Samsung Electronics will offer a range of faster SSD drives for consumers from next month, including a zippy new 1TB drive meant for everyday use. The company's "840 EVO lineup" will be two to three times faster than its existing 840 ...
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Enterprises are gaining the ability to turn existing storage platforms over to flash even as solid-state media remains mostly a tool for caching and for applications with special requirements. On Wednesday, Hitachi Data Systems is ...
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Western Digital plans to acquire sTec to boost its presence in the market for enterprise solid-state drives. The two companies have signed a definitive agreement under which sTec will be acquired by HGST, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...
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Apple and Samsung have both released new laptops that utilize the power management capability of Intel's latest chip -- and to great result. But these are top-of-the-food-chain systems -- sleek and thin, with power-efficient SSDs and a ...
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Registration is open for the 2013 Flash Memory Summit, to be held August 13-15 in Santa Clara, CA; the Conference Concepts were announced today. The annual event brings together top flash memory technologists and business leaders to discuss ...
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If Apple has anything to say about it, the future of the notebook will be long and healthy. And it will be exemplified in the new versions of the MacBook Air, announced during Apple's?WWDC 2013?keynote, and?available immediately.? Based ...
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Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi introduced the next iteration of Apple's Mac operating system on stage during Monday's?Worldwide Developers Conference?kick-off. Federighi began his presentation with a sly ...
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Apple was first to use Intel's Thunderbolt I/O interface on laptops. The company also chose to create its own version of a hybrid drive for Macs rather than use one of several all-in-one offerings available from third party vendors. So ...
Many enterprise storage systems include two or more types of hard disk drives, with data automatically moved between those two tiers of storage. The same concept has now been applied to two types of SSDs. Dell has modified the ...
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Intel is showing off what it called the "world's fastest thumb drive," which uses Thunderbolt technology to provide breakthrough data transfer speeds compared to flash drives that plug into USB ports. Intel's prototype Thunderbolt thumb ...
Sony today introduced the VAIO Pro 11, the world's lightest 11.6" Ultrabook laptop, and the VAIO Pro 13, the world's lightest 13.3" touch Ultrabook , perfect for the mobile professional or student on the go who demands premium performance ...
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Razer today unveiled Razer Blade, the world's thinnest gaming laptop. The Razer Blade, measuring in at just 0.66-inches thin, packs more power-per-cubic-inch than any other laptop in the world.The Razer Blade is powered with a future 4th ...
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MICROSOFT today has launched its long awaited Windows 8 Surface Pro tablet computer in Australia. It will be available from today in two configurations: a 64GB standalone version for $999 and a 128GB standalone version priced at $1,099. ...
Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., (TAEC) today announced that the company has developed second generation 19 nanometer process technology that it will apply to mass production of 2-bit-per-cell 64 gigabit ...
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Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is late to the party in Australia, and expensive, but it will satisfy those who want a tablet with the compute grunt of an ultrabook PC. The Pro is due to ship here this month, but has been available in the ...
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