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Samsung 128GB solid state hard drive now official

This is the Samsung 128GB solid state hard drive which has now been made official, although the 64GB drives are still hard to acquire.

This is a MLC (multi-level cell)-based SSDs and Samsung has Read more

Intel to bring SSD drives to the consumer: 80 and 160GB by Q2

One of the biggest advancements when it comes to computer storage has to be the SSD drives; the likes of Samsung, SanDisk and Toshiba dominate the market. Well it now seems that Intel what a piece of the action and plan to bring the solid-state drives to the consumer.

Intel hopes to bring 80 to 160GB SSDs in Q2 and 128GB in Q3. Intel knows how popular this SSD Drives will become as we demand battery times from our laptops, and this is the answer.

Source - Cnet

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

SSD’s Get Cheaper: SuperTalent solid-state disks in 30GB, 60GB, and 120GB

The biggest downfall to desktop computers and laptops over the years has been the slow progress of hard drives, yes they have moved on but so much slower than all the other technology like graphics cards and processors. Now the good news is in the more recent months and years we have seen SSD’s (solid-state disks) show up on the market. The reason this is exciting for the hard drive department is they have no moving parts like the run-of-the-mill storage in our computers, this means much faster file movement and quicker boot-up times for your PC.

The bad news is price and this is also the reason you do not see many laptops or desktops with SSD’s in local stores, they are around but as soon as one gets added, the computers price goes through the roof. You only have to look at the MacBook Air, look at the higher model, its the SSD mainly that moved that price up so much.

We know that the prices will come down in 2008 and 2009, but we are also hearing today that SuperTalent have added three new SSD’s to their line-up and these cheaper models are MLC flash-based gear. You can expect to pay $299 for the 30GB version, $449 for the 60GB and $699 for 120GB. Although it’s still a high price in comparison to regular hard drives, in the Solid State Disk world, that’s pretty good. You can expect to get some astounding sequential read and write speeds as well.

Source: Read

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

Solid State Disk (SSD): Production up, prices down

Everyone should know by now what a Solid State Disk can do for your laptop or desktop computer, there have been enough comparison videos showing the boot-up time of Windows with an SSD compared to a normal drive.

Tweak Town have taken a look at the industry and where it stands now, things are looking much better than they have ever looked when it comes to SSD’s.

In their final thoughts they said “Solid state drives are not going to hit one day, cause mass hysteria and have people waiting in lines outside of their local Apple Store like some products. Even at the 300 Dollar price point for a 64GB drive, enthusiasts and business users will be the first to take advantage of the new, lower prices.

Over the next few months, big box builders will start to offer solid state drives in more of their middle class notebooks, and if big memory manufacturers like Samsung are not able to meet demand, the prices will rise again. Thankfully, these manufacturers appear to be ready to meet demand or at least know they need to ramp up production quickly.

It is my belief that upgrading your platter based hard drive to an SSD will produce the most significant change to your computing experience for a modern computer. I am neither talking frames per second nor calculation from a benchmark, but your overall, real world ‘I use my computer everyday’ tasks. The difference is similar to running an eight-year-old 20GB, 512KB cache drive with Vista installed and then moving to a new SATA II drive.

Over the next 30 days, I will run my Lenovo T61 notebook with the Super Talent Master Drive MX and give a detailed report of my experiences dealing with the battery life, losing 40GB of storage space and the overall system feel. This isn’t a shelf notebook that is used on the weekend; my T61 goes with me everywhere and twelve hours on my lap a day is not uncommon”

Read the three page market review.

Samsung SE-S204S DVD burner: burns without hard drives

Here we have the Samsung SE-S204S DVD burner, many of you will be asking what is so special about it and that answer is that the burner will not need to use your hard drive to burn anything to a disc. However you will 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

SSD (Solid State Disk) in laptops: prices still high, will you wait?

If your buying a laptop in 2008 then it’s a good idea to look at SSD (Solid State Disk) options as they have many benefits, but as soon as you add this to a laptop one thing changes right away and that’s price. SSD’s are still a lot of money compared to normal hard drives, maybe they will come down in 2009, but for now expect to pay more money for this little extra.

Earlier today peter reported about the upcoming Toshiba Portege R500 12Q that will come with a 128GB SSD drive and it also features a dual-layer DVD writer, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, 12.1-inch LED-backlit display and a Core 2 Duo ULV U7700 processor. There is no word on price yet, but again we can expect it to be more than it’s competitor with a normal hard drive.

Will consumers make the move to SSD now or will most people wait until the price crashes, I have always been one to buy early on and also one that pays the price for it. While prices have come down a little, this time I am waiting it out and they may be some time yet.

Do you own a laptop with SSD and if not would you wait until the price comes down a lot or pay a premium now?

