Patriot introduces new Inferno Solid State Hard Drive (SSDs)
Monday, May 17th, 2010 - DisclaimerThe Californian memory maker is updating the Inferno line of solid state drives by releasing two new products with storage capacities of 100GB and 200GB. However, regrettably this launch is not the beginning of a reduction in the price of these data storing devices; in fact, to get one of the new SSDs the user will have to pay $369 (for a 100GB SSD) or $679 (for a 200GB SSD). The reason for these numbers are the current memories prices (very expensive). And, if you have had to update or increase the memory of your gadgets recently, then maybe you are very aware of this situation (including Flash and SDRAM memories, too).
Finally and after observing the market carefully for several months, the memory maker Corsair apparently is ready to launch a 2.5-inch solid state drive to store up to 128GB of data.
The Japanese company announced that will offer 512GB solid-state drives (SSDs) soon. The first laptops and other devices using them could be available in the second quarter of 2009 or later.
They are intended to complete the available high performance drives made by the American maker: the OCZ Vertex series are proudly the high performance SSD drives with the best ratio storage / price.
The operating system and auxiliary files generated by Windows 7 -including restore files, log points, hibernation files and temporary files – will require 8GB, leaving the other 8GB for applications and user data, according to the Microsoft senior lead program manager Leon Braginski, who said that during a presentation at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC).
