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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).

• The Byte - Chrome OS update, SSD’s bleak outlook, tablet race results, Android 5.0 Jelly Bean

  By IDG News Service | 18 February, 2012 05:29

  Today on The Byte: Amazon’s Kindle Fire is catching up to Apple’s iPad; Google hopes to fixed dropped Wi-Fi on its Chromebooks; and Researchers think that SSDs have a bleak outlook.

• SSDs have a 'bleak' future, researchers say

  By Lucas Mearian | 17 February, 2012 07:15

  As the circuitry of NAND flash-based, solid-state drives shrinks, performance drops precipitously -- meaning the technology could be doomed, according to new research.

• Need more storage? Reach for the Cloud

  By Tony Bradley | 31 January, 2012 06:21

  When you start out with a fresh new hard drive, it may seem like it has virtually unlimited capacity. The reality, though, is that it won't take nearly as long to max out that drive as you might think, and you will need to find some way to expand your storage.

• Encrypted solid state drives protect laptop data

  By Tom Henderson | 24 January, 2012 02:18

  Vendors are touting solid state replacement drives as a way to protect corporate data in the event of a laptop being lost or stolen, and to boost performance at the same time.

• SSD prices will fall below $1 per GB in 2012, says IDC

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 January, 2012 03:54

  The price for SSDs (solid state drives) that are going into PCs are expected to fall below US$1 per gigabyte during the second half of 2012, further boosting adoption, market research company IDC said on Monday.

• 6 tech bargains for 2012

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 08 January, 2012 09:36

  Procrastination is not often a virtue but when it comes to electronics, it often is.

• IN PICTURES: 10 products changing the business world

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 30 November, 2011 10:57

  From Siri and SSD to augmented reality and Ice Cream Sandwich, here are 10 technology gamechangers