David Murphy

Not to be outdone by the impending release of OCZ’s high-performance Vertex series of solid-state drives, A-DATA has announced a new 256 GB SSD that features the same 64 MB of internal cache as OCZ’s product.

Patriot's latest solid-state drive is the third generation of products in its Warp line of SSDs. But a convenient add-on bundled with the 256 GB SSD borrows a page--and design flaw--from Western Digital's first batch of Velociraptor hard drives.

By now, the Internet has been abuzz with a new marketing video from Samsung. In it, a group of intrepid Samsung marketers take the company's new 256 GB solid-state drive and hook it up to 23 of its closest friends. But how do they achieve their results?

A one-terabyte solid-state drive? That sounds almost as crazy as the device's boasted speeds--600 MB/sec reads and 500 MB/sec writes. A Belgian Web site was able to get its hands (and benchmarks) on OCZ's monster SSD array, and here's how it stacked up!

When you're going to use a new solid-state drive, you can expect to hook it up to your computer one of two ways: USB or eSATA. But new hybrid SSDs from Buffalo and Transcend pack both connections into a single product for speed *and* portability!

Fudzilla is reporting that OCZ's Vertex series of solid-state drives has started shipping. These SSDs, complete with a 64MB on-board cache, are rumored to rival the very best of Intel's solid-state technology.

Are modern solid-state drives ready for the enterprise situations? The market is beginning to combat the high price-to-performance ratios for solid-state technology, but that doesn't mean that SSDs themselves are ready to leap into business servers.

Intel hasn't announced it yet, but the company's newest SSD product has leaked to a few European online stores-- a 64 GB version of the company's X-25E line of solid-state drives.

With an 80 GB SSD priced at nearly $400, will the move be enough to woo consumer interest toward Intel’s speedy solid-state technology?

If the operating system runs bigger than Vista, consumers could say “thanks, but no thanks” to the marriage of solid-state drives and Netbooks.

As the market for NAND Flash stabilizes in the latter half of the year, consumer and enterprise demand for solid-state drives is expected to surpass hard drives.

Details are scant, but Intel has leaked the news that eight new solid-state drives are on the way come summertime.

A weakened Flash memory market is expected to be hit hard by dropping sales figures and growth rates for consumer devices in 2009. And don’t expect solid-state drives to save the day.

And the coolest part? You can switch between the seven supported RAID modes with a simple hardware switch. Take that, bulky RAID configuration screens!

There's no doubt that SSD drives are improving day to day. One major area that SSD manufacturers are focusing on is drive capacity.

Which version of Windows will help push your SSDs to maximum speeds? Nothing you’d be able to find in the stores right now!