we posted a report that seems to have drawn amazing attention, one that spoke to Intel’s final acknowledgement that their 3rd Generation controller was manufactured by none other than LSI. That really isn’t that big of a news scoop unless you are an SSD geek. It does tell us a great deal about the Intel 730 Series SSD we …
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The Intel 3rd Generation SSD controller was first seen in our review of the DC S3700 SSD in late 2012, and followed by our later review of the DC S3500 in May of 2013, both SSDs being enterprise variant drives targeted for the data center. The controller is an 8 channel 6Gbps controller and has enjoyed a great deal of …
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Marvell, a global provider of integrated silicon devices, is announcing launch of its new industry-leading SSD-class eMMC NAND flash controller geared to the mobile storage market. The new 88NV1088 5.0 NAND flash controller supports HS400 high transfer speeds, while also offering a high capacity point, ultra-high performance and high reliability. The 88NV1088 5.0 also features low latency and efficient power …
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