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As expected, Samsung has started the production of its 2.5-inch 256GB SSDs. The read/write rates also seem to increase from the previous 200/160 MB/sec to 220/200 MB/sec. Based on the multi-level cell (MLC) technology, Samsung claims the SSD to be as fast as a 15,000 RPM HDD without the “noise, size, power and heating [...]

 
After making their very first SSDs for the consumers, Intel has turned its focus to target the enterprise market with its high performance SSDs for servers. Housed in a 2.5-inch shell, X-25E Extreme SATA based 32GB and 64GB SSDs will bring all the benefits to the server station.
Intel claims that its SSDs increases the [...]

 
You got to do a lot of hard work to sell your wares to the customers. Now take this example where the marketing manager of Samsung SSD shows us what their SSDs can endure. He drops it from a 3 storey building and the drive still boots up. Hit the play button if you don’t [...]

Toshiba has joined the league with Samsung to launch their own 2.5-inch 256GB SSD (THNS256GE8BC). As with Samsung, Toshiba’s SSDs are also Multi-level Cell (MLC) technology based and support SATA II interface. However, being developed with the same technology, SSDs from Toshiba have a read/write speed of 120/70 Mbps which is slower than Samsung SSDs [...]

 
Jumping on the SSD bandwagon, Intel also announced the beginning of shipment of its 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch SSDs. The X18-M and X25-M SSDs will be available for both laptops as well as desktops and are based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash technology. Intel’s SSDs outperformed the conventional HDDs by nine times giving a read [...]

 
Netbooks with SSD will cost a bit cheaper now. Samsung have announced the development of a low density yet high performance SSD which will be mass produced from September. These SSDs are just 30 percent of the size of 2.5-inch SSDs and are highly cheap and efficient to manufacture.
Users will however, have to suffice [...]

 
Asus has officially announced the new line of Eee PCs. All the new Eee PCs (Eee PC 1000, Eee PC 1000H and Eee PC 901) will run on Intel’s Atom processor, will have the convenience to choose from Windows XP or Linux and even an option of going with SSD or HDD. One of the [...]

 
Samsung has created another feat. They have developed a 2.5-inch SSD which can clock read/write speeds of 200MB/s and 160MB/s respectively. The SSD is developed on MLC technology supporting SATA II interface and just measures 9.5mm in thickness.
The development of SSD on MLC means same reliability as SLC SSD but at a cheaper cost of [...]