Solid-state drive company STEC this afternoon posted mixed financial results for the fourth quarter.
Also, like the Apple, but unlike the Toshiba, Lenovo offers a roomier, 256 GB solid-state drive for extra money.
XE300M22-A01US carries a 2.5GHz, Sandy Bridge-era dual-core chip on top of the usual 4GB of memory and 16GB solid-state drive.
The troubles continue to mount for solid-state drive maker OCZ Technology.
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The solid- state drive (SSD) capacity and random-access memory (RAM) in the base configuration of the Modbook Pro are also being doubled.
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To drive future growth, the company has a pipeline of products for solid-state drive controllers, digital entertainment, cloud computing and smart energy.
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In pre-production testing of the Modbook Pro, Modbook Inc. found that solid-state drive options offered a number of clear advantages over mechanical drives.
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The standard internal storage option on the Modbook Pro will be a 64GB solid-state drive, with upgrades possible to increase internal SSD storage to 480GB.
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Shares of solid-state drive maker STEC are down sharply in late trading Tuesday after the company provided disappointing guidance for the fourth quarter.
On the inside, too, the new MacBook Pro offers potentially better specs, with options for twice the RAM and a more spacious 768GB solid-state drive.
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The troubled solid-state drive company OCZ Technology Group this afternoon disclosed that it has sharply reduced its staff as it works to refocus the company.
Fusio-io shares are trading sharply higher Tuesday morning after Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty raised her rating on the solid-state drive maker to Overweight from Equal Weight.
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It's difficult to thrive in the solid-state drive world.
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As the latest addition to Mushkin's Atlas family of mSATA drives, the new solid-state drive delivers up a colossal 480 gigabytes (GB) of storage capacity on a single mSATA module.
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The SEC notes that STEC shares rallied more than 800% from January to August 2009 as the company posted higher revenues, sales and margins for its products, in particular its ZeusIOPS solid-state drive.
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The top 10 also includes American Superconductor (47.5%), which provides power grid technologies, solid-state drive maker STEC (34.4%), and MIPS Technologies (32.5%), which has a 3-year EPS growth rate of 71%.
Shares of solid-state drive maker OCZ Technology Group are trading sharply lower late Wednesday after the company warned that results for its second quarter ended August 31 will be well short of previous guidance.
World's First 480GB mSATA Solid-State Drive: Mushkin's 480GB Atlas mSATA Solid State Drive, built on the SandForce SF-2281 SSD processor with unthrottled IOPS, was first announced at Mushkin's December 4, 2012 press event, and will be officially released at CES 2013.
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One driver for Seagate in the transaction is its move into NAND-Flash based products: the company is nearing the launch of a second-generation enterprise solid-state drive offering, and Luczo says a third-generation product under development jointly with Samsung should arrive in 2012.
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The Inspiron 9 has the requisite wi-fi connection, a lightweight solid-state hard drive and Intel 's zippy new Atom processor.
The Z Series comes exclusively in solid state drive (SSD) models-up to 512GB.
Apple, for example, has also frustrated hard-disk drive makers by featuring solid state drives across its line of notebook computers and eliminating spinning disks in the MacBook Air, its thinnest, lightest model.
Intended to support both the enterprise and rugged markets, these products are expected to deliver more than 400, 000 random write transactions per second, scale up to more than 5TB of pure solid state storage capacity, ensure enterprise-class drive life endurance, and offered in SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, and PCIe interfaces.
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Seagate is still under continued pressure from solid state drive manufacturers in the enterprise, where Flash-based storage is cost prohibitive but faster and more chic.
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Intel announced a new SATA interface enterprise solid state drive (SSD) that uses 25 nm multi-level cell flash memory (this is 2 bit per cell technology referred to as MLC).
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"Toggle DDR provides a faster interface than conventional NAND using an asynchronous design, delivering the benefits of high-speed data transfer to a wider market, such as for solid state drive (SSD) applications including enterprise storage, mobile phones, multimedia terminals and consumer products, " said Masaki Momodomi, Technical Executive, Memory product, Toshiba Corporation.
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Besides, one of the most important aspects of a solid state drive is its firmware and OCZ insists that's totally home-cooked.
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The rapid adoption of fourth generation (4G) smartphones, tablet PCs and solid state drives is expected to drive demand for a broader range of high-performance NAND solutions.
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Control of power utilization in these data centers will drive new tiered storage approaches with solid state storage combined with HDDs and with new non-volatile memory using either flash memory or new approaches such as MRAM.
Western Digital Corp. (WDC) : A lot of investors are sour on this California-based firm, a longtime leader in the hard drive and digital storage business, because of the shift away from hard drives toward solid-state and flash drives.
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