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Who knew giant multi-touch tables would trigger the next big speed race? Ideum clearly thinks that the PixelSense-based Samsung SUR40 is lagging with that AMD Athlon II X2, because it just rolled out a pair of speed demon 55-inch, 40-point touch surfaces (but not Surfaces) in the Platform and Pro. The Platform has a respectable dual 2.2GHz Core i7 and 8GB of RAM, but it also carries a pair of 256GB solid-state drives in case that museum exhibit app won’t load quickly enough. Hopping to the Pro switches to two not quite as speedy 500GB hard drives in standard trim. It more than makes up for this with a quad 3.4GHz Core i7 and NVIDIA’s Quadro 600 for the truly stressful projects — the combination can juggle multiple users and tasks even more smoothly than its MT55 Pro ancestor. Outside of raw speed, picking a table depends mostly on svelteness versus expansion: the Pro has a full-fledged HP tower inside that can drop in SSDs and other upgrades you might fancy, while the Platform is half as thick as a SUR40 (at two inches) and sleeker overall than its big brother. We’re working to get price quotes, but the early five-digit figures we’ve seen in the past likely rule out upgrading the family coffee table. You can convince yourself with a video after the break.

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ADATA has unveiled the new XPG (Xtreme Performance Gear) series SX910 SSD. It is a SATA 6Gb/s compatible SSD, which is perfect for gamers. The ADATA XPG SX910 provides sequential read and write speeds that reach 550 and 530MB/sec with random write/read speeds up to 85,000 IOPS. The device comes equipped with a 3.5-inch conversion bracket for use with desktop enclosure slots. Available in 128GB, 256GB and 512GB of storage capacities, the ADATA XPG SX910 SSD retails for $189.99, $379.99 and $749.99, respectively. [ADATA]

When it comes to solid state drives, there are some names that you can just trust outright, and I believe that ADATA is one of them. They have certainly come up with their fair share of winners in the past, and this time around, with the ADATA XPG SX910, the company has raised the bar when it comes to reliability in the realm of solid state drives. What makes the ADATA XPG SX910 so special? For starters, it has a 7% capacity increase over common SSDs which rely on a SandForce controller, making sure you have a combination of performance and capacity without missing a beat, backed by a five-year warranty to boot. (more…)

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It’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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