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SandForce is a company that produces a number of different processors that control flash storage inside an SSD or computer. These controller chips can have a huge impact on how the computer performs overall including having a major impact on speed and battery life. The company has announced new controller chips promising significantly improved battery life called the SandForce SF-2200/2100 Client Flash Storage Processors.

Both of the new storage processor lines are aimed directly at the stringent power consumption requirements of ultrabooks. The most important new feature of the storage processors is that they consume significantly less power than predecessors promising as much as an extra hour of runtime per battery charge. An extra hour of runtime is a huge improvement in consumption.

SandForce is talking about three new specific products aimed at the ultrabook market, including the LSI SandForce SF-2141, SF-2241 and SF-2281 client FSPs. These processors have other benefits for the ultrabook market than extending battery life. The new processors will enable system boo and wake times to be reduced and are designed to meet the low C-height product requirement in the ultrabook market.

The controllers support SATA 6Gb/s host connectivity and are able to address between 24 GB and 512 GB of NAND flash memory. SandForce says that the processors support virtually all MLC flash product families. I’d wager these new flash controllers would find their way into other products as well since ultrabooks aren’t the only computing products that could benefit from an extra hour of battery life.

SandForce SF-2200/2100 storage processors promise an extra hour of runtime is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Integral UK has just released a new line of SSDs, the Crypto. Available in four different storage capacities: 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB, these 2.5-inch SSDs are equipped with MLC NAND Flash memory chips, a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, a built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption, TRIM support and can deliver read and write speeds of up to 240MB/s and 200MB/s, respectively. The 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB models are priced at 128.99 GBP (about $200), 169.99 GBP (about $264), 230.99 GBP (about $359) and 301.99 GBP (about $469), respectively. [Integral]

LaCie has launched a new toughened memory stick, the LaCie RuggedKey, cladding a toughened flash chip in a resilient rubber bumper. The RuggedKey, which will be available in 16GB and 32GB capacities, connects via USB 3.0 and is capable of withstanding 100m drops, extremes of heat and cold, and IP-54 level dust and water. Perhaps best of all, it looks like a little neon grenade.

There’s also data security in electronic form rather than just hardware, with 256-bit AES encryption to stop access to anybody bar those who have the right password. It’s also paired with Wuala Secure Cloud Storage, which automatically mirrors a locked-down copy of any data added to the RuggedKey in a cloud drive accessible from your browser.

LaCie claims the RuggedKey’s USB 3.0 connection is capable of transferring a 5GB file (or an HD movie, or 3,000 photos) in under a minute, with peak speeds of up to 150MB/s. That will obviously depend on your computer, of course.

The LaCie RuggedKey is priced from £34.95 ($54) and will be available in 16GB and 32GB capacities. The drive has just dropped onto the SlashGear test bench, and so we’ll have a review for you very soon.

LaCie RuggedKey packs encrypted data in toughened shell is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Logitec Japan announced today a new USB 3.0 and eSATA external enclosure, the LHR-8BREU3 at 39,800 Yen. This new external enclosure can fit up to 8 SATA HDDs as well as comes with RAID 0/5/10/50 with auto-rebuild.

Samsung might be experiencing its fair share of legal woes at the moment against Apple at the courthouse, but that does not mean that the rest of the world would stop for the South Korean consumer electronics giant. No sir, it is said that Samsung has started to begin volume production of what they claim to be the fastest embedded NAND storage in the world, targeting use in a plethora of modern day gadgets include smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. These will come in three different capacities – we are looking at 16GB, 32GB and 64GB densities.

Known as the new Samsung Embedded Multimedia Card (eMMC) Pro Class 1500, it is said to offer the industry’s fastest speeds where an embedded memory device is concerned, being able to read data sequentially at up to 140 MB/s (megabytes per second) and writing it at up to 50 MB/s. When it comes to random reading and writing, it will be able to process up to 3500/1500 IOPS (inputs and outputs per second) – and for comparison’s sake, that is four times the speed of previous eMMC solutions, now how about that for being the proverbial Speedy Gonzales? It would take some time before you see the new Samsung Embedded Multimedia Card (eMMC) Pro Class 1500 arrive in future gizmos. [Press Release]

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