Intel’s current Sandy Bridge platform added SATA 3 (6Gbps) support for laptops, allowing laptop users to take advantage of the improved interface bandwidth and SSDs that have the capacity to use it. However, a vast majority of laptops ship with regular hard drives to keep the cost down, which is no doubt one of the [...]
The storage giant Seagate is taking over Samsung’s hard drive division and initiates a partnership with the Korean company in current SSD, hybrid storage and flash memory technology. The rumor that Samsung withdraws from the hard drive market were just confirmed in an official press release stating that Seagate takes over the operations in exchange [...]
Samsung has released a beta version of the tool SSD Magician, which can supposedly be used to enable garbage collection and TRIM on Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003/2008. It also comes with tools for cloning drives, performing firmware upgrades and benchmarking. It only works with Samsung drives and can be downloaded here.
