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Hackers Successfully Dump Xbox One NAND
Hacking groups don’t hang around these days and with less than a week on the market, there has already been a fairly significant breach of the Xbox One hardware…. whoops. Piracy is a major problem for many software developers and hardware manufactures and while I personally don’t believe that its…
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Micron Predicts A Rise In DRAM Prices
Following the massive fire at the factory of SK Hynix early last month, the price of DRAM not surprisingly shot right up with the cost of a 2Gb DDR3 DRAM chip rising up from $1.60 to $2.27 – that’s a rise if nearly 42% in cost. Thanks to a shift…
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Samsungs Share Of The SSD Market Set To Grow
To say that there is not a fierce battle going on between vendors in the SSD market would be telling one huge lie. The SSD market as we know it today is as competitive as ever and there is one name that it appears is dominating over everyone else. Since…
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OCZ Vertex 450 256GB SSD Review
Introduction Since I have been reviewing SSDs, there is one particular brand that as been at the forefront of my testing and who are always willing to send me the latest revision of their most popular drives. This is of course OCZ and since I took a look at the…
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ADATA XPG SX300 256GB mSATA SSD Review
Introduction Over recent years, mSATA drives have typically been a component that has not been on the forefront of the consumer market, seen only really by OEM manufacturers or by those who opened up their systems. With the market shifting towards smaller and smaller systems, and advances in technology allowing…
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NAND Prices Drop 6-9% In Late July
With smartphone and tablet demand soaring, along with demand for things like memory cards, flash drives, SSDs and so on, it is easy to see how NAND prices have risen so much in recent times. Both May and June of this year saw continuous upward trends for NAND pricing. That…
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Crucial M500 480GB SSD Review
At the start of the year during CES, the major buzz word of the show as we all know was 4K, but whilst this was a buzz word, in the storage sector there were other goings on the was stirring a whole heap of interest. For many years now we…
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Toshiba Develop Newer SRAM for Lower Power Consumption in Mobile Devices
Japanese-based Industry giant Toshiba recently announced that they’re developing a technology with a promise that it will be making a substantial cut in power consumption for embedded SRAM solutions which is used in smartphones, tablets, MP3 players and such portable devices which use high-performance memory modules. The company believes that…
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Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB SSD Review
Over the years, Kingston have been one of the leading manufacturers of solid state drives and their selection of drives range from entry level consumer options right up to their top end HyperX editions. Whilst it’s great having a top end drive, most day to day users either don’t have…
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