Tag: ssd
WATCH: Hands on with Samsung’s tiny 1TB SSD
Eurocom Monster 11.6-inch notebook packs in Ivy Bridge, Kepler GPU and 16 GB RAM
If you're looking to grab a super-powerful notebook, money is no object and you're not too keen on Apple's Retina-packing MacBook Pro, Eurocom have just revealed details of a new supercharged laptop. And, just like it's name suggests, it's a…
Seagate pushes for HDD dominance with finalised Samsung acquisition
Seagate has taken another step on their climb towards the top of the HDD pile by finalising its purchase of Samsung's hard disk drive arm. The move sees Seagate gain control of select assets, infrastructure and employees, while both companies…
Acer Aspire 3951 Ultrabook revealed: Macbook Air rival on the way
Intel's Ultrabooks are on their way and a leaked photo of the Acer Aspire 3951 Ultrabook is the first to get pulses really racing. A real MacBook Air alternative, it's set to touch down in October, with prices as low…
SanDisk launch stamp-sized 64GB SSD drive
SanDisk have today lifted the lid on a new range of solid state drives that are no bigger than a postage stamp, but still boast as much as 64GB of storage space. Measuring 16mm x 20mm x 1.85mm and weighing…
Samsung intros two SMX HD upscaling camcorders
Why bother with fancy, expensive storage sucking HD camcorders when you can record in standard definition and upscale in playback through an HDMI cable? That’s Samsung’s philosophy with the release of two flash memory camcorders, the SMX-K40 and SMX-K44.
The two sport healthy sounding 52x zoom Schneider-Kruznach lenses that you can tweak out to 65x if you’re happy to use the digital intelli-zoom which is designed to hold on to some of that quality that’s usually lost to pixelation. Then shoot up to 10 hours and 20 minutes on the 16GB SSD, if using the SMX-K44, or however much you like if you’ve got the SMX-K40 with its zero onboard storage and gaping SD/SDHC card slot.
Naturally, there’s image stabilisation so that you can actually hold the picture steady at maximum zoom and there’s even a YouTube button so that you can flaunt share you vids, you generous soul, you.
Both are out next month which is August 2009 in case you’re reading in the future. If you do happen to be in the future then please tell us what it’s all like. Do we have flying cars yet, do hover boards exist and any of the next few years Grand National winners would be most helpful.
Better pictures and prices when Samsung pull themselves together
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Guide: The difference between SSDs and HDDs
This guide outlines the main differences between solid state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs).
There are two major types of SSD in current production — NAND and DRAM. This guide focuses on the more common one: NAND.
It’s worth noting that advances are being made all the time on both types of drive and that these differences are generalisations. Individual performance will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer.
1. Speed
Most solid state drives, except ones made using cheaper components, are significantly faster at reading data than a hard drive.
This is because there are no moving mechanical parts on a SSD and so the “seek time” is significantly reduced. Incidentally, DRAM drives are faster still.
Writing large files is also generally quicker on a SSD, though at present there are often performance problems when trying to write a lot of small files to a SSD. It’s possible to overcome this through improved system design.
In general, though, SSDs are faster than HDDs.
(PS: SSDs are generally quieter than HDDs because they don’t have any moving parts and are usually fanless)
VIDEO: See how fast SSDs can get
Most people know that the hard drive is one of the slowest bits in most modern computers, and we’re all eagerly anticipating the arrival of affordable, capacious SSD drives, but I hadn’t quite realized how fast these things were until I saw this video, from Samsung’s marketing team. Watch it above.
A set of 24 SSDs in RAID can open the entirety of Microsoft Office in half a second, the entire start menu (53 programs!) in 18 seconds, and can copy a DVD from place to place in less time than it takes to throw the aforementioned DVD out of the window. Best of all, the system can defrag in just three seconds. Impressive!
(via Gizmodo)
CES 2009: HP Mini 2140 netbook
Here’s HP’s netbook, the Mini 2140. It’s really rather nice, packing a good size keyboard, 10.1″ screen and 80GB SSD. Decent price, too – but I’ll let Zara reveal that one. Check out the video above to find out.
(via Shiny Shiny)
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Samsung announces 64GB SSD H-Series HD camcorder, and some others too
Not to be outdone by Canon, Samsung has also released info about a range of new camcorders that it’ll be bringing to market later in the year. They all come under the banner of H-Series, which seems to mean nothing except that their meaningless product numbers all begin with H.
In full, there’s the HMX-H106, HMX-H105, HMX-H104, and HMX-H100. They’ve got HD sensors, and lenses from Schneider Kreuznach that have a 10X zoom and “Optical Image Stabilisation”. One of the models in particular – the top-of-the-line HMX-H106 – comes with a 64GB SSD, which I believe is the first camcorder with a drive that big.
