July
30


WD announced today the WD VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM enterprise SATA hard drives in an enterprise-class 2.5-inch form factor for blade servers and 1U and 2U rack servers. The newest WD VelociRaptor hard drive is built for business-critical applications with enterprise-class mechanics and packs up to 300 GB of capacity into the enterprise small form factor bays, while consuming 35 percent less power than the previous-generation WD Raptor drive. The new 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor drive is the only drive available that can offer server customers the flexibility of integrating SATA technology while benefiting from server-class performance and reliability.

WD VelociRaptor 2.5-inch 300GB SATA Hard Drive can hold up to 85,700 digital photos, 75,000 songs (MP3), 130 hours of DVD quality video and 36 hours of HD video. WD VelociRaptor 2.5-inch hard drives are designed and manufactured to enterprise-class standards to provide high reliability in high duty cycle environments, resulting in the highest available reliability rating of any SATA drive at 1.4 million hours MTBF.

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June
3


At merely 5mm thick, Super Talent Micro-SATA SSDs are slimmer than most 1.8-inch hard drives, and hold up to 120GB of data. In terms of performance, power consumption, and shock and vibration resistance the MasterDrive KX is substantially better than hard drives. Built with MLC NAND Flash, the Super Talent MasterDrive KX is offered in 30GB, 60GB and 120GB capacities. With 0.1ms access time and 120MB/sec and 40MB/sec max sequential read and write speeds, these SSDs provide lightning fast access to files.

The Micro-SATA connector in a 1.8-inch form factor makes these SSDs an ideal upgrade for Ultra Mobile PCs The new Super Talent Micro-SATA MasterDrive KX SSDs are available in capacities of 30GB, 60GB, and 120GB and are priced at $299, $449, and $679 respectively.

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June
3


TDK Japan launched the “HS1″ series, a line of 1.8-inch solid state disks (SSD) with the Micro SATA interface, targeting notebook computers and industrial devices. The TDK HS1 series comes in three models with storage capacities of 16, 32 and 64 Gbytes, respectively. The product uses SLC (single-level cell) NAND flash memory. Burst performance is 100MBps reading and 50MBps writing. To accelerate the writing speed, the TDH HS1 disk has a four-channel bus, which extended the standard one- or two-channel bus, between the controller LSI and the NAND flash memory.

The encryption method used in the disk is 128-bit AES. The disk also has a function to detect and correct errors up to 7 bits. The combination of MLC memory and the controller IC provides the disc a rewrite life of 10 years (when operated 24 hours a day, 365 days a year), according to TDK. The TDK HS1 disks are now available for volume shipment at sample prices of ¥200,000 (1,902) for a 64-Gbyte model, ¥150,000 ($1438) for a 32-Gbyte model and ¥90,000 ($865) for a 16-Gbyte model.

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