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• Seagate to demo 12Gbps SAS SSD

  By Lucas Mearian | 08 May, 2012 06:27

  Seagate said it will demonstrate a 12Gbps SAS solid-state drive (SSD) at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase this week.

• HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centers

  By Loek Essers | 01 May, 2012 19:53

  Western Digital company HGST on Tuesday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive for use in enterprise storage servers, delivering twice the throughput compared to current 6Gbps SAS technology.

• Free Tools to Wipe Your Drives Securely

  By Alex Wawro | 26 April, 2012 23:29

  Your PC's hard drive is packed with your personal data. So when you want to get rid of your system or drive, you should permanently erase your storage device drives before you get rid of them. If your drives are encrypted and you trust the encryption protocol (full disk encryption is pretty safe), all you have to do is delete your encryption keys. If you want to safeguard your privacy further--and prevent data theft down the road--here are a few cheap and simple tools designed to wipe your hard drive, solid-state drive, or USB flash drive thoroughly before you dispose of it.

• Intel ships new SSD 330 series, but limits it to 180GB storage

  By Agam Shah | 17 April, 2012 04:54

  Intel's streak of solid-state drive announcements has continued with the company announcing a new line of SSD 330 drives for mainstream computers but with maximum storage capacity of only 180GB.

• Intel drives up SSD storage capacity to 800GB

  By Agam Shah | 12 April, 2012 17:07

  Intel on Thursday announced new solid-state drives with storage of up to 800GB, which is a new high in capacity for the company's SSD products.

• Samsung eyes next generation of NAND to lower laptop cost

  By Stephen Lawson | 12 April, 2012 06:43

  A new type of NAND flash storage for consumer electronics that can store data more densely might lower the cost of devices such as tablets and thin "ultrabook" laptops, according to Samsung.

• Intel ships SSDs that help laptops boot faster

  By Agam Shah | 06 April, 2012 09:43

  Intel has started shipping a new series of small-capacity solid-state drives (SSDs) that can be used in laptops to reduce boot times and load applications more quickly.

• PCIe SSD consortium, product test lab created

  By Lucas Mearian | 15 March, 2012 05:36

  The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is forming a consortium charged with developing an interoperability test suite for Non-Volatile Memory Express Consortium (NVMe) PCIe-based solid-state devices (SSDs).

• Four considerations for SSD deployment

  By Bob Fine | 02 November, 2009 19:01

  While solid state drives offer increased performance, the key to figuring out the role they can play in the data center is balancing that performance against cost.

• OCZ's new Agility SSD is true to its name

  By Lucas Mearian | 20 July, 2009 08:24

  OCZ has had its share of problems out of the gate with its low-end, consumer solid-state disk drive, the Apex Series SATA II. But its most recent economy SSD, the Agility Series SATA II 2.5-in., appears to be a successful effort to correct old problems with fresh technology. The Agility has ample cache to boost write performance and, most important, uses a higher-end controller. Yet it is only slightly more expensive than the Apex, which is still being sold.

• Samsung shrinks SSDs for netbooks

  By Agam Shah | 23 June, 2009 11:41

  Samsung on Monday introduced solid-state drives (SSDs) for netbooks that are smaller than traditional SSDs and consume significantly less power.

• Solid-state disks offer 'fast erase' features

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 10 February, 2009 10:13

  As the pilot ejects inside enemy territory, the fighter jet triggers an automatic data-destruction sequence. Within 15 seconds, the highly classified mission data on the solid-state disk has been wiped out.

• Which operating system is best for SSDs?

  By Lucas Mearian | 12 December, 2008 07:59

  Solid-state disk (SSD) drive architecture can play a big role in how fast a computer boots up and performs. But how big a role the SSDs play -- and how much faster an operating system is -- depends as much on the operating system as on the drive. Although none of the mainstream operating systems now in use have been optimized to work better with SSDs, some do natively work more efficiently than others, according to storage experts.

• How to equip your PC with SSD for about $200

  By Computerworld Staff | 23 September, 2008 11:45

  A lot of solid-state disk (SSD) drive reviews and features have been circulating around the Internet lately, and I've noticed that the speeds of those products are increasing remarkably, even as manufacturers use more multilevel cell (MLC) NAND flash memory in their products, which is innately slower than single-level cell (SLC) NAND.