Seagate Technology plc, a world leader in storage solutions, today announced its shipping its thinnest hard disk drive (HDD) ever to OEM partners — the Seagate Laptop Ultrathin HDD. Just 5mm thin, the Laptop Ultrathin HDD is designed to be integrated into ultra-thin, lightweight mobile computing devices and tablets all while delivering high capacity storage at an affordable price.

“When we originally demonstrated this solution last September, we knew we had a truly innovative product that would empower our partners to reimagine mobile applications,” said Steve Luczo, president, CEO and chairman of Seagate. “The strong support from our OEM partners indicates we have delivered on our vision and look forward to a new wave of innovative solutions enabled by this revolutionary product.”

The 2.5- inch drive is just 5mm thin and weighs a mere 3.3oz— making it about as thin as four stacked credit cards and lighter than a deck of cards. It delivers up to 500GB of capacity in 25 percent less space than its previous-generation 7mm counterpart, freeing up valuable real-estate within portable devices to accommodate additional designed-in features such as longer-life batteries and better air circulation. An affordable alternative to SSD storage, Laptop Ultrathin HDD helps blur the lines between notebook and tablets by enabling new emerging applications like convertible and detachable storage.

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Silicon Power, the world’s leading provider of memory storage solutions released a brand new USB 3.0 portable hard drive – Stream S03. Inspired by the concept of page folding as a way of keeping the precious and meaningful moments, S03’s unique folding design emphasizes this gesture to create your personal memory box, instilling more human touches into the storage device.

SP Stream S03’s matte finish provides solid protection against fingerprints and stains. Inheriting the streamline design from the Stream Series, S03 is built with the curved corners and ergonomics chamber on the both sides, allowing users to handle with ease.

Located in the asymmetric page-fold corner, Stream S03’s LED indicator is designed to help users distinguish the transfer interface of the host with ease. The blue LED indicates USB 3.0, whereas the red is for USB 2.0, which truly combines functionality and practicality. In addition, S03 is equipped with the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface and is available in 500GB and 1TB, satisfying the need for multiple data transfer. On top of the new design and smart LED, the product is also equipped with hibernation mode to save power.

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Memoright is announcing next-generation XTM Series SATA III SSD products at Computex 2013. Including Memoright’s exclusive Endurance Write firmware architecture developed with in-house R&D, the product supports MLC and TLC flash memory made with the latest process technology. Offering the best combination of reliability and high-speed performance, the product is ideal for applications in cloud computing, business servers, workstations and high-end personal computers.

Using the latest 19 nm MLC / TLC flash memory, the XTM SSD includes Memoright’s exclusive Endurance Write firmware architecture that significantly enhances SSD life while providing stable, high-speed read/write performance.

Earlier TLC flash memory applications have been confined to digital audio players and other products that have flash drive storage requirements at the low range of performance and service life. Yet market expectations for SSDs have increased steadily, making a design that balances performance, product life and product cost an important test for the SSD industry and manufacturers.

With our exclusive Endurance Write firmware architecture, Memoright’s XTM series allows traditional MLC flash memory to achieve its full potential in performance, while for first time TLC can also be added to SSD applications, evidence of our strong SSD hardware/software R&D capabilities.

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Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the latest addition to its SSDNow family, the KC300 solclass-state drive. KC300 enables business, mobile and power users to be more productive as the drive maximizes power efficiencies in notebook PCs. KC300 provclasses advanced power management via an LSI® SandForce® second-generation SF-2281 processor, allowing users to do more from a single charge.

KC300 is the next-generation business drive, replacing the Kingston® V+200 and KC100 SSDs. The drive features enterprise-grade SMART attributes, allowing IT departments to monitor wear range data, SSD life left, write amplification and total bytes written. KC300 comes equipped with Data Integrity Protection featuring DuraWrite™ technology to extend the life of the SSD by effectively and efficiently reducing the number of Flash writes via an intelligent compression engine without sacrificing data integrity. RAISE™ reduces the number of uncorrectable errors in the drive, over and above standard error code correction.

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