SanDisk is launching several new flash storage modules for notebooks and mobile devices. First up is the company’s new U100 SSD with read speeds up to 450MB/sec and write speeds up to 340MB/sec. The U100 is a SATA III card designed for thin notebooks and mobile devices. It will come in a number of different form factors including 2.5 inch…

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For this week’s I-have-too-many-promotional-USB-flash-drives giveway, I’ve rounded up a couple of the funny-shaped flash drives I picked up at CES this year, as well as one that I actually grabbed a few years ago. The SanDisk drive is a 4GB USB flash drive with a kind of cheap plastic feel to it. The drive on the right which is shaped…

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SanDisk has launched a new integrated solid state disk (or iSSD) which it describes as smaller than a postage stamp and lighter than a paper clip. The new iSSD comes in 4GB to 64GB capacities. Of course, the new SSD isn’t much smaller than a standard SDHC card, and it’s actually quite a lot larger than a microSD card. But…

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USB Flash drives are continuing to shrink. Pretty soon you won’t be able to spot a drive once it’s plugged into your computer — which is probably just going to make drives that much easier to misplace when you’re not using them. But until we get to that point, we’ll have to settle for the new SanDisk Cruzer Blade, which…

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I still remember the first SD card I ever purchased. It was around 9 or 10 years ago, and that roomy 16MB SD card let me fit an extra 4 songs on my MP3 player! I forget what I paid for it, but that SD card probably cost me close to $40. For that kind of money, you can get…

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SanDisk is introducing its second generation of low cost solid state disks for netbooks today. The pSSD P2 and S2 SSDs offer vRPM (virtual revolutions per minute) of around 9,000 which makes them almost twice as fast as a 5400RPM hard drive. SanDisk’s SSDs also use a new technology called nCache which allocates up to 320MB of disk space for…

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Solid state disks are kind of the next big thing, right? They have no moving parts, like hard drives, and are both more durable and offer potentially faster read and write speeds than hard drives. Sure, they’re far more expensive at the moment, but prices are coming down. And as Asus, Acer, and others have shown, if you’re marketing a…

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Chip maker Intel and flash memory maker SanDisk have separately announced plans to develop solid state disks for use in low-cost subnotebooks.SanDisk says its pSSD drives will be available in 3, 8, and 16GB capacities, and will feature read speeds of 39 MB/s and write speeds of 17MB/s. The company’s drives should be available in August and are designed for…

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