Micron Demonstrates 1 GB/s SSD
According to a video posted on Micron’s new blog, the company managed to develop a solid state drive that could reach the fastest speeds ever recorded by such a product.
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26.11.2008 First 512GB SSD offered for sale: $1500
SSDs have always been for those with a lot of cash and a lot of demand for speed, and after this new product introduction, things are still the same. SSDs, or solid state drives, are popular because they're fast and reliable.
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10.4.2009 Activate Windows 7 Pre-Beta 6801 with Vista Beta or RC Product Key without Crack
Already download and install Windows 7 Pre-Beta build 6801? You probably have to leave the product key field blank during installation in order to complete the setup of Windows 7.
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1.11.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 Leaks, Public Beta Expected in November
After Microsoft announced yesterday that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will be sent to testers this week, more exciting news comes from the Office 2010 section.
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21.10.2009 Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2008 is the next generation development tool for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and the Web. The Beta 2 release includes most of the products found in the Visual Studio product line. MSDN Subscribers can also download these files from
MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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27.7.2007 Can we have a Windows 7 beta 2 please?
I’ve been running Windows 7 beta 1 for now eight weeks and I’ve put this beta thorough a serious workout.
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21.2.2009 Windows Defender Beta 2
Overview
This release includes enhanced features that reflect ongoing input from customers, as well as Microsoft?s growing understanding of the spyware landscape.
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14.2.2006 Windows VistaBootPRO 2.0 Beta
PROnetworks announced that VistaBootPRO 2.0 Beta, the newest version of the original program developed by the PROnetworks Betas Team and the Beta Testing Forum, is now available for download. This is an update to the original VistaBootPRO 1.0 Beta. There are lots of new features and improved GUI interface. Full support for Windows Vista Beta 2 and Build 5456 has been added as well.
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15.7.2006 Safari 3.0.4 Beta for Windows
Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web, up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer.
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16.11.2007 Windows 7 Beta 1 Just Around the Corner?
Microsoft has not only wrapped up the first Beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, but is also close to releasing the first Beta of Windows 7.
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4.12.2008 Windows 7 beta 1 review
I’ve now had my hands on Windows 7 beta 1 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 (the build that is widely expected to be made available to beta testers by Microsoft early in January) and have had some time to compose my thoughts and feelings about this latest release.
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29.12.2008 Windows 7 beta on MSDN?
Just as many are waiting for the Windows 7 beta to be announced at CES, we have a Microsoft blog saying its available on MSDN!
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8.1.2009 Windows 7 Changes Since Beta for the RC
We’ve been quite busy for the past two months or so working through all the feedback we’ve received on Windows 7.
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26.2.2009 Windows 7 Beta 1: Two Months Later
I've been running the software since Jan. 9. It's time for an update on the experience.
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9.3.2009 Windows 7, a few more changes from Beta to RC…
Building on the recent post on some changes since Beta) on some of the changes you will see in the Release Candidate.
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13.3.2009 Windows 7 Beta Is Dead
This is it! Today, August 1st, 2009 is the final expiration deadline for Build 7000, which is the first and only Beta development milestone of Windows 7.
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1.8.2009 DOWNLOAD Windows Vista Beta 1
links updated
This is Unofficial Download page of Windows Vista Beta 1. Windows Vista codename Longhorn, the next generation OS from Microsoft
This is Beta 1. Build 5112 for those inclined to such information.
Please post this on other forums and sumbit this to other news sites to help us. It will increase the traffic to the page dramatically!
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Windows Vista Beta 2 Videos
After installing Beta 2 of Microsoft's upcoming operating system, I decided to grab a few videos of the GUI in action. Read more for videos.
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Windows OneCare Beta Goes Live
Microsoft is waving goodbye to Symantec and McAfee it seems. On Tuesday, the company opened the doors to its Windows OneCare Live beta, a PC protection and maintenance service that offers an antivirus and firewall, along with tune-up and backup functionality.
Any Windows XP SP2 user can now register to download the latest beta release.
