Toshiba has announced the launch of a new type of flash storage which is either a huge step forward… or back. The company’s new Write-Once SD card can store up to 1GB of content. But you can only load it up once. After that you can’t erase or rewrite the card. In other words, Toshiba has just re-invented the CD-R….

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It’s been a few months since the SD Association approved the new UHS-I standard for speedier flash memory cards. Now we’re starting to see actual products based on the spec head to market. Toshiba has introduced a new  line of SDHC UHS-I memory cards which are do to start shipping in November. The cards will have read speeds up to…

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Viking is best known for producing removable flash storage such as CompactFlash and SD cards. But now the company is throwing its hat in the laptop SSD space with a new line of 2.5 inch solid state disks. The company will produce 2.5 inch SSDs for enterprise and consumer use. The enterprise version will feature a SCSI 6gb/s connection, while…

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Toshiba has bumped up its line of NAND flash based SSDs (PDF link) to include 128GB solid state disks that are designed for netbooks and low profile notebooks. The 128GB drive comes in mSATA and half-slim SSD versions. It can handle sequential write speeds up to 70MB/s and sequential read speeds up to 180MB/s. The new modules are 1/8th the weight…

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