http://flashstoragedrives.com Everything Flash, Solid State, and Portable Storage Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:23:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [ad#Adsense-1] From the corporate world - "Sun today announced a new entry-level addition to its family of Unified Storage arrays. The Sun Storage 7310 array allows smaller IT shops to deploy both solid-state disk and hard disk drives in the same box; it also offers clustering capabilities." This looks like a good interim ... http://flashstoragedrives.com/ssd/sun-unveils-entry-level-ssd-hybrid-storage-array [ad#Adsense-1] Looks like more good news for Windows 7:  performance with an SSD drive is faster than Vista. Not that I''m surprised. To be honest, I think Vista should just be excluded from all future benchmark tests, and go away as fast as possible. Via Gizmodo: "A lot of the hype around ... http://flashstoragedrives.com/ssd/windows-7-vs-windows-vista-ssd-edition [ad#Adsense-1] That dire warning comes from SanDisk's CEO Eli Harari. The capacity of flash chips has doubled 19 times in 14 years to 64 billion bits, currently. But Harari says they're "running out of electrons." The short story is that the number of electrons crammed inside of flash storage now makes them ... http://flashstoragedrives.com/ssd/flash-storage-is-about-to-hit-a-brick-wall [ad#Adsense-1] There's fast, and then there's stupid-fast, and a new hybrid SSD drive will fall into the latter category if it can live up to the speed claims being put out by its manufacturer, who says a single DDRDrive X1 can hit a staggering 300,000 IOPS. The new drive combines 4GB of ... http://flashstoragedrives.com/ssd/hybrid-ssd-drive-promises-fastest-performance-yet [ad#Adsense-1] If you've been keeping up with the Development of SSD drives as they become more and more mainstream, you may have noticed that there is still some ways to go before SSD's can become as prevalent as regular magnetic hard drives. The biggest sticking point I'm seeing right now is ... http://flashstoragedrives.com/flash-drives/ssd-drive-speeds-a-second-look-required [ad#Adsense-1] This is a tiny drive with a retractable USB connector, which makes it so you don't have a cap to lose, which is nice. Comes with 16 GB storage, it's very inexpensive, and gets a 4.5 star review on Amazon. Click Here To Read more...(SDCZ6-016G-A11, Retail Package) http://flashstoragedrives.com/flash-drives/sandisk-cruzer-micro-16-gb-usb-20-flash-drive Well this is certainly interesting. Apparently,  PNY has released a 2 GB USB Flash Drive that is preloaded with the full Ghostbusters movie. From the press release: "2GB USB preloaded with movie for download PNY Technologies and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announce the launch of a new 2GB USB preloaded with Sony ... http://flashstoragedrives.com/flash-usb-drives/usb-flash-drives-now-available-with-full-length-movies Here's a fantastic presentation for those of you that may be new to the tech world, or if you are just getting up to speed on all the fancy new gadgets out there. It explains what a flash drive is, its benefits, and uses. http://flashstoragedrives.com/flash-usb-drives/managing-your-data-flash-drives ComputerWorld has this to say regarding the state of SSD: "Most observers agree that solid-state disk (SSD) will eventually overtake magnetic disk drives as the storage medium of choice. SSD is lighter than traditional hard disk drives, is faster, is more durable and consumes less power. Still, SSD doesn't measure up ... http://flashstoragedrives.com/flash-drives/ssd-not-yet-ready-for-mainstream-consumers [ad#Adsense-1] This USB flash drive combo has been my absolute favorite for a long time, hence the reason for it being my first review. I’ve owned many iterations of the drive, ever since they came out with the first 256mb capacity flash drive. The features have stayed the same, except for ... http://flashstoragedrives.com/flash-storage-drives/product-review-of-the-week-victorinox-swissmemory-2-gb-usb-flash-drive