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1.12.2005 Windows Onecare Now Available for Anyone to BETA Test
So what's Windows OneCare?
It's the new antivirus, firewall and and backup solution being provided by Bill.
The BETA version is now available to everyone that speaks english
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16.12.2005 Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.2
Overview
Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow-enabled applications on Windows. It consists of a Microsoft WinFX name space (System.Workflow), an in-process workflow engine, and designers for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
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16.1.2006 Windows Live Messenger 8.0 BETA
Windows Live Messenger will be the next-generation MSN Messenger. It will have everything you already love about Messenger-your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video-plus new ways to connect and share documents with almost magical ease. As always, it will be free to download Messenger and use most of its features.
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28.1.2006 Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 now?
Paul Thurrott writes in is weekly edition of shortakes that "the Vista Beta 2 build candidate is up to build 5384.3", he also notes that "you never know if a last-minute change could cause it to jump to the build 5385 range. "
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20.5.2006 Windows Defender Beta 2 Update
Microsoft released a new Windows Defender 2, yesterday. Used to check for spyware mainly, Windows Defender is the succesor of Windows Antispyware.
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13.4.2006 Sign up for Windows Vista 2 Beta
Lead evaluations for new technologies and understand their impact on your IT environment and their potential for your company by pre-registering here.
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10.5.2006 Windows Vista Beta 2 released
Windows Vista Beta 2 has officialy been released to testers, via Microsoft's Connect portal. The build number is 5384.4. Windows Server "Longhorn" has also been released to testers. The packages are available for both the x86 and x64 platforms.
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23.5.2006 Windows Vista Beta 2: Aftermath
Shortly after Microsoft released Vista Beta 2, the big hardware vendors released updated drivers for the general public to install on their test machines. NVidia has released
nForce drivers (nForce 4 or greater) and
Forceware drivers for their chipsets/video cards and ATI has just posted
updated Catalyst drivers for their Radeon products.
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24.5.2006 Windows Vista beta 2 DOWNLOAD
The Vista Beta 2 x86 DVD is 3,200.15 MB. The package contains Ultimate, Home Basic, Home Premium, and Business binaries. As ever, the key used is what determines what SKU you see.
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24.5.2006 Official: Windows Beta 2 Available for download
As previously mentioned by Tekmaven on bink.nu, here is the offical blurb from the offical Windows Vista Website concerning Beta 2.
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8.6.2006SSD tests show Windows 7 beta beating Vista SP1
Windows 7 is supposed to be able to detect that a Solid State Drive (SSD) is being used, and make changes to some settings so that it can take
advantage of the technology. TweakTown has run some tests with the Patriot Warp2 128GB SSD SATA drive for both RAID 0 and single drive setups,
comparing Windows 7 beta and Windows Vista SP1. Based on the results found, the site has concluded that Windows 7 currently has a slight edge over
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19.01.2009The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD
Anand Lal Shimpi: The third major SSD article on AnandTech is here. We go back and try to better understand how these SSDs work, how their performance
is evolving and how TRIM is going to change everything going forward. If you read The Anthology, this is the SSD update you've been looking for...
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31.08.2009Asus debuts netbook with Windows 7 and 512GB SSD
Asus has debuted an ultra thin netbook S121 running Windows 7 and the worlds largest 512GB solid state drive(SSD). The S121 netbook is equipped with a
1.33GHz Intel Atom microprocessor and uses their touch mode software on Windows 7. This is a huge step for Windows 7 considering that Windows Vista
is not a good option for netbooks. The netbook is expected to be available in a month, but without Windows 7. Windows 7 will be available once it hits
the market later this year. A few weeks back Neowin discussed whether Windows 7 is the Linux-netbook killer and we got great response from our users.
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07.01.2009OCZ release Agility SSD series
OCZ have released a new range of Solid State Drives, named the Agility series, which will complement their eight SSD ranges they have at the moment.
