Intel’s new SSDs have just launched with an eye to taking on the high end of the SSD market. Does Intel’s previous track record in SSD reliability make them a must-buy? More »
SSDs represent an easy way to add some oomph to your computing experience, but they’re still in the relatively high priced zone, especially on a per GB basis. We’ve highlighted cheap SSDs recently, and Amazon’s currently in that game too selling Crucial’s SSD ranges for a fair price; at current exchange rates this 128GB SSD would cost around $165. [Amazon via OzBargain]
It’s time to ditch those tedious moving parts in your laptops hard drive and stick a high capacity SSD in there. This Crucial M4 offers half a terabyte of storage with a 6Gbps SATA connection for super fast transfer speeds. For $665 including shipping, your laptop and work efficiency will thank you. [B&H Photo Video via OzBargain]
My new years resolution — stop putting up with the interminably slow boot times of my desktop’s conventional hard drive. With these new solid state drives from Mushkin, I may actually keep my resolution past January. More »
Seagate’s newly upgraded Momentus XT drive now sports 750GB of storage and 70 per cent faster performance. The drive claims boot-up and application launch speeds comparable to full SSD’s despite only having 8GB of solid-state storage for only $US245. More »
It doesn’t seem like all that long ago that SSDs were insanely expensive and ludicrously small. There’s no word on what Samsung’s newly announced SSD drives will cost, but they’re certainly not small — or slow. More »
Apple uses multiple vendors in interchangeable ways to make a single product, but rarely if ever do performance specs change when this happens. Not so with the MacBook Air! The Toshiba bits that are inside my Air, from October, are actually slower than those in the latest batch, which house an SSD blade from Samsung. Grumble, grumble. [TUAW]
We previously thought that OS X wouldn’t see TRIM support until Lion came out later this year. But as it turns out, Apple slipped it in to the 10.6.6 build currently shipping with new Macbook Pros. [Apple Insider]
OS X’s secure delete, which overwrites data multiple times so snoops can’t recover them even if they have access to your hard drive, turns out to not work with SSDs. The problem? SSD write algorithms are different, because the physical media is different, but also to preserve its lifespan. The end result though is 2/3 of a file can be recoverable. [ZDnet] More »
