Consumers looking for an affordable SSD can take a look at Kingston’s new SSDNow V200 Series. The new series from Kingston is touted to be cheaper and twice as fast than its previous V100 Series SSDs. Supporting SATA Rev 3.0 6Gb/s, the V200 Series SSDs come in sizes of 64GB. 128GB and 256GB and boasts a sequential read / write speed of up to 300 / 230 MB/s.

Kingston will sell the V200 SSD as a standalone drive or as an upgrade kit consisting of the SSD, a cloning software, SATA and power cables and 3.5-inch mounting brackets or 2.5-inch external enclosure.

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Samsung has announced a new SSD series that will enable consumers to enjoy faster data transfer speeds. Clad in a premium brushed aluminum enclosure, the 830 Series SSD supports SATA 6Gb/s interface that makes it two times faster than Samsung’s current top-end 470 Series SSD. With the new interface, the 830 Series SSD can reach a speed of up to 550MB/s (read) and 300MB/s (write).

Additionally, to allow a seamless upgrade, the new SSDs will also be sold in an upgrade kit that will come with a copy of Norton Ghost, a bracket to install SSD in a desktop and the requisite cables.

Samsung will reveal the price of the SSDs closer to its October launch.

Kingston has announced that they’re shipping their fastest SSD supporting SATA Rev. 3.0 6Gb/s. The HyperX SSD is their fastest that ships with the SandForce controller, apt for high performance users. The 2.5-inch SSD comes in two capacities — 120GB and 240GB and boasts a sequential read/write speed of 555/510 megabytes per second.

The SSDs are sold for £206 (120GB) and £392 (240GB) and comes with a three-year warranty.

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SanDisk has unveiled couple of new SSDs that can be used in upcoming ultra-thin notebooks as well as tablets. The U100 SSD is aimed for use in ultra-thin notebooks and comes in capacities starting from 8GB to up to 256GB. The U100 supports the SATA III interface and boasts a sequential read speed of up to 450MB/s and write speed of 340MB/s. SanDisk will provide the U100 SSDs in variety of form factors, including Half-Slim SATA SSD, mSATA, mSATA mini, 2.5” cased and customized modules.

The iSSD on other hand, can also be integrated in ultra-thin notebooks but is more inclined towards the use in tablets. The i100 iSSD is the smallest and the fastest 128GB SSD that supports SATA III interface and gives a sequential read/write speed of 450/160 MB/s respectively. The iSSD storage capacity ranges from 8GB to 128GB.

SanDisk is currently sampling both the SSDs and is slated for mass production in Q3 2011.

Intel has announced its next-generation SSDs based on 25-nanometer NAND flash memory. The 320 Series SSD builds on Intel’s X25-M SATA SSD that now comes with higher capacity models and about 30 percent price reduction compared to Intel’s previous generation.

Targeted at consumers and business users, Intel says an upgrade from a HDD to SSD will jump up the performance by whopping 66 percent.

Intel SATA II equipped SSD 320 Series will come in capacities of 40GB, 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, 300GB and 600GB versions and will deliver a read speed of up to 270MB/s with write speed reaching up to 220MB/s.

As for reliability and security, Intel has developed its own proprietary firmware and controller whereas adopts 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard for data security.

The prices based in 1000-unit quantities are as follows: 40GB at $89; 80GB at $159; 120GB at $209; 160GB at $289; 300GB at $529 and 600GB at $1,069.

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Toshiba has introduced a new SSD series that offers the advantages of a high-performance SSD in a very compact form factor. The Blade X-gale SSDs are just 2.2mm thick and comes in capacities ranging from 64GB to 256GB.

These RAM-like modules can be a boon to computers that are restrictive in space. Despite the small size, the MLC-based Blade X-gale SSDs boast a maximum sequential read/write speed of 220/180 MB per second.

To give a better perspective, these new SSDs are 42 percent thinner than conventional mSATA SSDs.

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Kingston has expanded its SSD range with the introduction of SSDNow V+100 series. Designed for businesses, the V+100 series brings an always on Garbage Collection function that is OS independent and clears out redundant data from the drive to prevent performance degradation.

Additionally, the drive is now 25 percent faster, thanks to an improved controller and offers sequential read/write speeds of up to 230/180 MB per second.

The drives price start from $220 and comes in capacities ranging from 64GB to 512GB.

Samsung today announced that they’ve started mass producing 3.5-inch 100GB and 200GB SSDs meant for the enterprise market. These new SSDs are touted to be beneficial to businesses and help them to lower their total cost of ownership over time as it increases performance and decreases power consumption.

The SSDs are based on 40nm single-level-cell (SLC) NAND flash chips and support 3Gb/s SATA interface, allowing SSDs to process random read commands at 47,000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) and write commands at 29,000 IOPS, which is 130X and 80X higher when compared to a 15K RPM HDD.

Enterprise-centric features include lower power consumption (about 30 percent lower compared to HDD storage), end-to-end data protection function, advanced data encryption and faster read/write speeds with 200GB SSD achieving about 260MB/s sequential read speed and 245MB/s as a sequential write speed.

EMC will be the first recipient of these drives.

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Seagate has launched its SSD-HDD Hybrid drives in the Indian market. The 9.5mm 2.5-inch Momentus XT offers a unique way to give consumers the speed of SSDs and affordability of HDDs by integrating 4GB of NAND flash and up to 500GB HDD capacity.

By combining both SSD and HDD onto one drive and using Seagate’s Adaptive Memory technology, the Momentus XT identifies the data pattern and copies frequently accessed data onto the flash memory for quicker access.

This way, Seagate says the Momentus XT Hybrid drive is 100% and 80% faster than conventional disks running at 5,400RPM and 7,200RPM respectively.

Seagate will sell the drive in three storage capacities – 250GB, 320GB and 500GB for Rs. 6,800, Rs. 7,400 and Rs. 8,100 respectively.

Samsung has announced a new 512GB SSD that employs toggle-mode DDR NAND helping high-end notebooks to achieve greater performance and reliability. The toggle-mode DDR structure coupled with SATA 3.0Gbps interface gains a max. sequential read speed of 250MB/s and read speed to up to 220MB/s, which is three times faster than conventional HDDs or can copy two 4GB DVDs in under a minute.

Furthermore, Samsung has developed a low-power controller for toggle-mode DDR that increases performance without increasing power consumption and continuously monitors user’s frequency of use to automatically enable low-power mode, extending notebook’s battery life.

The 512GB SSD uses 30nm 32Gb chip and comes with 256-bit AES encryption, Windows 7 TRIM support.

Mass production of the 512GB SSDs will start from next month.

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