Samsung starts mass production of cheaper 4TB SSDs

When Samsung unveiled its 4TB solid state drives a couple of years back, these weren’t exactly the cheapest products at US$1,499. Now, with the company’s new 4-bit 4TB QLC SSDs, the company promises these would be more affordable alternatives. The new storage chips allow these drives to have the same 540MBps read and 520MBps write speeds of Samsung’s existing SATA SSD drives, making these enticing products for those who need more space. Samsung even throws in three-year warranty for them. The first drives are expected to come out later this year.

Aside from developing new SSDs, Samsung is also using this same technology “to efficiently produce a 128GB memory card for smartphones that will lead the charge toward higher capacities for high-performance memory storage.” So, if you feel like your smartphone is lacking some extra space, these might be worth keeping an eye out for.

MCE ships 2TB SSD upgrade kits for Pre-Retina MacBook Pro, MacBook, mini

MCE announces a new lineup of SSD upgrade solutions for pre-retina MacBook Pro, MacBook, and Mac mini named Lightspeed. Each solution is based around a high-performance 2.5" SATA-III solid state drive (SSD) available in 2TB, 1TB, 500GB, 250GB, and 128GB capacities designed to replace the machine's original internal hard drive or SSD.

The MCE Lightspeed SSD upgrade solution includes a portable USB 3.0 enclosure for use with the machine's original 2.5" SATA drive plus cloning software to facilitate easy data transfer, all tools required for installation, and an illustrated installation manual. The MCE Lightspeed upgrade kits start at $99 for the 128GB kit, up to $799 for the 2TB kit and are available for immediate shipment.

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CES 2015: Samsung unveils business card-sized 1TB SSD

Making storage faster, more compact, and reliable, Samsung introduced the new Portable SSD T1, a one terabyte SSD that is no bigger than a business card. It is powered by 3D V-NAND technology and can read and write data with speeds up to four times faster than traditional hard disks. It promises that you can transfer 3GB movie file in around eight seconds. Other features include advanced hardware encryption, password software, shock resistance, and dynamic thermal guard.

Review: Toshiba Canvio AeroMobile Wireless SSD

Text and Photos by Simon Cohen

Small, light and powerful, this wireless hard drive manages to impress with great features and performance.

We’ve clearly hit a point in our technological evolution where we have begun to see the presence of wired connections (whether for data or for power) as an annoyance and not as a critical component of our gadgets.

We crave a life where all of our tech toys can talk to each other wirelessly and – dare we dream – charge themselves wirelessly too.

And while the wireless charging scenario is still a few years from becoming mainstream, wireless data is here and it is rapidly gaining a foothold amongst most of our devices.

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