Intel’s 2nd Generation SSDs

With the expanding competition in the market for Solid State Disk’s a big change has been imminent for a long time. Well the company that seem to be making that big change are Intel by announcing that they plan to release generation 2.0 drives. This may be a big oppurtunity for Hitachi following their recent co-development news. Read more

Intel and Hitachi will co-develop solid-state discs (SSDs)

Intel and Hitachi will be joining forces to co-develop solid-state discs (SSDs), they will be joining hands to co-develop the SSDs for the enterprise market which is very good news indeed.

Hitachi will move forward by incorporating Intel’s NAND flash inside of its drives, if everything goes to plan they are hoping to release the first batch early 2010. Hitachi has said that both Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fiber Channel (FC) drives are being designed and will hopefully release on the date stated above.

Intel has backed the development and of course the formation of the SSD market, these new solid-state discs (SSDs) will be branded and will also be sold exclusively and of course supported by Hitachi GST, Hitachi will continue to develop, market and sell its SATA SSDs.

This is great news and it looks like 2010 is promising in the way of solid-state discs, Shinjiro Iwata, executive vice president of strategic business operations at Hitachi GST said

“We understand the needs of today’s enterprise customers and are committed to delivering breakthrough products that increase their data center performance and reduce total cost of ownership, by expanding our product line-up to include both traditional enterprise hard drives and new SSDs, Hitachi GST will continue to provide customers with a proven set of products tailored to meet the high-performance, high-reliability requirements of today’s data center.”

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Seagate developing hybrid SSD’s (Solid State Disks)

Seagate is a bit late to the whole Solid State Drives party, but their CEO has said that they are now working on their own line of SSD’s. Bill Watkins has been talking to Pocket-Lint, and has been discussing about what we can expect from them once they start to put their resources behind SSD technology. Read more

HP, Intel and Yahoo! Create Global Cloud Computing Research Test Bed

HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today announced the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. The goal of the initiative is to promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments by removing the financial and logistical barriers to research in data-intensive, Internet-scale computing.

The HP, Intel and Yahoo! Cloud Computing Test Bed will provide a globally distributed, Internet-scale testing environment designed to encourage research on the software, data center management and hardware issues associated with cloud computing at a larger scale than ever before Read more

Disc Makers introduce new Reflex Flash USB drive duplicators

Disc Makers, the nation’s leading manufacturer of CD and DVD duplicators and printers, is proud to introduce the new Reflex Flash USB drive duplicators, a breakthrough in affordable home and office flash drive duplication.

The Reflex Flash duplicators are aggressively priced at just $699 for the 3-drive, $899 for the 7-drive, and $1,099 for the 11-drive model. Similar duplicators in the marketplace can cost as much as $2,000 to $4,000 Read more

2009 MAZDA Details: CX-9, MAZDA6, CX-7, MAZDA5, RX-8 & More

MAZDA6 Sports Sedan - The 2009 MAZDA6 is all new, and built specifically for the North American market. Lessons learned from the first MAZDA6 and Mazda’s newer successful vehicles - especially the Mazda CX-7 and award-winning CX-9 - encouraged a clean-sheet approach to building the best mid-size sports sedan the US market has ever experienced.

All efforts have been focused on a single four-door sedan bodystyle offered in two basic series: the MAZDA6 i powered by a 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine and the MAZDA6 s powered by a 3.7-liter V-6. The lineup also includes a comprehensive choice of equipment levels, interior colors and distinct interior trims Read more

Can We Use a 2TB Hard Drive With a 64GB Buffer?

Texas memory systems will soon have the biggest solid state disc. Solid state disc drives are the fastest Read more

Worlds First Samsung’s 64GB SSDs

I could not believe my eyes when I come across this 64GB SSDs a world first bought to you by Samsung. Read more

Latest Gadgets up to 05-12-2007

Solid-state storage to the masses with 8GB IDE drive

The only fixed component in a PC that has moving parts is currently the much adopted but old technology of mechanical hard disk drives, this does need to change and we are seeing big moves forward in brands planning on changing things in this computer hardware area.

Mechanical hard disk drives are an unwanted bottleneck in the modern computer as I have experienced this much more on my latest PC which has an Intel Dual Core 2 processor running at 2.4ghz and the hard drive sounds like it is being pounded by the processor Read more