Described as "an affordable offering for mainstream notebook and desktop users demanding the latest technology" in their press release, the new
range will be placed in their mainstream category. The 2.5" SSD makes use of a 64MB cache, something which the Apex SSD range (which we reviewed a
few months ago) does not offer. The drive uses 5 watts of power when in use, and 2 watts when idle, making it potentially appealing to notebook
owners.
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10.06.2009SanDisk won't specify Vista SSD problems, but is 'working with Microsoft'
Amid complaints that Windows Vista is hurting the development of solid state drives, SanDisk now says it is working with Microsoft to optimize SSDs
for "the Windows experience." But the company refused to provide details of Vista's problem, and Microsoft seemed unaware of the collaboration.
In a statement to BetaNews today, Richard Heyes, who heads up SanDisk's SSD Business Unit, didn't elaborate on the areas of
optimization, although he did talk about SSD performance on "full-featured" operating systems such as Windows Vista vs. "simple" systems such as
XP Starter Edition -- and he predicted that operating systems in general will become more "SSD aware" in the future.
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24.07.2008Review: OCZ Apex Series 120GB SSD
The OCZ Apex Series of Solid State Drives (referred to as SSDs from now on) has been out for a few months now, and thanks to the kind people at OCZ,
I've been able to get my hands on one of the 120GB models from the series. I will be reviewing both the product, and the technology, comparing the
benchmark and test results from the SSD with the results from a traditional hard drive, but we will go into that later. First of all, let's take
a look at the SSD itself.
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25.03.2009CES2008: Crucial External SSD Kit
At CES, there were several booths showing off functioning solid state disks (SSD). One that caught our eye was the Crucial SK01 External Drive Kit.
This kit gives you the benefits of having a SSD as well as higher portability. The kit comes with a 3.5" bay, 5.25" drive bracket, and a 2.5" USB
2.0 enclosure for a SSD. This allows you to plug the drive into a computer and get SATA2 3Gb/s speeds, and then eject it to have the ability to take
it anywhere and plug it into any USB. This hot-swappable feature may prove to be very useful.
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11.01.2008An Introductory Guide to SSD Storage
NotebookReview.com have put together a very useful guide on the pros and cons of Solid State Drive storage:
I thought I would
put this guide together to help the NotebookReview.com community as SSDs (Solid State Drives) are coming upon us so quickly and the interest seems to
be going through the roof. Since my first article
'Comparing
SSD Performance to Mechanical SSD Performance in a Dell Laptop' and consequently, my follow up to that
'Showdown at Big Sky -- Sandisk 32GB SSD Vs. Seagate 160GB 7200RPM
HD', the interest in the SSD has become overwhelming with respect to messages I've received from people, questions and advise given.
Instead of continuing to answer all of those questions individually, this guide is an attempt to answer basic questions about SSD that people
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15.10.2007Toshiba SSD debut at CES 2008
Toshiba Corporation today announced its entry into the market for NAND-flash-based solid state drive (SSD). The company will showcase their line of
SSD products at the CES 2008.
Toshiba's first SSDs come in three capacities: 32GB, 64GB and 128GB.
Toshiba's new SSD
integrate an original MLC controller supporting fast read-write speeds, parallel data transfers and wear leveling, and achieve performance levels
comparable to those of single-level NAND flash SSD.
By applying MLC technology, Toshiba has realized a 128GB density in a 1.8
inch form factor.
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10.12.2007Samsung Develops World's Fastest and Largest 2.5" MLC-based 256GB SSD
Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has developed the worlds fastest, 2.5-inch, 256 Gigabyte
(GB ) multi-level cell (MLC) based solid state drive (SSD) using a SATA II interface at the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum held at the
Westin Taipei Hotel. Samsungs new 256GB SSD is also the thinnest drive with the largest capacity to be offered with a SATA II interface.
With a sequential read speed of 200 megabytes per second (MB/s) and sequential write speed of 160MB/s, Samsungs MLC-based 2.5-inch 256GB SSD
is about 2.4 times faster than a typical HDD.
Furthermore, the new 256 GB SSD is only 9.5millimeters (mm) thick, and measures
100.3x69.85 mm.
