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When we reviewed it last month, Samsung's 840 Pro Series solid-state drive wasn't exactly cheap—the 256GB version carried an incredible $270 price tag. Well,...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

On the heels of AMD and Apple, Western Digital has chimed in with its latest quarterly results. The hard drive maker says it raked...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

The market for solid-state drives has grown rapidly over the past few years, and that trajectory appears set to continue. According to research firm...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing

Micron has a new SSD for the enterprise crowd. The P400m combines familiar technologies with a few new twists to provide a high-endurance drive...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

Bad news: Microsoft has announced that its Windows 8 upgrade promotion will end on February 1. From then on, prices for Windows 8 and...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Displays Gaming Windows

We covered a whole boatload of new hardware launches at CES last week. You'd think the flow of releases would taper off for a...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Cases Storage Input devices

The mobile market is growing, and so is the number of PC component makers looking to stake out new territory. Adata is dipping into...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing Personal tech

Although SSD prices are falling, hard drives remain cheaper by about a factor of 10. Western Digital expects that delta to persist for the foreseeable...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing

Would you believe it's been nearly two years since we took our first look at Crucial's m4 solid-state drive? That's an eternity in...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing

No question about it, OCZ's Vector solid-state drive is fast—the drive performed extremely well in our benchmarks. Now, for its next trick, OCZ is...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

2.5-inch mobile hard drives with 1TB capacities are hardly new. Western Digital launched one way back in July 2009, and we've seen other models...

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Eat your heart out, Thunderbolt. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has announced a "supplement" to the USB 3.0 specification that will raise data rates...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Storage Systems Miscellaneous

Post-holiday sales are still popping up around the web, and as it happens, Newegg has one running today and through the weekend. Among the...

Type: News story Tags: Power Storage Memory Input devices Gaming

We've clocked the latest 2.5" SSDs at nearly 550MB/s in sequential transfer rate tests. That speed isn't far off the peak theoretical transfer...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

Intel's 335 Series is pretty sweet. The SandForce-powered solid-state drive uses the latest 20-nm NAND and is only a step behind the very...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Marvell is an important player in the SSD business. While its name doesn't appear on any drives, its controller technology resides inside popular SSDs...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

The Christmas shopping rush is officially over, and you know what that means: clearance sales. Newegg has a big honkin' one of those running now,...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage Mobile computing Gaming

It's probably already too late to shop online for physical Christmas gifts, but digital downloads are still fair game. And as it happens, Amazon has...

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