Corsair, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC hardware market, today announced the Force Series GS solid-state drives (SSDs). The new SSDs, which offer the fastest overall performance in Corsair’s SandForce-based lineup, will initially ship in capacities of 180 GB and higher. As with other Force Series drives, the Force Series GS SSDs are based on the SandForce SF-2200 SSD Processor, but add toggle NAND flash memory to boost random write speeds up to an amazing 90,000 IOPs.

OCZ, today released its Firmware 1.5 Beta Update for the Vertex 4 series Solid State Drives which further enhances the sequential speeds of the storage devices.

ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules and NAND Flash storage application products, today announced the launch of the XPG SX910 solid state drive, a significant broadening of the popular and powerful XPG line of storage products. The SX910 features a 7% capacity increase over common SSDs that use a SandForce controller, delivering a powerful combination of capacity and high performance with a five-year warranty.

Kingston, a world leader in memory products from high performance DDR3 HyperX rams to flash drives and SSD’s, the Taiwanese never fails to please its consumers worldwide. And now, they have pushed out a firmware update for its SSDNow V200 series 64GB and 128GB SSD’s that offers an increase of performance of up to 136 percent!

Kingston’s (5K) series of SSDs , based on the second generation SandForce (SF; now LSI) controller (the SF-2281), offered competitive performance as compared to its earlier offerings based on non-SF controllers.

To offer a competitive product at a lower price point, Kingston introduced its 3K line of SSDs which are based on the same second generation SF controller found on the 5K series and are available in capacities ranging from 90GB to 480GB.

Finalware, the company behind the renowned benchmarking software AIDA64, has now announced the availability of the AIDA64 Extreme Edition 2.50 software with also the immediate launch availability of the Business edition 2.50 as well that is itself an essential network management tool for small and medium scale enterprises.

Mach Xtreme Technology Inc., a worldwide leader in top performance, high reliability and user friendly designed PC components, today unveiled the SATA MX-KATANA 6Gb/s Series SSD modules. Based on an innovative design, the sleek gum stick-sized modules deliver an enhanced mobile computing experience with much faster application loading, ultra-fast data access, shorter boot-ups, and longer battery life of today’s and future ultrabooks and netbooks with new type low-profile SATA 3.0 interface.

Silicon Power (SP), the world’s leading provider of memory storage solutions today unveiled Velox V60, a 2.5″ consumer solid state disk that combines aesthetic and performance. V60 features a sleek metal body with SATA III interface delivering personal style, speed and quality, taking computing experience to a new level.

World’s largest HDD manufacturer Western Digital (WD) has launched its new VelociRaptor 1TB drive as the newest addition to its VelociRaptor series drives.

Intel Corporation announced today the Intel Solid-State Drive 330 Series (Intel SSD 330 Series), a SATA 6 gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) solid-state drive (SSD) that gives consumers a more affordable entry into the accelerated storage performance of SSDs.