Once introduced, the Samsungs 256GB SSD will mark the largest capacity SSD from the global market leader in SSD
sales, effectively eliminating density as a barrier to SSD adoption in the consumer space.
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26.05.2008If your SSD sucks, blame Vista, says SSD vendor
It's Windows Vista's fault that solid-state storage isn't performing as well as its proponents predicted. So said SanDisk CEO Eli Harari,
but at least he didn't go as far as saying it's Microsoft's problem to fix. SSDs are viewed as the heir apparent to the hard disk,
particularly for laptops and other mobile computers. SSDs are way more shock-resistant and consume less power. Theoretically, they should deliver
better performance.
Alas, many tests reveal that they don't. SSD "performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market
really needs", admitted Harari at the company's earnings conference this week.
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22.07.2008Sun calls for SSD companies to unite on standards
Players in the solid-state drive (SSD) industry need to unite and establish an umbrella organization that establishes standards that define the
technology, like its performance, a Sun Microsystems executive said yesterday.
The SSD industry, while in its infancy, has
organizations establishing separate standards around SSD metrics, and there is not enough work being done to standardize them, said Michael Cornwell,
lead technologist for flash memory at Sun.
"We don't see a focus among suppliers and vendors like ourselves because everyone
looks at their implementation
rather than as an industry implementation," Cornwell said.
winbeta.org - 05.08.2008
Mtron Rocks Again, the Fastest 130MB/s SATA II SSD
Mtron Co., Ltd, a manufacturer of Solid State Drive (SSD) products in South Korea, announced today that they have completed the development of new PRO
7500 series for industrial purpose, and will be launching the new series in June.
Mtrons new PRO 7500 series supports SATA II
interface and provide the maximum read speed of 130MB/s and write speed of 120MB/s, becoming the fastest SSD in the market. With the development of
their new PRO 7500 series, Mtron created another innovation to the SSD technology and proved once again that they are the leading manufacturer of SSD
products in the highly competitive market.
winbeta.org - 16.05.2008
Asus debuts S121 netbook with Windows 7 and 512GB SSD
Asustek Computer on Tuesday debuted an ultra-thin, light netbook called the S121 with two new technologies, Microsoft's yet-to-be released Windows 7
OS and the world's largest solid state drive (SSD) at 512GB.
winbeta.org - 07.01.2009
SanDisk reveals plans for SSD performance boost
It is getting certain that hard drives as we know them are not going to be the mainstream for data storing for too long. Although solid-state drives
are used primarily for system that need low power consumption, SanDisk (and Microsoft) gave us hope that we can expect these drives in systems that
need high performances, too.
SanDisk Corporation revealed plans for a new type of file system called ExtremeFFS. The enhancements of this
file system can improve read and write speeds more than 100 times. This is supposed to be achieved with a page-based algorithm. This means that there
is no connection between physical and logical locations. When writing data in a SSD, ExtremeFFS should put the data in a place that should be most
efficient.
The second very important possibility of a NAND module that ExtremeFFS will use will is the multi-channel option. That means
that the SSD can read or write in different modules at the same time.
The next two solutions do not really have a part in SSD performance,
but could be useful to users.
Virtual RPM is a method of measuring the performances of a SSD. It represents the number of revolutions per
minute that a hard drive should gain to have equal performances like the SSD in that moment. It is not really clear why it was necessary to create
this kind of value. Why wouldn't we use read/write speeds, or access times? The only explanation that we could get is that would be the easiest
way for the consumer to compare HDD and SSD performance. Nevertheless, an average consumer does not know that RPM does not really have to have a
significant impact on HDD performance. Not a bad advertisement, I must say.
Sandisk has also thought a way to keep your data safe.
That's the Long-Term Data Endurance (LDE). The technology implemented in SSDs to measure the reliability of a drive, and representing it as a
number to the consumer. Sandisk has called other SSD drive manufacturers to follow this idea.
All of this should be available to the market
in 2009.
Just to add, Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 will have much better optimization for SSD drives. Shiny days are awaiting
the SSD industry!
