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PureSilicon, well known for their SSD products aimed at military and server applications, has announced the release of their Kage K1 series of SSDs which will be offered with both SATA III and USB 3.0 interfaces. The SATA drive is built around a Sandforce controller and will offer read and write speeds of 540 MB/s and 520 MB/s respectively not …

The worlds first flash based supercomputer has been unveiled at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.  Aptly named “Gordon” (i.e. Flash Gordon), this new supercomputer is an impressive display of how SSD technology is presenting itself not only in consumer devices, but in enterprise environments as well. Supercomputers have traditionally relied upon mass amounts of hard disk drives to handle their …