by : Niranjan Thilak posted August 6, 2008 at 10:38 am
Micron announced that they will be shipping their RealSSD ,a faster Solid State Drive [SSD ], by the end of the year.The RealSSD is twice as fast as the SSD’s present now in the market.Two models of the RealSSD series has been announced by Micron , C200 and P200.
The P200 [Performance edition ] is having 2.5 inch form factor and is based on single-level cell (SLC) NAND .Capacity of the P200 series will vary from 16GB to 128 GB with read and write speed of upto 250MB/s.It achieves sub-millisecond latency while a typical enterprise HDD has an average latency of approximately eight milliseconds, dramatically reducing the data seek time inherent with conventional HDDs.
Designed for the notebooks, the C200 on the other hand is available in both 2.5 inch formfactor and 1.8inch formfactor built on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND Technology.It has a reading speed of 250MB/s and writing speed of 100MB/s.Capacity is 256GB for the 2.5inch form factor whereas it ranges from 32GB to 128 GB for 1.8inch formfactor
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by : Niranjan Thilak posted July 25, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Buffalo unvieled the fastest Blu-Ray recorder [as of now 
] with write capability of 8x on Single Layer BDR.But the burning speed for the dual layer BDR is 2x only.
The Recorder is available as BR-816U2 [external ] and BR-816FBS [internal ].The External version can be connected to the PC using eSATA or USB while the Internal one uses SATA.These can also record DVD±R at 16x and CD-R at 48x.
The Price is still high 275€ [ 23,000 Indian Rs ] for the external and 240€ [20,000 Rs ] for the internal drive.
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by : Niranjan Thilak posted February 1, 2008 at 12:59 pm
SanDisk introduced the new 32 GB ,16 GB SDHC cards and 8 DB SDHC plus card.These cards can be used in almost all present camcorders and digital cameras and they offer faster access speeds [ which is up to 15MB/s read write compared to the previous cards in the Ultra II series 10MB/sec read-write speed.
The 32 GB and 16 GB SDHC cards in the ULTRA II line has a SanDisk MicroMate USB 2.0 reader packed with it, so that users can access the card data.The 8 GB SDHC Plus card meanwhile has an USB adapter built into it.The SD-plus-USB feature allows the user to read the data without an external USB adapter.
The 32 GB SanDisk Ultra II SDHC card is bundled at $349.99 while the 16 GB is priced at $179.99.The SanDIsk Ultra II 8 GB SDHC Plus card will have MSRP of $99.99.These speedy cards will be available by April.
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