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In the list those manufacturers that also produce hard disk drives or flash memory are identified. Additionally, the type of memory used in their solid-state drives is noted. This list does not include the manufacturers of specific components of SSDs, such as flash memory controllers. [1]
Texas Memory Systems, Inc. (TMS) was an American corporation that designed and manufactured solid-state disks (SSDs) and digital signal processors (DSPs). TMS was founded in 1978 and that same year introduced their first solid-state drive, [4] followed by their first digital signal processor.
OCZ was a brand of Toshiba that was used for some of its solid-state drives (SSDs) before they were rebranded with Toshiba. OCZ Storage Solutions was a manufacturer of SSDs based in San Jose, California, USA and was the new company formed after the sale of OCZ Technology Group ' s SSD assets to Toshiba Corporation.
As SSD technology continues to improve, they are increasingly used in ultra-mobile PCs and lightweight laptop systems. The first flash-memory SSD based PC to become available was the Sony Vaio UX90, announced for pre-order on 27 June 2006 and began shipping in Japan on 3 July 2006 with a 16 GB flash memory hard drive. [158]
Violin Memory's initial public offering in September 2013, raised $162 million at a price of $9 a share. [4] Its stock price dropped to $2 a share after its largest partner, Hewlett Packard , became a competitor and due to concerns of how quickly it was spending money. [ 4 ]
Both HDD and SSD vendors use the term GB to represent a decimal GB or 1,000,000,000 (= 10 9) bytes. Like most other electronic storage, flash memory is assembled in powers of two, so calculating the physical capacity of an SSD would be based on 1,073,741,824 (= 2 30) per binary GB or GiB.
A size comparison of an mSATA SSD (left) and an M.2 2242 SSD (right) M.2, pronounced m dot two [1] and formerly known as the Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF), is a specification for internally mounted computer expansion cards and associated connectors.
A system with 512 MB of RAM (the minimum requirement for Windows Vista) can see significant gains from ReadyBoost. [14] [15] In one test case, adding 1 GB of ReadyBoost memory sped up an operation from 11.7 seconds to 2 seconds. However, increasing the physical memory (RAM) from 512 MB to 1 GB (without ReadyBoost) reduced it to 0.8 seconds. [16]