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“Taking one’s sweet time” just took on an entirely new meaning. Well over a year after Micron first introduced its RealSSD P320h PCI Express SSD, the aforesaid device is finally hitting the general availability stage. And with that, the flood of reviews begins. What sets this guy apart right out of the box is its native stature; much like Fusion-io (and very unlike most all other rivals from OCZ, Intel, LSI, etc.), this thing sidesteps the mishmash of SATA / SAS controllers and opts for a direct-attached PCIe approach. At around $7,000, it’s clearly aimed first at enterprise, but given Micron’s history in the consumer space, one could assume that this kind of wizardry will eventually trickle down. The fine folks over at HotHardware found their tester to be shockingly quick, easily outpacing its rivals when it came to read and write performance. Unfortunately, the Windows drivers provided weren’t exactly mature, which led to a few booting issues when swapping in varying motherboards. Of course, no one ever said the Ferrari of PCIe SSDs would purr without a bit of finagling. Hit up the links below for the full spiel.

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Adata has announced the launch of a new line of solid-state drives called the SP600. This line of SSDs is aimed at entry-level users looking for an upgrade drive to make their computer faster. There are three SSDs in the line, and all of them are budget priced.

Despite low price points, Adata promises decent performance with read speeds of 360 MB per second, and a write speed of 130 MB per second. Adata also promises random 4KB read speeds as high as 40,000 IOPS and write speeds as high as 30,000 IOPS. These SSDs won’t break performance records on the market, but they offer decent performance for entry-level users shopping on the cheap side of the market.

The SSD line will be offered in three different capacities. The capacities include 32 GB, 64 GB, and 128 GB. These drives aren’t sized for massive amounts of storage, but should be large enough for most users to take advantage of as a boot drive.

Users of these storage devices will see faster boot times and quicker application loading times when programs are installed to the SSD. Adata will be offering all three versions of the new SP600 SSD family via Newegg and Amazon among other retailers. The 32 GB drive will sell for $49.99, the 64 GB drive will cost $69.99, and 128 GB drive will sell for $99.99.

Adata debuts new SP600 SSD line is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Today Sony outs in the US its latest Vaio line-up and introduces some already well known devices including the stunning Vaio Duo, and the Vaio Tap 20 alongside the new Vaio T Series, E Series and S Series
T Series
The top-selling stylish T Series Ultrabook made with an ultra-smooth brushed aluminum shell now comes with a touch display on the new T13 Ultrabook to allow consumers to experience Windows 8-based touch in a clamshell form factor with optional touchscreen.
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LaCie has updated its Little Big Disk Thunderbolt drive, boosting speed by up to a third over the already-whippet-like first-gen model. Now including a pair of SATA III SSDs, with read speeds up to 635MB/s, the new Little Big Disk is still clad in a distinctive aluminum chassis but delivers, LaCie claims, the fastest Thunderbolt rates around.

In fact, LaCie claims that the turn of speed the new SATA III drives bring means users will be able to transfer 50GB from their Thunderbolt-equipped PC or Mac to the drive in under two minutes. Alternatively, they’ll be able to edit six uncompressed video streams simultaneously.

As with its predecessor, there are twin Thunderbolt ports so that different peripherals – up to six at once – can be daisy-chained. However, now LaCie includes a Thunderbolt cable in the box, something we dinged them for not doing first time around.

The two SSDs can be set up as a RAID 0 or RAID 1 array, depending on whether you’re prioritizing capacity or redundancy. The 512GB model is priced from £589 ($943), while there’s also a more expensive 1TB version.

LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt v2 packs SATA III SSDs for 635MB/s is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Ok I admit it, I always has been a huge fan of Panasonic Let’s Note line-up and this despite their rather unique and unsophisticated design. However I have to admit that I am rather unimpressed by Panasonic’s new AX2. Don’t get me wrong I like the overall look of the AX2, like other model this Ultrabook is well build and sturdy, but, and yes there is but I am not a huge fan of their design choice when it comes to Panasonic understanding of an Hybrid Laptop. As you can see on …