Seagate and Sandisk, both storage solutions companies, are having a hard time in this economic environment. Both are leaders in their markets, but need massive restructurings to stay afloat. On January 21, Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX), the leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions with......

SanDisk showed off their upcoming third generation solid state drive (SSD) – the G3 SSD family – at CES 2009. These drives feature new algorithms such as ExtremeFFS, new technologies such as All Bit Line MLC NAND flash, and a new SanDisk controller. More importantly, the G3 SSD family will be av...

Lugging around a USB-powered hard disk with your laptop may be the easiest thing to do, but the Sandisk Ultra Backup still commands consideration for its key premise: up to 64GB of encrypted backup storage packaged as a thumbdrive. Just like its bigger, hard-disk based cousins, the Ultra Backup feat...

SanDisk's new G3 SSD drives are set to offer read speeds equivalent to a 40,000RPM platter drive at prices that won't make you queasy. The age of SSD laptops is looking imminent. Coming in 60GB,......

Soon after announcing a $155 million loss on the quarter, SanDisk looks to fire as much as 15 percent of its global workforce. Zoom SanDisk, one of the worlds largest flash memory manufacturers, is getting ready to shed some weight. With the economy still on the downturn, the Milpitas, CA-based make...

Indicati da molti come la soluzione di storage mobile del futuro e già discretamente adottati dai principali brand sui loro notebook più di pregio, i dischi allo stato solido o SSD (Solid State Drive) vantano, da sempre, un consumo energetico dichiarato inferiore rispetto agli hard dis...

TakeTV, we hardly knew ye. Unveiled just last October, SanDisk’s USB PC-to-TV video device along with Fanfare, its accompanying content portal, were both shut down on May 15th, a SanDisk spokesperson has confirmed. The official party line is that TakeTV was no longer a priority for SanDisk as ...

Patent lawsuits always seem to be one of two things: Little more than a slight annoyance, or a business-ending death blow. Rarely does the tech world see companies who resemble Timex watches in their ability to take a patent lickin’ and keep on tickin’. But the U.S. headquarters of Buffa...

The memory business is a volatile one, driven by consumer demand for products like MP3 players and rapid obsolescence. That’s why the gradual move of solid-state storage drives based on NAND flash memory into the PC is so interesting. Now that those drives are bigger, at 64GB and soon 128GB, m...