News tagged with flash drive

Intel packs performance and reliability into its latest SSD 520 series

Intel Corporation announced today its fastest, most robust client/consumer solid-state drive (SSD) to date, the Intel Solid-State Drive 520 Series (Intel SSD 520), a 6 gigabit-per-second (gbps) SATA III SSD ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Apple has bought Israeli flash-memory co. Anobit

(AP) -- Apple confirmed Wednesday that it has bought Anobit Technologies, an Israeli maker of flash memory technology already used in many of Apple's gadgets.

Technology / Business

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Roku expands beyond Internet video-streaming boxes

Roku is thinking outside its set-top box in an attempt to bring more Internet video to flat-panel televisions.

Technology / Business

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Thin drives -- the next generation of portable memory

Tablets are fast becoming the media device of choice nowadays for work and play, particularly with the advent of iPads and the Samsung Galaxy Tab into the mobile device market. With a volume of 19.5 million ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 14

New Acer Ultrabook is no MacBook Air, but it's not bad

I'm a big fan of Apple's MacBook Air computer. Revamped by Apple last year, the notebook is a thin, ultralight, speedy computer. Instead of a high-powered processor, a traditional hard drive and a DVD slot, ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Transcend says USB stick capable of 2 TB storage

"Imagine that going into your tablet!" The presenter at the Display Taiwan 2011 Technology Show recently was demonstrating a finger-length, thin USB flash drive of 16 gigabytes. She told visitors, however, that what was re ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 16 | with audio podcast weblog

All-flash enterprise storage startup ready (and funded) for battle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pure Storage has announced it has raised $30 million in a new round of funding for its cost-cutting storage system that uses flash memory only. This is its C-round of funding, which brings ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

SDSC readying 'Gordon' supercomputer for pre-production trials this month

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, will this month launch a pre-production phase of Gordon, the first high-performance supercomputer to use large amounts of flash-based SSD ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New directions in data storage solutions

(PhysOrg.com) -- One day in the not-too-distant future, the entire contents of the Library of Congress might be stored on a device the size of a postage stamp.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Phase change memory-based 'moneta' system points to the future of computer storage

A University of California, San Diego faculty-student team is about to demonstrate a first-of-its kind, phase-change memory solid state storage device that provides performance thousands of times faster than ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Seagate to buy Samsung's hard disk drive business

Seagate is buying the hard disk drive business of Samsung in a $1.38 billion deal that also gives the South Korean electronics manufacturer a nearly 10 percent stake in Seagate.

Technology / Business

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Intel announces third-generation SSD 320 series

Intel announced today its highly anticipated third-generation solid-state drive (SSD) the Intel Solid-State Drive 320 Series (Intel SSD 320 Series). Based on its industry-leading 25-nanometer (nm) NAND flash ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Toshiba introduces enterprise-class solid state drive family

Extending its position in the enterprise storage market, Toshiba Corporation today announced its new family of enterprise-class solid state drives (SSDs). Developed to meet the market's demand for higher ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

ThumbDrive inventor out to prove he is no one-hit wonder

Henn Tan could have ruled the global market in what became the ubiquitous USB flash drive that helped consign the floppy disk to the dustbin of technological history.

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 12

Faster, more durable flash memory sought out for project

USB flash drives have become nearly ubiquitous and are now dressed out as everything from Winnie the Pooh to hand grenades. But to further expand flash memory’s use in such applications as the main memory of a computer, ...

Technology / Semiconductors

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