Entries in Flash Memory (6)

Tuesday
Mar292011

(PR) New Patriot LX PRO Series Obliterates Current SDHC Class10 Performance Classification

I have been real happy with my Patriot SDHC 16GB Class 10 card but these new NAND flash cards from Patriot Memory take you to the next level. The Pro Series of the LX line have increased the the transfer speeds to 20MB/s, twice that of a typical Class 10 SDHC card. The high-speed transfer speeds ensure photographs and video are written to the memory card instantly to the Patriot LX PRO Series

Click to read more ...

Friday
Dec312010

PR:Intel’s 34nm NAND flash memory now featured in its Solid State Drives

High-performance storage for notebook and desktop PCs – now on 34nm NAND flash memory featuring the Intel® Solid State Drive (Intel® SSD) Toolbox

clip_image002

Intel® Solid State Drives (Intel® SSDs) represent a revolutionary breakthrough that delivers a giant leap in storage performance. Intel Solid State Drives are designed to satisfy the most demanding gamers, media creators, and technology enthusiasts. These new drives bring a high level of performance and reliability to notebook and desktop PC storage, at a fraction of the cost of the previous generation of Intel® SSD products.

Wait less. Do more

Why wait for a traditional hard disk drive to spin up? Unlike traditional hard disk drives, Intel SSDs have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution that also offers faster system responsiveness. And for laptop PCs, the lower power needs of Intel SSDs translate to longer battery life and lighter notebooks. Higher performance with more durability means you can be truly mobile with confidence.

Better by design

Drawing from decades of memory engineering experience, and now on new, industry-leading compute-quality 34nm NAND flash memory manufacturing processes, Intel® Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives are designed to deliver outstanding performance, featuring the latest-generation native SATA interface with an advanced architecture employing 10 parallel NAND flash channels equipped with multi-level cell NAND flash memory. With powerful Native Command Queuing to enable up to 32 concurrent operations, Intel Mainstream SATA SSDs deliver higher input/output per second and throughput performance than other SSDs on the market today – and drastically outperform traditional hard disk drives. These drives also feature low write amplification and a unique wear-leveling design for higher reliability, meaning Intel drives not only perform better – they last longer.

Featuring the Intel® SSD Toolbox with Intel SSD Optimizer

The Intel® SSD Toolbox with Intel® SSD Optimizer provides a set of applications to easily manage the health and optimize the performance of your Intel SSD. The Intel SSD Toolbox includes a powerful set of management, information, and diagnostic tools, and is designed to work best with 34nm Intel SSDs. The Intel SSD Optimizer utilizes the new ATA Data Set Management Command (Trim Attribute) to help maintain your SSDs performance at "fresh-out-of-the-box" levels, and is specifically designed to run with Microsoft Windows* 7. The Intel SSD Optimizer also works with Microsoft Windows Vista* and XP* operating systems as well.

Two options. No worries

Intel Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives are available in either 2.5in (Intel® X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive) or 1.8in (Intel® X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive) standard hard drive form factors. And all Intel Mainstream SSDs are tested and validated on the latest Intel-based mobile and desktop platforms for your peace of mind.

Thursday
Dec162010

CompactFlash allies rally against dominant SD | Deep Tech - CNET News

2010-12-16_1236CNET’s Stephen Shankland wrote a great article comparing the current technology and future advancements in both SD and CF memory choices. He has already suggested that SD has “vanquished xD and Memory Stick configurations especially in the digital camera a video segments. However, he comes up with some great arguments about where CF memory fits in this regard and why it might win out in some situations.

As our storage needs keep growing and the need for faster transfer rates continually increase CompactFlash memory could hold the the position of the only current product design that can meet many professional photographer’s needs. Setting up CF in RAID like designs can help to collect larger files sizes more quickly allowing for higher frame rate video capture than we enjoy today. If any of this peaks your interest, click on the link below to read more…

CompactFlash allies rally against dominant SD | Deep Tech - CNET News

Friday
Sep172010

Kingston Announces its First USB 3.0 Flash Drives: Data Traveller Ultimate Series

image We are starting to see some USB peripheral devices coming out that support the new USB 3.0 specification.

Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is shipping its first USB 3.0 Flash drive. The Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Flash drive takes advantage of the faster USB 3.0 specification that has up to ten times the data transfer rates of the current USB 2.0 specification.

The DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 has a read speed of 80 MB/sec. and a write speed of 60MB/sec. It is available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities. The combination of speed and size makes it ideal for data backup or fast transferring of large files including music, photos and videos. To ensure backwards compatibility, Kingston is also including a Y cable as some USB 2.0 ports require it to initialize USB 3.0 drives.

image

Monday
Aug162010

Intel Showed its Q4 SSD Roadmap and We Are Excited!

Intel Released it Q4 Roadmap that shows some very exciting SSD (Solid State Drive) products. These products will be based on 25nm NAND flash memory chips and sold under the Intel X25-M, X18-M (mainstream) and X25-V (value) brands. The four drives will continue to carry the company internal codename “Postville”, with the same feature set as the 34nm Postville SSDs, except for the 25nm NAND chips, native data encryption, SMART, and higher performance.

Click to read more ...

Tuesday
Oct132009

Expanding your horizons on using you USB flash drive

 

image If you have multiple computers that you need to share data between quickly and easily then I am sure you have probably already used a flash drive for this purpose. While I lean more towards on cloud storage to move data between machines especially in different locations, I still find this one use of a flash drive to be extremely valuable. Bill Detwiler, Head Technology Editor at Tech Republic, has put together a little video that talks about some other uses for a USB flash drive that you may not have thought about.