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Fujitsu to Offer Solid State Drives Notebooks

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation today introduced the first pen-enabled notebooks with solid state drives (SSDs). As of today, the LifeBook P1610 and LifeBook B6210 are now available with either 16GB or 32GB SSDs.
The 2.2-pound LifeBook P1610 convertible touch screen notebook and 3.2-pound LifeBook B6210 touch screen notebook are now offered with two flash-based SSD configurations, [...]

Continue Reading  |  Posted on March 19, 2007  | 

SanDisk Launches 2.5-inch Solid State Drives

SanDisk today added a 32GB, 2.5-inch Serial ATA solid state drive (SSD) to its notebook product line. The new drive is compatible with most mainstream notebooks and is a direct replacement for hard disk drives.
“The SanDisk 2.5-inch SSD brings the extreme durability, outstanding performance and low power consumption of solid-state flash memory to the entire [...]

Continue Reading  |  Posted on March 13, 2007  | 

Intel Gets into Notebook Solid State Drive Game

Intel Corporation announced today its entry into solid state drives with the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive. Based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces, the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive. The Intel Z-U130 will ship in 1GB to 8GB varieties and feature 28 MB/s reads and 20MB/s write times.
“Solid state drive [...]

Continue Reading  |  Posted on March 12, 2007  | 

Video: Seagate CEO Talks About Mobile Storage

 

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Seagate CEO Bill Watkins chatted with notebooks.com about the future of mobile storage. He wouldnât say what kind of notebook he uses, but did say he will probably never buy a desktop computer again. Watkins also questions whether Solid State Dives ma
 
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Continue Reading  |  Posted on February 6, 2007  | 

Samsung Launches First Notebook and UMPC with NAND Flash-based Solid State Disk

Samsung will release the world’s first PCs embedded with a 32 GB NAND flash-based solid state disk.This marks the first time that NAND flash has moved into a commercial mobile computing application and is a breakthrough that will pave the way for replacing hard disk drives with NAND flash-based memory disks.
The Samsung Q1, an ultra-mobile [...]

Continue Reading  |  Posted on May 19, 2006  | 

Laptop HDD Going the Way of the Floppy

George Scalise, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), says flash memory chips will replace notebooks’ hard disk drives within five years. Samsung has already demonstrated a notebook that uses a 32 GB flash drive. That company predicts 30% of all notebooks will run on flash memory by 2008.

According to Scalise, once the price of [...]

Continue Reading  |  Posted on April 18, 2006  | 

Thumb Drives With LCD and Cursor

The Royal EZVueUSB 2.0 flash drive has a scrollable window that displays the names of the files stored on the drive. The company also makes an SD reader with similar functionality and form factor.

Continue Reading  |  Posted on March 28, 2006  | 

Mission Impossible Flash Drive

Kingston DataTraveler

This drive encrypts your data and self destructs after 25 failed password attempts.

The Kingston DataTraveler Elite Privacy Edition is the world’s first USB Flash drive that secures 100% of data on-the-fly via 128-bit hardware-based AES encryption.

There are 256 MB, 512 MB, 1GB, 2GB and 4 GB versions, with prices ranging from $48 to $347.
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Continue Reading  |  Posted on March 17, 2006  | 

Notebook sans Hard Drive

PC World Reports on a Samsung prototype notebook that uses 32GB of flash memory in place of a hard drive. Faster boot times, no moving parts, but a $960 price tag.

Samsung Electronics has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk, a flash-memory-based replacement for hard disks, and is showing it here at the CeBIT [...]

Continue Reading  |  Posted on March 11, 2006  |