Sony S-Series XQD memory cards hit speed record at 168MB/s, starting at $500 for 32GB in Japan

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Sony’s new S-Series XQD memory cards will be the fastest you can buy when they arrive on the Japanese market July 11th, with a transfer speed of 168MB/s — a boon if you’re shooting continuous raw photos or high data rate HD video. The company claims that you’ll need a Thunderbolt connection on your computer to take advantage of all that speed, which comes via the PCI Express Gen interface used for the memory cards. The 32GB and 64GB models will also have plenty of space to put all that media, but you’ll need to pay for the privilege, to the tune of $503 and $754, respectively. Of course, those prices may not be an issue if you’ve already plonked down the coin for one of the few devices that support them.

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Seagate and DensBits team up on solid-state drives for the home, call truce in the HDD versus SSD war

Seagate Pulsar XT 2It’s an understatement to say that Seagate started off on the wrong foot in its attitude towards solid-state drives: the company only slowly came around to embracing flash memory, and then mostly for the enterprise crowd and hybrid drive lovers. A newly-struck partnership between Seagate and controller maker DensBits is signalling a more serious attempt to offer SSDs to everyday users. Along with catering to the business folk, Seagate wants its new teammate’s help on building “low-cost, high-performance” consumer SSDs. Most of the drives for the plebeians will use slower but denser 3-bits-per-cell memory made on a process under 20 nanometers, while the suits will get faster 2-bits-per-cell flash for their servers. The deal doesn’t have any timetable attached, although Seagate’s decision to pour equity cash into DensBits suggests it’s not just a one-time fling.

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Seagate and DensBits team up on solid-state drives for the home, call truce in the HDD versus SSD war originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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