Intel has thrown a bone towards customers who bought their 320-series SSDs by retroactively increasing warranty length from 3 to 5 years. From Intel: Confident in the enhanced reliability features of it’s recently introduced third-generation solid-state drive (SSD), Intel announced it has extended its limited warranty for the Intel® SSD 320 Series from three years [...]

New USB flash drive models combine USB 3.0 speed with proven durability. Corsair, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced the shipment of the Flash Voyager® USB 3.0 family of USB flash drives. The new Flash Voyager USB 3.0 models deliver SuperSpeed USB 3.0 performance, with [...]

New family offers SATA 3 performance for near SATA 2 pricing Corsair, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced the Force Series™ 3 family of solid-state drives. The newly announced Force Series 3 models take advantage of the new SATA 6.0 Gb/s (SATA 3) interface to [...]

New WD AV-GP 2.5 TB, 3 TB Hard Drives Offer Cool-Running, Unrivalled Storage Capacity for Reliable 24/7 Video Streaming in IPTV, DVR, Media Center PC and Surveillance Systems Western Digital, a leader in the desktop, mobile, high-capacity enterprise and consumer markets for hard drives, today announced the addition of 2.5 TB and 3 TB versions [...]

Memory titan Samsung announced today that they have begun production of DDR2 multi-level cell (MLC) flash chips, an industry first. A press release from Samsung says that the chips are manufactured with “advanced 20 nanometer (nm) class process technology”, though the company won’t divulge further details as the methods and process node size are likely [...]

Tech news site Digitimes is reporting that March’s earthquake in Eastern Japan is proving to be quite disruptive for the supply lines of hard drive manufacturers. Two of the largest hard drive manufacturers, Western Digital and Hitachi have reported that supplies are running low because of a shortage microchips required to manufacture these devices. Although [...]

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — OCZ Technology Group, Inc.,  a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today unveiled the Agility 3 and Solid 3 SATA III SSD product lines. The Agility 3 and Solid 3 are designed to cater to speed-seeking enthusiasts in search of the best value for performance. [...]

Seagate  today unveiled the world’s first 3.5-inch hard drive featuring 1TB of storage capacity per disk platter, breaking the 1TB areal density barrier to help meet explosive worldwide demand for digital content storage in both the home and the office. Seagate’s GoFlex Desk products are the first to feature the new hard drive, delivering storage [...]

Lexar Media, a leading global provider of memory products for digital media, today announced the immediate availability of Crucial m4 solid-state drives in capacities ranging from 64GB to 512GB. Designed for both business customers and general consumers, the Crucial m4 SSD product line incorporates Micron’s industry-leading 25-nanometer (nm) NAND flash technology in a 2.5″ form [...]

OCZ Technology Group, Inc.,  today unveiled a new addition to the highly-awarded Vertex 3 SATA III Series. The Vertex 3 Max IOPS edition drives extend the company’s industry-leading Vertex 3 SSD product line to support users that require greater transactional throughput. “Following the successful launch of our Vertex 3 SATA III 6Gbps solid state drives [...]