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How To Buy A Hard Drive: An Essential Guide

12:00PM August 26, 2011 | Loyd Case - MaximumPC

Do you need gigabytes or performance? Laptop upgrades or a screaming new gaming PC? We walk you through what you need to know to pick the right storage solution for your PC. More »

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Samsung New Double-Speed SSDs

9:00PM August 17, 2011 | Brent Rose

Sammy just took the lid off of a set of new solid state drives that promise a significant speed boost from their already peppy previous line of SSDs. They look good enough to eat. More »

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SSDs About To Get 7x Faster If Phase-Change Memory Catches On

8:40AM June 4, 2011 | Max Behrman

Hard drives are all about how much you can store and how quickly you can store it. And this soon-to-be-unveiled phase-change memory drive is expected to up the ante quite a bit. More »

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SSD + Hard Drive = OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid

1:55AM June 4, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Oh, to have the lightness and speed of an SSD, but with the capacity of a hard drive! OCZ, the mind-reader it is, has made a component that will offer up to 1TB in HDD space, and up to 120GB in SSD. More »

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How To Enable TRIM On Your Mac’s Solid-State Drive

1:40AM May 20, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

Enabling TRIM is one of the best ways to maximize the life of your solid-state drive, but OS X doesn’t support it out-of-the-box. Here’s an easy way to get better performance and longevity out of your Mac’s SSD. More »

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Intel SSDs Will, In Fact, Get Smaller And Faster This Year

2:07AM April 30, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The roadmap for this year’s Intel SSDs has been exposed, and some will use a manufacturing technology as small as 25nm, meaning more efficient drives in bigger capacities or smaller form factors for you. [Engadget]

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Crucial’s New SSDs For Laptops

3:35PM April 28, 2011 | Brian Lam

I let most component news hit the floor but I can’t seem to get enough of new SSD news because of how much I want my laptop to stop ticking and clicking and whirring. Crucial’s new M4 line of 2.5-inch SSDs just came out. Cult of Mac says: More »

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SSD Showdown: 4 Top Drives Reviewed

10:40AM April 20, 2011 | Nathan Edwards

Breaking the 250MB/s barrier with no moving parts

If the automotive world progressed as fast as the computer industry, the old joke goes, we‘d all have $US1000 cars that get 400 miles to the gallon, never need maintenance, and crash catastrophically every eight weeks for no reason. Ancient punch lines aside, comparing this year’s storage options to those of even half a decade ago would be like entering a Bugatti Type 35 in the Preakness Stakes. More »

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Is SSD Worth It? Performance Tests With MacBook Pro

3:00AM April 20, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

Solid State Drives cost more per gigabyte than standard hard drives but promise better performance, durability and more. Just how much more? Macworld tested a couple of MacBook Pros (one with typical HDD and the other upgraded with SSD) to find out. More »

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OS X Lion Will Take Better Care Of SSDs

1:41PM February 26, 2011 | Adrian Covert

OS X Lion Will Use TRIM commands when dealing with SSDs, which will extend the life of the storage devices found in all MacBook Airs. [HardMac via Cult of Mac] More »