solid state drive

Study finds the task to be very difficult; overwriting or crypto-erasure seem the best methods for sanitizing SSDs Until a university study emerged last week, few experts suspected that it's more difficult to erase data stored on solid-state drives (SSD) than that on hard disk drives (HDDs)...

BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mobile World Congress—SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today announced that Acer has selected the 32-gigabyte (GB)1 SanDisk® SSD P4 modular solid state drive for use in its Iconia Tab Windows 7 tablet. SanDisk SSD P4’s...

Link Removed It will allow me to do demanding things with less overhead . Less heat while converting videos to dvd . It is not that large 64GB but plenty large to run the software and system I intend to use . I will have standard hard drives for the more mundane backup tasks :) Now just a few...

CES 2011: Whats New in PC Components - PCWorld Link Removed The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) isn't just all tablet, cameras, and laptops; there's plenty of news for the PC component geek, too, ranging from tiny flash drives that pack a lot of heat to the hand-held gaming console...

IMPORTANT NEWS I am pleased to announce that Windows 7 Forums is fully upgrading its hardware capabilities to the maximum possible threshold. We will be increasing our memory, processor, and networking capabilities to an extent that will meet current requirements and exceed future requirements...

Just ahead of IDF, Intel made available an updated version of the SSD Toolbox, an application which enables people to manage their Intel solid state drives, keeping them in shape through various optimizing utilities. The new Toolbox, version 2.0, adds two new features, the System...

Viking Modular's SATADIMM jacks an SSD into your memory slot -- Engadget Viking Modular Solutions, a division of Sanmina-SCI Corporation, and leading manufacturer of innovative DRAM modules and flash solutions, today announced that its SATADIMM is available for immediate customer...

Often times, throughout the forum, in videos, and in documentation, we find ourselves discussing complex methods of solving seemingly irresolvable computer problems. Throughout these exchanges, much technical data and “geek-speak” is often used to solve an outlying technical problem that is...

I found a Solid State Drive Giveaway contest via digg.com If you decide to join, please add my screenname (Hotbread) as the referrer Link Removed due to 404 Error Ps: I hope I'm not breading rules, just thinking that Windows 7 is an awesome OS with an SSD drive ;)

In a recent Link Removed as the second most exciting type of product that has hit the market. There is no doubt that SSDs have gained a lot of market share with enthusiasts and even mainstream notebook users, and 2010 is going to be a big year for the technology. As SSDs continue to gain...

Intel has released Link Removed of the SSD Toolbox, which includes a range of applications for managing the health and optimal performance of 34nm Intel Solid State Drives. This version fixes problems with unusable system restore points, as well as improving functionality.

Washington - Windows 7 provides more ways to keep your data safe than any previous version of Windows. And that's good news. For despite the claimed reliability of hard disks and solid state drives, data loss due to drive failure is still an all-too-... Link Removed - Invalid URL

Intel has released the Link Removed due to 404 Error, which includes a range of applications for managing the health and optimal performance of 34nm Intel Solid State Drives.

I installed an OCZ "Vertex" 60GB SSD as my C: Drive with a magnetic drive for files and backup. I now get to the Sign-on screen in 20sec. And everything launches super-quick. I like it! Only one glitch: The SSD did not like AHCI mode at all and locked-up repeatedly. I reconfigured the BIOS back...

When I attempt to delete certain files or folders I am denied permission and prompted: "requires administrators permission". But I am the Administrator! And I am signed in as such. How do I fix this problem? Richard P.S. I will be installing a Solid-State Drive later today - OS & apps. -...

Solid state drives are nothing new. But until recently, large capacity drives were extremely rare outside of high performance servers and embedded industrial applications due to their astronomical cost. Fortunately, flash prices have dropped to the point where large capacity SSDs (big enough to...

Any one out there using an SSD please relate your experiences. Anyone with views on this topic please join in. I imagine they will get cheaper, better and there will be more of them soon especially for desktops but how good are they? Any problems with them? :confused::)

So Ive got a bday coming up and am lucky enough to have a 60GB Apex series solid state drive in the mail. I dont have a problem with it yet. Was looking for some feedback on someone who is running one of these 1st gen drives with Windows 7 x64. I understand XP do not mix well with these and they...

Hi, Windows Vista Home 64bit Abit motherboard running intel chipset and Core i7 6 gigs memory 2 solid state disks in stripe as C running fine 2 one-TB samsung f1 in mirror (one drive failed) I had a d drive in a mirrored configuration when one of the drives went bad. I don't have a backup...