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• Toshiba ready for 2008 in a solid state

  Japanese memory chip manufacturer Toshiba announced yesterday that it will be showcasing a 128 GB NAND-flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January.

• Fujitsu adopts flash memory for new tablets

  Tablet PCs probably get dropped more than other computers, so Fujitsu has created two machines that store data by using flash memory rather than traditional hard drives.

• Storage giants to push hybrid hard drives

  Several major hard-drive vendors have announced that they will work together to promote and develop a new type of storage: hybrid hard drives.

• Apple slashes cost of SSD MacBook Air

  Apple has reduced the cost of an SSD-based MacBook Air by around AU$700.

• Seagate set to enter flash-based hard drive market

  Seagate Technology, best known as a maker of magnetic hard drives, plans to make storage components based on flash memory as well, according to CEO Bill Watkins.

Blogs (3)

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  Opening the floodgates on missing drives

  News headlines about portable storage devices going missing are as common as muck, but the problem could be even more widespread than you suspect.

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  Five reasons SSDs are great

  It's rare that we see a genuinely new technological paradigm land on retail shelves, but solid state drives, or SSDs, are one such technology. Here are five reasons we're looking forward to their ascendancy.

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  Memory Box splits up backup headaches

  South Australian distributed backup start-up Memory Box splits up users' data and spreads it in encrypted form across many customers' PCs. But can the company build trust amongst customers who could be worried about their data being stored on other people's hard drives?

Features and Case Studies (41)

• Toshiba delays 1.8-inch hard drives

  Toshiba will be releasing its 30GB and 60GB 1.8-inch hard drives later than expected.

• Hybrid drive to extend notebook battery life

  Microsoft and Samsung showed off a prototype hard drive on Monday that can record data while idling, a twist that has the potential to significantly cut power consumption in notebooks.

• Seagate drives, both big and small

  Hard drive maker Seagate plans to boost the capacity of its PC and server drives and deliver a 1-inch drive for consumer electronics, the company said.

• A closer look at Serial ATA

  Find out how the new Serial ATA drive standard works.

• PDA memory storage basics

  There is more than one type of memory used in Palm-based PDAs. Before deciding on a PDA purchase, review the extended storage options presented here.

Reviews (139)

• Start-up brings hard drive to the masses

  A new hard drive from Cornice is small enough to fit into MP3 players or cameras but costs less than memory cards and other tiny drives.

• Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)

  Intel's X-25M solid-state drive enjoys several advantages over both conventional disk drives and other SSDs, including improvements to data throughput, boot time and notebook battery life. If you can forget about the cost, this is by far the fastest data drive available.

• Toshiba touts data density record with new drive

  Toshiba says it has earned the right to say it's more dense than its competitors.

• Sony sage looks into the future and sees...

  Commentary: Sony's Nobutoshi Kihara helped invent the transistor radio, the VCR, and the digital camera. Asked what will be big next, he replied, "Memory." What does that mean?

• Hard Drives: Behind the numbers

  In the world of hard drives, size matters, but do the other specifications match up? Our tests yield some surprising conclusions that can make choosing a hard drive a whole lot easier.

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