Think your network is fast? Getting a gigabyte-sized movie over your local wireless network to your hard drive in a few seconds is old hat. Now there’s a network that can push a 2-hour, high-definition movie to a computer a mile away in less time than it takes to read… … Read More
Hard drive shipments continue to slide as SSDs gain momentum
Just when it seemed the hard drive market had fully recovered from the devastating floods that hit Thailand in 2011, the venerable storage media has another threat on its hand: competition from solid state drives. Shipments of PC hard drives are forecasted to decline by eight percent in 2013 from… … Read More
OCZ Vertex 5 solid state drive expected to launch next month
OCZ Technology is pushing forward with a new solid state drive despite hitting a rocky patch last year that resulted in the company letting go nearly a third of their global workforce and discontinuing some 150 product variations. The new SSD is being called the Vertex 5 and may launch… … Read More
OCZ Vertex 5 solid state drive expected to launch next month (update)
Update: OCZ has confirmed the existence of a new solid state drive in the pipeline that will utilize an updated version of the Barefoot 3 controller alongside 20-nanometer NAND flash. The name of the new drive as well as the launch window is still up in the air, however. … Read More
Crucial’s M500 SSD now available for less than $0.60 per gigabyte
Back in January during the Consumer Electronics Show, Micron unveiled the M500 solid state drive as a successor to the dated M4. The line, which uses the latest 20-nanometer multilevel cell (MLC) NAND flash technology, is now available for purchase at less than $0.60 per gigabyte. … Read More
Microsoft creative director on always-on console: #dealwithit
We’ve been hearing for some time now that Microsoft’s next generation game console could require an always-on Internet connection and that games must be installed to the hard drive. We’ve been skeptical of such a requirement as recent as late last month but based on a recent tweet by Microsoft… … Read More
