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3:42AM Mark Wilson | OCZ’s new Colossus drives are among the first SSDs designed for desktops, and they’re the very first to store up to 1TB of data. Oh, and on top of all that, they work pretty well, too. More »
OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds
3:42AM Mark Wilson | OCZ’s new Colossus drives are among the first SSDs designed for desktops, and they’re the very first to store up to 1TB of data. Oh, and on top of all that, they work pretty well, too. More » 
Hardware
MSATA: It’s Like SATA But Smaller
7:00AM Mark Wilson | You’ve heard of SATA. It’s the technology used for the majority of today’s hard drives and people generally like it. But SATA wasn’t designed for tiny portables. That’s why the guys behind SATA are introducing mini-SATA or mSATA for short. More »
Hardware
OCZ Firmware Update Fixes “Dirty” SSDs In Its Spare Time
4:16AM John Herrman | Modern SSDs might not “fragment” in the same way your old 9GB FAT32 drive did, but they’ve got their own, possibly worse problems. OCZ, along with Indilinx, say they’ve got a “garbage collection” firmware that’ll clear things right up. More »
Hardware
Massive 1TB OCZ Colussus SSD Priced, Ships Soon
5:30PM Danny Allen | Taiwan’s OCZ Technologies is reportedly just three weeks out from shipping its Colossus solid state drive range, which will come in 128GB to 1TB capacities. And courtesy of Engadget, we now have pricing. More »
Hardware
Intel Updates SSD Line: A Little Bit Faster, A Little Bit Cheaper
3:15AM John Herrman | It’s been about a year since Intel’s quick-but-pricey Intel’s X-series SSDs started the market, so it’s about time for refresh. And hey, look: It’s a fresh pair of 34nm X25-M drives! (Spoiler: They’re almost exactly like the last ones.) More »
Hardware
Lexar Media Crucial SSDs Will Force Some Speed Into Your Netbook
7:25AM Dan Nosowitz | Well, we were impressed by Corsair’s 240/170MB/s read/write speeds, but the new Crucial line tops it with a 250MB/s read and 200MB/s write. Even better, the Crucial SSDs are available right now. More »
Hardware
Corsair’s New Extreme SSD Line Is Blazingly Fast
11:45AM Dan Nosowitz | Corsair just announced their new Extreme Line of SSDs, coming in 32/64/128GB capacities. So they’re not going to win a storage space award, but these little guys are fast—Corsair’s claiming read speeds of 240MB/s and 170MB/s write speeds. More »
Computers
1:00PM Nick Broughall | HP’s first Mini netbook to come running Linux – the Mini 110 – has landed in Australia for the bargain price of $499, although you’ll want to upgrade the storage on it pretty quickly. More »
HP’s Mini 110 Linux-Based Netbook Now Available
1:00PM Nick Broughall | HP’s first Mini netbook to come running Linux – the Mini 110 – has landed in Australia for the bargain price of $499, although you’ll want to upgrade the storage on it pretty quickly. More »
Hardware
Hard Rectangular Drive Is Faster, More Efficient Than SSD
10:00AM Adrian Covert | British scientists have developed a new breed of hard drive that uses not spinning discs, but rather a rectangular platter and millions of moving data heads to read/write data. In theory, this could mean transfer speeds of 500 MB/s. More »
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