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Advanced Micro Devices and OCZ Storage Solutions, a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp., on Monday said that they would showcase personal computers powered by AMD hardware and Vector 150 series solid state drives at the Game Developers Conference later this week. The systems will illustrate how developers can enhance productivity and …

LaCie, a subsidiary of Seagate Technology, this week introduced the world’s fastest consumer-class external storage solution that will allow to edit ultra-high-definition video in the field. The new LaCie Little Big Disk features Thunderbolt 2 interface and read speed of up to whopping 1375MB/s. As usual, the speed comes at …

While OCZ Storage Solutions will continue to utilise third-party controllers for solid-state drives for some of the upcoming products, the grand plan is to rely exclusively on controllers designed by OCZ and by the parent company, Toshiba Corp. Moreover, it looks like OCZ has a promising controller in the works. …

OCZ Storage Solutions, a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp., on Tuesday introduced its new Z-Drive 4500 PCIe family of solid-state drives designed for enterprises. The new series delivers even higher performance in comparison to OCZ’s Z-Drive R4 and takes advantage of multiple new technologies. The new OCZ Z-Drive 4500 PCIe solid-state …

Intel Corp. is working on its next-generation 750-series solid-state drives aimed at performance enthusiasts and professionals that will sport PCI Express interface in order to maximize its speeds, according to a source with knowledge of Intel’s plans. The new drives will be available late this year. It is not a …

Intel Corp. on Thursday unveiled its new lineup of high-end solid-state drives (SSDs) aimed at performance-demanding users. The new Intel 730-series SSDs are the first drives featuring controller and NAND components binned and qualified for higher clock-rates, yet, the manufacturer claims ultimate reliability of the drives. Intel solid-state drives 730-series …

Toshiba Corp. on Wednesday announced its all-new HG6 family solid-state drives that are designed to offer increased performance over predecessors. The new drives come in a variety of form-factors and are suitable for a wide range of applications from ultra-thin notebooks to data center servers. Toshiba’s new HG6 series SSDs …

SanDisk this week introduced its new SecureDigital memory cards compliant with the latest UHS-II standard that can offer performance of low-cost solid-state drives, which is needed to shoot videos in ultra-high-definition resolutions. The new SanDisk Extreme PRO SDHC/SDXC UHS-II memory cards are designed for experienced users and require cameras and …

Toshiba Corp., one of the world’s largest manufacturer of NAND flash memory, early on Wednesday said that it had finalized the purchase of substantially all assets of OCZ Technology Group, making it a wholly owned subsidiary and Toshiba Group Company. From now on, the maker of solid-state drives will be …

SanDisk on Monday introduced its new solid-state storage solution designed for enterprise servers. The ULLtraDIMM solid-state drive comes in industry-standard DDR3 DIMM form-factor for servers and plugs directly into appropriate slots on mainboards for lowest latency and higher performance. The SanDisk ULLtraDIMM SSD, which was developed in partnership with Diablo …

Toshiba Corp. and OCZ Technology Group on Friday announced that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court allowed the former to buy substantially all of the latter’s assets. The transaction is expected to close next week and from then OCZ will continue as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toshiba. OCZ Technology Group continues its …

Plextor, one of the most respected brand-names in the consumer storage industry, this week unveiled its new M6 lineup of solid-state drives. The new SSDs come in various form-factors that target different types of personal computers and also sport different interfaces, including Serial ATA and PCI Express. The latter brings …

Mushkin, a leading manufacturer of various consumer-class computer components, on Monday introduced its first enterprise-class solid-state drives (SSDs). Since the company is a newcomer to the market of enterprise-grade SSDs, its drives are not aimed at the high-end of the market, but are designed for various workstations that require improved …

With a guest list of speakers that includes Intel, LSI, Box, VMWare and the Open Compute Project, AIS (Accelerating Innovation Summit) is a major conference aimed squarely at how the data processing market can handle the next generation of datacentric processing. Adata has put its hand in its pocket to …

