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Corsair has SSDs for all sorts of needs from simple and small boot drives to high-capacity drives that can be used for storage and the OS on your notebook or desktop computer. Corsair is also a big name in the RAM business for PCs and other users. Corsair has announced today that it is adding a pair of new capacity SSDs to its Force Series offerings. The new SSDs are the F90 and F180 and they share many of the same features of their other family members the F60, F120, and F240.

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The new SSDs both use the Sandforce SF-1200 SSD processor with read speeds up to 285MB/sec and write speeds up to 275MB/sec. Corsair also claims that the SSDs are good for 50K IOPs with 4K random writes. Both of the new SSDs support TRIM in Windows 7 and are shipping right now. The F90 will sell for $189.99 and the F180 will sell for $399.99.

"Corsair's Force Series of SSDs have become extremely popular with enthusiasts and gamers, and with these two new capacities we can offer our customers greater flexibility to choose the capacity that best suits their budget," stated Thi La, VP of Memory Products at Corsair. "The 90GB and 180GB capacities neatly fill the gaps in the current family, which now ranges from 40GB all the way to 240GB."

When it comes to SSDs, there are a ton of companies on the market that we can choose from. Silicon Power is one of the companies that seems to be offering up a new SSD every time I look around. The latest new SSD to come from the company is called the E20 and the SSD is really fast. The E20 uses a special RAM cache function to speed the drives operation and reduce bottlenecks.

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The SSD has a DRAM cache that enhances the read and write performance of the storage device. Silicon Power claims that the SSD is good for read speed up to 250MB/s and write speed up to 230MB/s. The write performance of the SSD is boosted further by using Windows 7 TRIM functionality. The drive uses a 2.5-inch form factor and it is offered in multiple capacities. The capacities include 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB.

The SSD also has SMART support ad uses a circuit current sensor to tell when power is fluctuating to the drive and help prevent your data from being lost. Other features include wear leveling, RoHS compliance, resistance to shock and vibration, as no noise production. The SSD measures 100mm x 69.85mm x 9.5mm. Pricing is unknown at this time.

Hitachi along with Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) - a public-sector body that promotes research of energy efficient technology, National University Corporation Tokyo Institute of Technology as well as Kyoto University have together developed a new hard drive data recording technology that has promised to increase data density 8-fold.

As long as I live I will remember when I was five and my dad drove us to the GMC dealership to buy a Delorean. I was so excited I could have stroked out. We got there and the one on display was sold and he ended up buying a used Vette instead, pretty much killing my high. Those Delorean cars are still some of the coolest rides I have ever seen made all the more famous by Back to the Future.

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If you like Delorean cars or are a fan of the flick Flash Rods has the coolest external storage drive ever and you will want it. The drive is crammed inside a 1:18 scale replica of the Delorean from Back to the Future so it looks cool as hell sitting on your desk and gives you another 500GB of USB powered storage.

The drive inside the car is a Seagate 500GB unit and the vehicle is decked out with Mr. Fusion and all the gadgets and stuff from the film. I bet the flux capacitor is even sitting on the dash. The only way this thing could be cooler is if it had a USB 3.0 drive crammed inside, but that would have driven the cost up more. You can get yours right now for $250.

The geeks over at AnandTech have laid hands on the new OCZ Vertex Plus SSD and are offering up a preview of the storage device and its new Indilinx Martini controller. The new controller came after the next-gen 6Gbps Jet Stream controller from the firm was delayed until next year. The controller used in the OCZ SSD is called Barefoot and is a new hardware revision and Martini is the new firmware for this new hardware only.

One of the major downsides facing a Mac computer user is that Macs tend to not be as upgradable by the user as PCs are. That means that often what you get from the factory is what you have to live with and if you do try to upgrade your warranty might be toast. If you are a user of the Mac Pro desktop computer, Apricorn has a new upgrade that will leave you with some serious geek lust. The new device is called the Mac Array.

Good ol' Super Talent is always at it tossing new and flashionable flash drives onto the market in an attempt to part geeks with their hard-earned money. Most of the flash drives that the firm makes put as much focus on looking good as they do working well. That's not a bad thing at all; our tech gear can look good and work. The latest offerings from the company are a coupe new flash drives in the USB Pico Mini line.

Kingston makes a ton of different products that are used inside computers all around the world. The company has tons of RAM for enthusiasts, flash drives, and a full line of SSDs for any user group. Kingston announced today that it has added a new family of SSDs to its line called the SSDNow V100. The new SSDs are offered in several capacities and come in OEM or retail kits.

There are some very tiny and thin profile devices on the market today like the new MacBook Air notebooks that Apple launched a few weeks ago. The thinner portable devices get, the thinner the hardware that goes inside has to be as well. Toshiba has unveiled a new type of SSD called the Blade X-Gale series. These SSDs look more like sticks of RAM than a SSD we typically think of.

I am sure that there are tons of people out there that have old 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch HDDs lying around that are doing nothing other than collecting dust. Those drives are probably still good and you just don't want to trash them. Trendnet has a couple new external HDD enclosures that will let you take those old drives and make blazing fast external storage out of them. The new enclosures include the Trendnet TU3-S35 and the TU3-S25.