Are you worried about the FBI kicking down your door in search of all your digital contraband? If so then it’s time to upgrade to RunCore’s new InVincible SSD drive with its pair of red and green self-destruct buttons that will keep you one step ahead of prying eyes.
My computer takes too long to boot up. Around a minute and 18 seconds, to be precise. Which is why I want a solid state drive. But I don’t want to pay ~$US400 for 256GB of storage. Enter Seagate’s Momentus X Hybrid drives, which promise near-SSD speeds, but with giant HDD storage — and not-so-giant prices.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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]
