Today, Samsung announced that they had started mass production of 1.8″ and 2.5″ Multi-Level Cell (MLC) Solid State Drives (SSD) in 64GB and 128GB capacities. They should be quite a bit cheaper than previous Samsung SSD offerings (and as mentioned back in May, Samsung plans … Read more
Last week, we mentioned an article published on Tom’s Hardware that stated that flash memory-based Soild State Drives (SSDs) actually hurt your battery life rather than help it. It caused quite a bit of controversy around the internet – SSDs have no moving parts and … Read more
Earlier this week, we saw the pricing of the 8.9-inch Intel Atom-powered Acer Aspire One over in the UK as well as in Germany. NCIX.com (make sure it’s toggled to Canada and not the US!) has a couple of Aspire One models available for pre-order. … Read more
Tom’s Hardware has posted an article that’s generating a lot of buzz. They are saying that flash-based Solid State Drives (SSD) don’t help the battery life of your laptop. Instead, they are saying that it in fact decreases it. Given that SSDs don’t have the … Read more
OCZ Technology Group has announced a new line of low-cost Solid State Drives (SSD). They are calling it the “Core Series” and the prices are incredibly competitive and affordable, compared to what we’ve seen in the past. They use a Serial ATA (SATA) interface at … Read more