USB drives shaped like animals

If you are looking for something different then this is it.

Minimoo is the name of a new line of Swedish manufactured USB drives shaped like animals.

There are currently four different models to choose from. Read more

CD/DVD Disc Repair Pro

Have you got damaged discs? you need this repair pro.

With the CD/DVD Disc Repair Pro will fully restore your damaged discs and will protect your favourite CD, CD-Rom, or DVD collection.

The clean, repair, and buff functions will make 99 percent of your Read more

New style Star Wars-themed flash drives from Mimoco

Mimoco already had a range of Star Wars-themed flash drives, but the original line-up was not that great so they have come up with a new range of second series drives that has distorted faces of all our Read more

Hard Drives in Cars: Where will it stop?

When we mention about hard drives in cars, we are not talking cheap ones that you can purchase form stores, but hard disks that are fit for automotive. These would be able to withstand shocks up to 200 or more times the force of gravity, as you never know what can happen in your Read more

Metal Gear Solid 4 Limited Edition Sony PS3 $599.99: MGS 4 Playstation Bundle Details

Oh yes the latest news will have all you Sony PS3 Metal Gear Solid 4 fans loving this one, there is a brand new Metal Gear Solid 4 Limited Edition Sony PS3 coming very soon, in fact the release date is set for June 12, 2008 which is very soon indeed. We also have some MGS 4 Playstation bundle details for you as well.

The retail market will be hit with the stunning limited edition gunmetal gray MGS4 PS3, this will be available exclusively from Konami.com (Link Below) for only $599.99. Fir that price you will get the 40GB gunmetal Sony PS3 with matching DualShock 3 wireless controller, exclusive Blu-ray disc with 2-hours of additional content (making of documentary and look at Hideo Kojima’s production team) and of course the MGS4 plus Metal Gear Online and Guns of the Patriots Limited Edition game. The downside is that there will be a limited supply, you can pre-order from Monday the 19th.

WARNING: You must remember this is NOT the previously revealed MGS4 Standard Edition 80GB PS3 bundle!

This is definitely something you should all have on your wish list, the MGS4 LE game box contains The Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots game which also includes the brilliant Metal Gear Online where you can take part in the awesome multiplayer squad based tactical shooter, as said above exclusive Blu-ray disc which includes “Hideo Kojima’s Gene”, a behind-the-scenes vision of Hideo Kojima’s production team & game and “The Making of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots” documentary. As well as, the official Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots CD Soundtrack, including 16 never-before-released tracks by Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, Armageddon, The Rock), Nobuko Toda, and Ennio Morricone.

This is a ONE PER customer product – Check it out here at Konami.com

MacBook hard drives flawed: 7.0.1 Seagate has fatal defect

There are some rumors going around that some MacBook hard drives could have flawed hard drives, according to a report by UK data-recovery firm Retrodata the hard drive that has the Read more

USB Pocket Hard Drives and Network Storage: is this the end of DVD’s and CD’s

It seems as if people are now starting to question why we need optical drives in laptops, this question has arisen since the launch of the Apple MacBook Air as it does not come with one. The thing is Apple decided not to Read more

Promo video for the Nintendo 64 Disc Drive: port games to Wii

This is only a quick post of a video I found on Game Trailers showing the promo video for the Nintendo 64 Disc Drive, this is very interesting as it shows some games that need to be ported over to the very successful Nintendo Wii Read more

Sony Blu-ray Disc Format: Do you know what it is? 60% of US does

Now that HD-DVD is well and truly dead, who knows what Sony Blu-ray is and about it’s disc format? Media research firm Interpret have released the results of a new study which shows that 60% of the US knows what the Blu-ray disc format is, this is much better than it has been and even higher than France (30%), Japan (45%), Germany (49%) and the UK at (56%).

The survey was taken in mid-January with consumers aged 18-54, and now homes in the United States with BD-disc players is over 10 million (not sure if that includes Sony PS3’s).

Do you know what Blu-ray disc is?

Source: Read | Via Pocket Lint

Western Digital Introduces 500GB My Passport Drives

Western Digital (WD) has just introduced the all new 500GB My Passport drives today, well what we really meant to say was, they are shipping the 500GB My Passport portable USB My Passport drives.

You can get your hands on the My Passport drives from WD right now as of today; you have two options which are the My Passport Elite or My Passport Essential, both in 500GB glory.

The My Passport Elite will cost $219.99 and the My Passport Elite will cost you $199.99, now if you ask me, what a bargain.

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Western Digital debuts new external hard drives: My Book and Passport Portable

Western Digital have debuted their new range of My Book and Passport Portable external hard drives, the Passport series measure just 2.5-inches while the Read more