Introduction

Kingston as a brand has now been functioning for over 25 years and has become the leading supplier of memory and storage solution. There products offer the reliability and performance which consumers want from products these days and with the SSD market solidifying year after year, Kingston has taken the step to offer two sects of premium storage solutions.

Kingston has currently two brands of SSD’s at the moment running under their belts. One fall under the HyperX brand which are aimed for performance minded consumers while the cash cow for Kingston still remains their budget friendly V series SSDs which have now entered their third generation powered with LSI’s SF-2281 SSD controller. Meet the Kingston’s SSDNow V300 series!

Press Release - Intel Corporation announced today the Intel Solid-State Drive 525 Series (Intel SSD 525 Series) in a small mSATA form factor with 6-gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) performance. The Intel SSD 525 Series gives OEM customers, channel and tech enthusiasts an ultra-portable, low-power storage solution in one-eighth the space of a traditional 2.5-inch hard disk drive (HDD) to drive innovative Ultrabook, tablet and embedded applications.

Intel 525 SSD – The mSATA Solution for Embedded Platforms

The Intel SSD 525 is the latest entry to the Intel 500 Series SSD Family aimed at higher-performance, enthusiast solutions. Measuring 3.7 mm x 50.8 mm x 29.85 mm and weighing 10 grams, the mSATA with PCI Express (PCIe) mini-connector delivers the performance of the company’s Intel SSD 520 Series client drive. This makes the Intel SSD 525 suitable for All-in-One desktops, notebooks, Ultrabooks and workstation upgrades, as well as automotive, digital signage, embedded video and retail solutions.

One year ago the popular file sharing site, Megaupload was shut down by the US government for illegal file sharing. Following the site’s closure, founder Kim Dotcom, while in various legal battles, was working on his latest project — Mega.

Mega is a cloud storage service for users to store their files securely on the Web. The site boasts 50GB of free storage space and features a simple drag and drop upload system quite like Google Drive and Dropbox. Mega also offers Pro subscriptions where you can pay from €9.99 to €29.99 and attain up to 4TB of storage space and 8TB of bandwidth.

While Mega doesn’t have any exciting features that make it stand out from other file sharing sites, Kim Dotcom promises to add “MegaMovie” – a section which allows you to view movies, television shows, and music. The site appears to have the ability to add friends and exchange recommendations. He posted this on Twitter taunting the Motion Picture Association of America.

Press Release – Mushkin, Inc., an industry‐leading designer and manufacturer of high‐performance and mission‐critical computer products, today announced the worldwide launch of its new Chronos Deluxe 960 GB solid‐state drive (SSD), slated to start shipping this month.

Press Release - Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the launch of the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G3 USB 3.0 Flash drive. DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G3 is redesigned with a sleek and slim new case and features fast transfer speeds for moving high resolution images, music libraries and HD video files.

Press Release – Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 USB Flash drive. DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 is the world’s largest-capacity USB 3.0 Flash drive as it will be available in a 1 TB capacity later in Q1. It is shipping now in 512 GB capacity.

Press Release - Mushkin, Inc., an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance and mission-critical computer products, today announces that the company will begin shipping the world’s largest capacity mSATA Solid-State Drive in January 2013. As the latest addition to Mushkin’s Atlas family of mSATA drives, the new solid-state drive delivers up a colossal 480 gigabytes (GB) of storage capacity on a single mSATA module.

AMD seems to be expanding its Radeon portfolio as the company plans to launch its latest Radeon branded SSD’s for consumer market. AMD also recently launched Radeon branded Memory and RamDisk program and now seems to be entering the Solid-State Drive space.

Press Release – WD, a Western Digital company and a world leader in hard drives, today announced its highest performance, highest capacity desktop hard drive, the WD Black 4 TB, 3.5-inch, 7200 RPM drive. Shipping immediately, the fast performance and ultimate capacity of the award-winning WD Black drives make them perfect for gaming, high-performance desktop systems and workstations. 

Press Release – Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is shipping the next generation of its most cost-effective SSDNow V Series solid-state drive. The Kingston SSDNow V300 is a powerful upgrade solution for cost-conscious consumers looking to upgrade their existing desktop or notebook PC.