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Reinvented Hard Drive May Be Faster Than Solid-State

Kit Eaton — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:38:27 -0400

The era of the hard drive appears to be coming to an end, with the swift rise of solid-state storage that brings with it lower power consumption and higher speeds. But wait: British scientists have just reinvented the hard drive itself and chopped the power use while boosting the speed. A lot.

How Expensive is Samsung's Viral Video Super PC?

Chris Dannen — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:10:40 -0400

This week Samsung released an "edgy" viral video to appeal to the youngsters and get people talking about its solid-state hard drives. At the risk of indulging the electronics company by doing just that, I've broken down the cost of the super PC built in the video to satisfy the nerdy desire to imitate them. In the video, a team of "hip" British lads arrange 24 of Samsung's 256GB SSDs in a RAID array to achieve blinding throughput speeds of 2GB a second. Throughput is vaguely defined as the speed at which data moves between the PC's components--and 2GB a second is a recklessly fast rate that would make a pre-rehab Lindsey Lohan blush.

MSI U115 Is World's First Hybrid Storage Netbook

Kit Eaton — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:26:06 -0500

The MSI U115 looks pretty much like any other netbook, but purring away inside its smallish frame is an exclusive data storage system: It's the world's first netbook on the market with hybrid storage.

The Solid State Revolution

Paul Hochman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:30:48 -0500

On Christmas morning, or soon thereafter, your laptop will go silent. So will your family's video camera. The quiet will spread worldwide. In Delhi, the huge data centers that store your customers' information will fall into an electronic hush. Even your TiVo will go mute. There will be no more flywheels. No more fans. No more hard-drive platters spinning for data, gorging on electricity, and clattering to an apocalyptic stop whenever the power goes out. Because moving parts are dead. The new state of our union will be: solid.

Special Report: Hard Drives Not Dead Yet

Chris Dannen — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:45:07 -0400

A couple of weeks ago, I gave you the lowdown on solid state drives: what they're for, how they work, and where they're headed. In the name of equal time, I also got the scoop on the future of traditional hard drives, in case you were worried that your beloved, clackety drive of yore was going the way of the telegraph. Indeed, hard drives aren't going anywhere: in fact, they're just getting bigger and better, and more high tech by turns.