Category: Solid State Drives

• Intel Unleashes Next-Gen Enthusiast Desktop PC Platform at Gamescom Over 300,000 visitors attend Gamescom in Cologne, Germany and Intel’s here at the event this week showing off our newest enthusiast desktop platforms. The PC remains the number one platform for gaming from a volume, revenue, and growth perspective1 and Intel takes the segment seriously. Such a big gaming show is a great venue to announce availability of the unlocked...
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• Bringing UC Berkeley into the ‘Intel NUC Age’ Intel works with hundreds of universities and colleges around the world on everything from research to recruiting to consultation.  These are symbiotic relationships with technology being the star and students (and Intel) benefiting.  Last week, Berkeley’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) computer labs converted hundreds of old systems to hundreds of Intel® 3rd gen Core™ processor based “Next Unit of Computing”...
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• How I switched to an SSD with free software and no CD-ROM drive A lot of great tools exist to help clone drives. Acronis, Ghost, and many other examples are available for the user to do an easy and clean copy of their system from one drive to another. But when I got my first-gen Intel X25-M SSD, I had two real problems: A) I didn't want to spend any additional money, and B)...
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• Buying an SSD – What Should You Be Looking For? So you've decided to buy an SSD (or solid-state drive)! Good for you. Very suave. SSDs have been the latest craze among PC owners seeking to enhance the overall performance and user experience of their current PCs. PC owners are attracted to the SSD's promise of faster data access, lower power consumption, ruggedness, and its complete operational silence as compared...
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• A look at the future of the transistor from the Solid State Devices and Materials Conference (SSDM) I'm writing this on the plane from Narita airport to Portland as I return from  giving the plenary talk at the Solid State Devices and Materials conference (SSDM), in Sendai Japan.  It is always exciting to visit these device conferences to see the myriad of new options that are being discussed for next generation transistors.  Before I get into the technical...
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• Top Ten Reasons You Might Have an SSD in Your System 10) You always say yes to new OS and Applications patches without having to think about it9) You never bother to use hibernate again8) You don't hesitate to open a 10MB PPT file to find that one slide and follow with "See I told you so"7) You forgot what color your Disk Drive indicator light is6) You have forgotten what...
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• Why would a 32GB SSD cost more than an 80GB SSD? The landscape of solid-state drives is growing. Many companies, Intel included, have a growing portfolio of drives for sale. Various people much smarter than I have talked about how "Not all SSDs are created equal," but there's one fundamental difference at play that most technologists understand, and not all consumers do. In fact, it's a difference that's pivotal to the...
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• Don Verner Don is a Senior Applications Engineer in Intel's NAND Solutions Group and has worked with nonvolatile storage technologies since 1988. Don helped pioneer flash memory as BIOS storage in desktops and mobile systems as well as defining a new flash memory part used in these applications. While in Japan in 1995, Don helped advance flash memory usage in digital photgrapy...
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