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neowin.net - 06.11.2008
Samsung Cranks Out 128GB MLC SSD
Two months ago, Samsung announced its new SATA II-based 64GB solid-state disk (SSD). The 64GB SSD promised read speeds of 120MB/sec and write speeds of 100MB/sec.
Today, Samsung is doubling the capacity of its latest SATA II SSD offering to 128GB. Instead of relying on single-level cell (SLC)
NAND flash memory, the new 128GB offering makes use of multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash.
Unfortunately, performance dropped with
the new 128 SSD -- read speeds are down to 100MB/sec while write speeds hover at 70MB/sec.
winbeta.org - 07.01.2008
Samsung Begins Mass Production of 1.8" 64GB SSDs
Back in March, Samsung
announced its 64GB flash Solid
State Disk (SSD). The 1.8"
unit promised read speeds of
65MB/sec and write speeds of
45MB/sec. Samsung today
revealed that it has started
mass production of its new
drive.
The 64GB SSD
uses 64 eight gigabit
single-level cell (SLC) flash
memory chips which are built
on a 51 nanometer
manufacturing process.
"We see sharply
increasing interest in SSDs
among OEMs worldwide amid a
growing push to launch premium
SSD-based notebooks,
particularly in the
ultra-mobile category," said
Jim Elliott, director, flash
marketing, Samsung
Semiconductor, Inc.
Samsung's 64GB SSD will
likely appear at online
retailers and inside
ultra-portable notebooks (and
UMPCs) within the coming weeks
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winbeta.org - 25.06.2007
Dell, Alienware offer expensive 64 GB SSD
Samsung has begun shipping 64 GB SATA in a 2.5" form factor. The NAND flash-based hard drives are expected to become available as storage options for
Dell and Alienware consumer notebooks.
According to Samsung, Alienware will be offering 64 GB and a 128 GB configuration (dual 64
GB RAID 0) as well as a single 64 GB SSD combined with a 200 GB 7200 rpm hard drive for its Area-51 m9750 notebook. Dell will be selling the SSD as an
option for the XPS M1330 notebook.
At the time of this writing, only Alienware was offering the new SSD “ as a single-drive 64 GB
option for the m9750. Customers will have to reach deep into their pockets to be able to enjoy the 64 GB SSD, as it comes at an additional cost of
$1100, which is more than twice what the vendor charges for the 32 GB model ($500). The 128 GB option will cost another $300.
When configured with the 64 GB SSD, the notebooks checks in at $3200; while it is already equipped with a 512 GB Geforce graphics chip, the
upgrade from a Core 2 Duo T5500 processor and from 1 GB memory, a DVD burner and a sound card will elevate the price to almost $4500 or $4800, if you
are interested in the 128 SSD model.
winbeta.org - 11.09.2007
CES2008: BiTMICRO readies 832GB 2.5" SATA SSD
At the CES 2008 show in Las Vegas, flash solid state disk pioneer BiTMICRO Networks announced its plan to launch an 832GB version of the E-Disk Altima
SATA flash SSD in 2.5-inch form factor. The drive will utilize the multi-level cell type of NAND flash, which doubles the number of bits stored per
memory cell compared to the single-level cell NAND. BiTMICRO will be using its EDSA and LUNETA controllers to optimize the performance of the E-Disk
Altima SATA flash SSD; estimates show sustained rates of up to 100MB/s and up to 20,000 I/O operations per second.
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neowin.net - 08.01.2008
OCZ release Vertex SSD range
OCZ recently unveiled their latest range of Solid State Drives (SSD), aiming to hit the balance between cost and performance. With only a few
exceptions, SSDs haven't received a warm welcome from consumers yet - almost certainly due to the cost, as the price per gigabyte is considerably
higher than that for traditional hard drives. Only a small handful of major technology companies have entered this new, emerging market, and perhaps
for a good reason. However, the new drives could be the start of a push to lower prices without lowering performance drastically either.
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neowin.net - 11.12.2008
