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A solid state drive uses solid state memory to store data. Solid state in this context means that the drive has no moving parts in contrast to electro-mechanical hard drives which are currently dominating the computer world.

Modern solid state drives have several advantages and disadvantages when compared to hard drives. The advantages include a faster random access time, faster startup, silent operations and the ability to endure extreme conditions in which hard drives would normally fail. The disadvantages include the higher price per Gigabyte, performance degradation over time (which is countered by trim and garbage collection) and lower capacities than hard drives.

Major advancements are currently made in the development of new Solid State Drives that reduce the negative aspects of using a SSD in comparison to a standard hard drive.

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• ioSafe Signs UK Distribution Agreement with Micro-P for its Award Winning Range of Disaster Proof Storage

  
  Your Story — Authority: 442
  January 31st 2012 -the technology leader of disaster proof hardware, has announced a new partnership with one of the leading IT trade distributors in the UK. This new alliance is effective immediately and sees Micro-P distributing the full range of ioSafe’s fireproof and waterproof data storage products throughout ...
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• Aleratec Announces CFast to SATA Adapter for HDD Duplicators

  
  Using Windows Home Server - WHS and the Connected Digital Home — Authority: 433
  Aleratec also announced this week the Aleratec CFast to SATA Adapter that makes three of its most popular hard disk drive duplicators compatible with CFast cards.
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• Connectria Hosting Achieves “Off the Chart” Operational Efficiency with Cloud-Based Storage Solution from Nexsan and CommVault

  
  Your Story — Authority: 442
  Global Managed Hosting Company Sees Significant Improvement in Backup and Recovery Efficiency and Reliability over Previous Solution THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., January 26, 2012 — Nexsan®, a leading independent provider of disk-based data storage systems, today announced that Connectria Hosting, a global managed hosting ...
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• Panasonic intros two new compact laptop with the Let’s Note SX and NX Series

  
  Akihabaranews.com — Authority: 110
  Panasonic just announced this morning its new 12.1 notebooks with the SX and NX Series. Both models comes with a 16:10 ratio screen with a 1280×800 resolution or optional 16:9 one with a nice 1600×900 resolution and optional 720p web camera.Depending of your specification of choice Panasonic will be able to offer ...
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• Firmware day!

  
  Uranium Blog — Authority: 105
  It seems January is a good month for SSD manufacturers to release fixes and updates. The first was Crucial, now its the turn of Samsung and OCZ. Continue reading →
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• Kingston SSDNow V+200 SATA III Solid State Drives

  
  iTech News Net — Authority: 470
  Kingston announced its new SSDNow V+200 solid state drives, which are “ideal high-performance upgrade solution for the performance minded yet cost-conscious business or home user”. The latest SSDNow series uses SATA 3.0 6Gbps interface and utilizes SandForce SF-2281 processor for enhanced performance with up to ...
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• Dell Latitude E6420 XFR : Business Laptop Review

  
  The Place for IT mania — Authority: 109
  Review Dell Latitude E6420 XFR Most consumers and business people have a vast number of choices when it comes to laptops. But when your work requires a certain level of security to protect the data within, there are far fewer options available. Dell has manufactured such a laptop, a special line of ...
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• Umm…can I have your old SSD?

  
  Standalone Sysadmin — Authority: 402
  The thought occurs to me that there is a lot of concern about the health of SSDs by admins who don’t have a lot of experience with them. I don’t have a lot of experience with them either, but I’ve spent a decent amount of time learning how they work, why they fail, and reading about the various failure modes. ...
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• Kingston announced SSDNow V+200

  
  Uranium Blog — Authority: 105
  AnandTech posted an interesting news about Kingston. Oddly enough, theres nothing available about this release in the companys press room. The manufacturer is going to release a "low cost" SandForce drive for people looking for a an affordable SSD. Continue reading →
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• pureSilicon Unveils Kage Series USB Flash and SATA Solid State Drives for Enterprise

