Flash VaporDrives: Promises, Promises

With the latest crypto-announcement of a 128 GB, 2.5″ SATA flash drive, my patience with the flash disk folks is at an end. They aren’t shipping flash drives and, as near as I can tell, they have no intention of doing so for quite some time. Last April...

SSD Price War Begins

Digi Times is reporting that Ritek, the Taiwan-based optical disk maker, announced a 32 GB flash drive under its RiDATA brand for OEM sale. The cool thing: looks like they are charging ~$10/GB for the 16 GB version, although the article isn’t clear on pricing. A...

An SSD For The Rest Of Us

After I hit the “publish” button for yesterday’s SSD article I started thinking of additional things to add: I sent a note off to Texas Memory Systems asking them to respond if they’d like. They graciously said they would, so I’m waiting....