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G.Skill has taken a new version of the Indilinx Barefoot drive controller and paired it with Intel 32nm NAND flash to make the Falcon 2. Boasting claimed speeds of 220/110MB/s read/write, we've found its performance is surprising!
11th Mar, 14:52 OCZ Technology has launched its first SSD to retail under $100 - the 32GB Onyx. The question remains - is it cheap enough for the storage space on offer? [50]
23rd Feb, 14:24 The CompactFlash Association has unveiled the latest version of the memory card standard, which increases the addressable storage space to 144 petabytes. [21]
19th Feb, 11:01 Kaspersky has been granted a US patent on its latest creation - a hardware-based anti-virus system designed to sit between the motherboard and the storage device. [19]
18th Feb, 10:56 NEC has come up with a new technique for increasing the speed of data transfer on a USB 3.0 bus - getting more than three times the throughput of conventional controllers. [30]
8th Feb, 13:07 Benchmarks carried out on external storage devices show that USB 3.0 offers impressive speed gains over its predecessor - but that eSATA is still the speed king. [25]
3rd Feb, 17:16 SilverStone's newly announced HDDBoost pairs an SSD with a hard disk, delivering SSD speed for TBs of storage. [45]
2nd Feb, 13:14 Western Digital were the first to introduce the new, larger sector, however Seagate tell us it will be uniform across the industry [34]