  
  ModCool — Authority: 147
  Since when did the enterprise market get a sense of style? Thats the first question that comes to mind when spying pureSilicons new line of enterprise-focused storage devices, the Kage K1 USB Flash Drive and the Kage K1 SATA SSD, both of which bring a little pizazz to the storage sector. The "impossibly thing" (4.5mm) ...
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• pureSilicon Kage K1 USB and Kage K1 SATA SSDs

  
  iTech News Net — Authority: 470
  pureSilicon Kage K1 USB pureSilicon announced its Kage series solid state drives for enterprise and power users who look for high-performance. The Kage series includes the Kage K1 USB that uses USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface, and the Kage K1 SATA with SATA 6Gbps interface. pureSilicon Kage K1 SATA The K1 USB is ...
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• pureSilicon Kage K1 flash drive and SSD

  
  Gadget Folder — Authority: 127
  PureSilicon has announced their portable storage solution, the Kage K1 USB flash drive and the Kage K1 SATA enterprise-class SSD. The solid state drive is designed for use at light enterprise users and workstations. The PureSilicon Kage K1 USB flash drive is utilized SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectivity and capable to ...
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• The lowdown on Ultrabook offerings

  
  just.yoga — Authority: 114
  Intel’s latest partnership inititatives with notable PC notebook manufactures aims to deliver a thin-and-light notebook for US $1000 or lesser. “What’s happening is the normal evolution of the laptop form. It’s going from thick and heavy to thin and light,” said David Daoud, research director of personal ...
  2 weeks ago

• CES 2012 : The Victorinox SSD – A Swiss Army Knife or SSD – It’s Both!

  
  Using Windows Home Server - WHS and the Connected Digital Home — Authority: 433
  One of the coolest things I saw at CES was the Victorinox SSD – it’s a Swiss Army Knife and an SSD – how cool is that?
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• Amazon’s DynamoDB shows hardware as means to an end

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 821
  Somewhat lost in the greater story of Amazon Web Services’ new DynamoDB NoSQL database is that the new service runs atop a solid-state storage system. However, by abstracting those SSDs underneath a higher-level application service, AWS has once again demonstrated its cloud wisdom by illustrating how new hardware ...
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• Victorinox SSD Knives

  
  Gear Patrol | The Definitive Men's Resource — Authority: 603
  So-called “cloud services” hope to make transferring digital data via physical devices akin to cave painting in the near future. That hasn’t stopped pocket-tool legend Victorinox from evolving the classic Swiss Army Knife to house the latest SSDs and transfer protocols. Their new solid state drive line features ...
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• OWC Radio #63 – The Post-CES Show

  
  Other World Computing Blog — Authority: 409
  We’re home from the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show and while some might be a little worse for wear, it was a great show. Join us as we discuss what we introduced, what we saw, and what we think this year in electronics is going to bring. OWC Radio is a monthly, forum-based podcast focused [...]
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• CES 2012 Rewound, Recapped, and Reviewed

  
  Other World Computing Blog — Authority: 409
  Our second year at CES was a big success and while you may have read other sources’ accounts of the show, I thought you might (since you likely are a regular reader and interested in all things OWC) like a summary from our perspective. Now, if you’ve never been to a show of this magnitude [...]
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• pureSilicon announces Kage K1 SATA and USB SSDs, up for pre-order now

  
  SEO Consultant — Authority: 140
  It seems like only yesterday that pureSilicon released its new Nitro N2 and Renegade S4 SSDs . Today, the company followed up on that announcement with the Kage K1 USB SSD, and the Kage K1 SATA SSD. The former is a USB 3.0-based SSD drive that measures around 4.5mm in thickness and offers up to 240GB of MLC space. ...
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• pureSilicon announces Kage K1 SATA and USB SSDs, up for pre-orde...

  
  Hobbies Fun & entertainment - fun-entertainment.marc8.com — Authority: 139
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