As Gizmodo says, “swindled“ That’s what we are all feeling when Tom’s Hardware determined solid state drives don’t save power, they slurp it up like a 64oz soda from 7-11. The theory behind SSD (Solid State Drives) would be no moving parts, thus a big power savings. This thought process seemed particularely promessing for portable […]
Several days ago two leaders in memory manufacturing announced a partnership in development of solid state memory hard drives. PQI (Power Quotient Int’l) and TDK will be holding hands all the way to the bank. The new company will focus on storage solutions for industrial and commercial use PCs/Systems. Its initial capital is for PQI […]
UFS 4.0 Has 2,800MB/Second Write Speeds Samsung claims to have created the industry’s highest performing Universal Flash Storage (UFS). With read speeds of up to 4,200MB/s and write speeds of up to 2,800MB/s, UFS 4.0 is twice as fast as the previous generation. Not only is UFS 4.0 faster than previous generations, but Samsung claims […]
For the purpose of this article we are explaining the difference between “disc” and “disk” in relationship to the terms applied to technology products. The term “disc” is most often referred to data storage in the form of optical media. The term “disk” is most often referred to data storage in the form of hard […]
Almost fifteen years ago Lexar announced it’s first 1GB SD card. Today Lexar announces their first 1TB SD card. My, how times have changed. A one GB card ten years ago cost about $125 and difficult to find at that capacity. The 1TB card announced today is $499. If the price difference isn’t a big […]
SanDisk is well known for its memory and and with the price of flash memory steadily dropping, the SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable 240GB SSD is as affordable as it is fast. Less than half the size of your smarthpone, it can deliver up to 4x the speed of a portable hard drive with […]
Nexcopy introduces all new, USB Duplicator for USB 3.0 SuperSpeed technology. 16 target system copies quickly and automatically.
If you haven’t noticed the shift yet, there is no doubt you’ll see it in 2011. We are talking about the shift from disk drive storage to solid state storage. Sure we’ve heard netbooks run off flash and some other high end laptops, but not until Steve Jobs announced their new MacBook will be all […]
The Compact Flash Organization [site] released their new 5.0 specification earlier today. It just blew the cap off the lid of storage limits. The current specification for Compact Flash is 137GBs…now that is 144 Petabytes, or PBs. Petabyte is a big number, and most people haven’t heard of it. Well, to break it down, a […]
For those who know, the Samsung branded NAND flash memory is considered the Tier 1 quality that everyone talks about. It’s the best stuff out there…highest quality, best in performance, yet always a touch above others [Micron, Hynix, etc] in price. Well that might change because Samsung is entering the retail market with their solid […]
