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• Seagate to demo 12Gbps SAS SSD

  Seagate said it will demonstrate a 12Gbps SAS solid-state drive (SSD) at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase this week.

• HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centers

  Western Digital company HGST on Tuesday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive for use in enterprise storage servers, delivering twice the throughput compared to current 6Gbps SAS technology.

• Free Tools to Wipe Your Drives Securely

  Your PC's hard drive is packed with your personal data. So when you want to get rid of your system or drive, you should permanently erase your storage device drives before you get rid of them. If your drives are encrypted and you trust the encryption protocol (full disk encryption is pretty safe), all you have to do is delete your encryption keys. If you want to safeguard your privacy further--and prevent data theft down the road--here are a few cheap and simple tools designed to wipe your hard drive, solid-state drive, or USB flash drive thoroughly before you dispose of it.

• Intel ships new SSD 330 series, but limits it to 180GB storage

  Intel's streak of solid-state drive announcements has continued with the company announcing a new line of SSD 330 drives for mainstream computers but with maximum storage capacity of only 180GB.

• Intel drives up SSD storage capacity to 800GB

  Intel on Thursday announced new solid-state drives with storage of up to 800GB, which is a new high in capacity for the company's SSD products.

• Samsung eyes next generation of NAND to lower laptop cost

  A new type of NAND flash storage for consumer electronics that can store data more densely might lower the cost of devices such as tablets and thin "ultrabook" laptops, according to Samsung.

• Intel ships SSDs that help laptops boot faster

  Intel has started shipping a new series of small-capacity solid-state drives (SSDs) that can be used in laptops to reduce boot times and load applications more quickly.

• PCIe SSD consortium, product test lab created

  The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is forming a consortium charged with developing an interoperability test suite for Non-Volatile Memory Express Consortium (NVMe) PCIe-based solid-state devices (SSDs).

• The Byte - Chrome OS update, SSD’s bleak outlook, tablet race results, Android 5.0 Jelly Bean

  Today on The Byte: Amazon’s Kindle Fire is catching up to Apple’s iPad; Google hopes to fixed dropped Wi-Fi on its Chromebooks; and Researchers think that SSDs have a bleak outlook.

• SSDs have a 'bleak' future, researchers say

  As the circuitry of NAND flash-based, solid-state drives shrinks, performance drops precipitously -- meaning the technology could be doomed, according to new research.

• Encrypted solid state drives protect laptop data

  Vendors are touting solid state replacement drives as a way to protect corporate data in the event of a laptop being lost or stolen, and to boost performance at the same time.

• SSD prices will fall below $1 per GB in 2012, says IDC

  The price for SSDs (solid state drives) that are going into PCs are expected to fall below US$1 per gigabyte during the second half of 2012, further boosting adoption, market research company IDC said on Monday.

• Skip data tiering, go directly to all-SSD storage, Forrester says

  Companies may want to skip using a tiered storage architecture and move directly to an all-solid-state-drive (SSD) architecture, according to a new report from Forrester Research.

• Thai floods hit Q4 hard drive production, says research firm

  The devastating floods in Thailand will cause a 28 percent quarter-on-quarter drop in hard disk drive (HDD) production in the fourth quarter, potentially affecting notebook production in early 2012, research firm IHS iSuppli said on Monday.

• Can you put an SSD and HDD in a laptop?

  After reading The Best of Both Worlds: An SSD and a HDD, George McCluney asked if it's possible to combine both drives on a laptop.