SSD

Samsung has revealed its first ever portable SSD at CES 2015, the SSD T1. Likened by the firm to the size of a business card, it weighs in at just 30 g (1 oz), and boasts transfer speeds of up to 450 MB per second and a maximum capacity of 1 TB.

A misplaced storage device could lead to the leaking of embarrassing photos for some, while for those dealing in confidential information there could be a whole lot more at stake. These self-destructing SSDs appear ordinary storage devices, but can destroy all data onboard when triggered by SMS.

SanDisk is looking to usurp platter-based HDDs in enterprise applications with its new Optimus MAX SSD, the world's first 2.5-inch Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSD packing 4 TB of storage capacity.

Founder and CEO of Parts-People, Nathan Morgan, has built a feature-packed portable PC around the Raspberry Pi board and packed everything into a colorful 3D-printed case.

LaCie has unveiled its latest Little Big Disk external HDD that features a SATA III SSD 6 Gb/s interface that provides read speeds of up to 635 MB/s.

When the Victorinox 1 TB SSD pocket-knife hits the market later this year it will be the world's smallest high-capacity SSD drive available.

Gizmag takes a look at some of the items covered this year that might make welcome additions under the tree this Christmas.

Seagate has begun shipping the second generation of the Momentus XT hybrid solid state/hard drive that it claims is the company's fastest ever drive for personal computers.

OCZ's new Octane series SSDs come in SATA 2.0 and SATA 3.0 models in capacities of up to one terabyte.

LaCie has finally joined the Thunderbolt club with the release of its Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series.

Intel's third generation SSD 320 Series storage solution benefits from a capacity increase up to 600GB, and is said to be 30 percent cheaper than the previous series.

Intel's latest SSD 510 Series solid-state drives boast sequential read speeds of up to 500 MB/s – double that of Intel's current 3 Gbps SSDs – and sequential write speeds of up to 315 MB/s – more than triple that of its current SSDs.