Storage manufacturer SanDisk, has announced the introduction of a new SSD in its enterprise lineup: the X210, offering improved performance for key IT support parts and better responsiveness for the data centre as a whole. Available only through SanDisk's commercial busisess channel, those wanting to upgrade the responsiveness of their …

If you want to get your hands on a terrabyte of SSD storage, you better get a move on, as the UK's first batch of the Samsung 840 EVO 1TB edition is almost out of stock. Just three remain over at Aria at the time of writing, for just under …

Once the cool weather starts to roll in, we're sure that PC-related sales will increase and everything will be much better for manufacturers across the globe. In the meantime, pucker up – here come more price cuts on juicy Solid State Drives. Samsung's 840 series has proven to be one …

A few months back, KitGuru was analysing the slow down in system sales brought on by the start of the summer holiday period, combined with an overall sluggishness in the economy, and wondering why SSD prices were looking decidedly higher than for the same period in 2012. Prices had to …

Megatron would be proud. While mere mortals scratch around trying to make 60/120GB SSD drives last for the lifetime of their system, those armed with 240GB and above have managed to look suitably smug. Until now. KitGuru pulls out the trusty abacus to see exactly how many NAND gates have …

When Intel first started touting the concept of an Ultrabook, our imaginations were captivated. Computex that year was full of new ideas and concepts – mostly built around processors that would ultimately struggle to make their sales targets. The problem was price. But maybe that's changing. You want the Core …

What is the Golden Ratio for SSDs?  Good question and one that Plextor wants you to consider. They have set up a special site for this question and are now offering some very cool prizes to those in the know. KitGuru has had a go, but before we get into …

When KitGuru Labs put the 240GB OCZ Agility 3 under our powerful performance microscope in 2011, we were left surprised that such performance was possible in a drive that cost less than £400. Today's latest offer from eBuyer takes OCZ's hugely impressive drive and makes it affordable for everyone. KitGuru …

Since 2010, KitGuru has been driving the notion that all systems should boot off an SSD. With the pricing on SSDs so competitive across the board – and laptop companies telling us how important battery life is – why do the vast majority of notebooks come with a cruddy old …

Seagate has announced a new line of hybrid drives, melding solid state technology with traditional hard drive platters, in a variety of sizes and shapes – making them applicable for both laptops as well as desktop PCs for those that don't want to take the jump to a single SSD …

KitGuru is nothing is not extrapolatory. We love looking back and predicting the future. When it comes to SSD, there is a sea change coming – so we've pulled out the trusty sextant and peered into the foggy future to see what Spring 2014 might look like. Right now, the …

Mushkin has announced what it's calling a “world's first,” with its new 480GB mSATA SSD, designed to save on space while giving Ultrabooks a serious performance boost. Joining the Atlas family of mSATA drives, this new just-shy-of-500GB offering, features a SATA III interface, TRIM and S.M.A.R.T support and all the …

We have all gotten used to the idea that we work in/around a fast-paced industry where product cycles endlessly spin out new product at lower prices than ever before, but that's not so true in the laptop sector. Even with massive competition from the tablet PC industry, laptops seem to …

Even though solid state drives have come down significantly in price over the past year, cache drives are still quite popular with those who want to enjoy the performance gains an SSD has to offer, without a large expense.  They can also be added to existing mechanical hard drive systems …

Most of the noise around the AMD brand recently has focused on the low share price, the redundancies and the company's overall prospects for the future. Today, we're taking a look at one of its recent technology launches, Radeon RAMDisk. KitGuru gets up close and personal with AMD memory guru, …

ADATA is targeting Intel Smart Response Technology users with its 24GB SP300 mSATA SSD. Can the SandForce SF-2141 controller and SATA 3Gb/s boundary-pushing speeds lure value-orientated and budget-conscious consumers? With an increasingly widespread adoption of the emerging mSATA interface by motherboard and laptop companies, many SSD manufacturers have designed low-cost options that make …