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ASUS’ RAIDR Express PCI-e SSD is compatible with both legacy and UEFI BIOS

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ASUS' RAIDR Express PCI Expressbased SSD is compatible with both legacy and UEFI BIOS

These days, it's fairly easy to find a PCI Express-based SSD to transform one's desktop -- Angelbird, Fusion-io, Micron and ASUS will sell you one, just to name a few. That said, the last of those three has just revealed a new entrant that will certainly catch the eye of many, as the RAIDR Express claims to be the first PCI-e SSD to be compatible with both legacy and UEFI BIOS. The so-called DuoMode feature is joined by 240GB of storage space, sequential 830MB/s read and 810MB/s write speeds and a reported 620,000 hours mean time between failure (MTBF).

You'll also find the latest LSI SandForce controller, Toshiba-built 19nm MLC flash, and 100,000 4K read/write input/output operations per second (IOPS). The bundled RAMDisk utility allows users to dedicate up to 80 percent of a computer's available RAM for use as a high-speed virtual drive, and if you needed any further proof that it's fast, look no further than in the video after the break. Curiously, ASUS isn't talking pricing just yet, but it should start shipping in the very near future.

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Huawei Launches Mediapad 7 Vogue

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Huawei has just launched today a new Mediapad 7 Vogue model. It features computing, reader and SIM support to provide all in one package of a smartphone, tablet and entertainment center . Phablets...

13-inch MacBook Air Mid 2013 Teardown Revealed

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Apple has revealed its new MacBook Air models yesterday during WWDC 2013. A Mid 2013 teardown of 13-inch MacBook Air model is just done after a day of its release by iFixit. The teardown shows that...
    


Apple Launches Refreshed MacBook Air

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Apple Inc. has launched its latest 11" and 13" models of MacBook Air. The light, thin and compact personnel laptop is introduced at WWDC with battery that can stay awake for whole long day. The 13-...
    


Fusion-io’s CEO and co-founder step down, new leadership looks to increase growth

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Fusionio's CEO and cofounder step down, new leadership looks to increase growth

Times are a-changin' for Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io, as the company's CEO David Flynn has resigned alongside co-founder and CMO Rick White. It seems that both are stepping away in order to "pursue entrepreneurial investing activities," leaving the act of running one of the world's leading flash storage makers for Mr. Shane Robison. Effective immediately, Robison will be knighted chairman, chief executive officer and president, offering up over 30 years of experience in prior roles for AT&T, Cadence Design Systems, HP and Apple.

The outfit's stock price hasn't fared so well in the shuffle, and it seems that it's once again battling murmurs that a sale could be on the horizon. Combating that sentiment, Robison was quoted by Bloomberg as saying that a sale "is not my focus." Rather, he's hoping to "grow the company and build on what [it] has." Here's hoping it all pans out -- the world most certainly doesn't need one less company fighting for the death of the conventional hard drive.

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Hot Nikon D3000 DSLR Last Minute Cyber Monday Deal is On Best Buy

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The Best Buy Cyber Monday 2012 Sale already launched on Sunday morning and it just got better in the past hours. Best Buy offers a hot Nikon D3000 Bundle that is the ideal Holiday gift for...

Best Buy Cyber Monday Sale Added Hot Black Friday Laptop Deals

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The Best Buy Cyber Monday 2012 Sale already launched on Sunday morning and it just got better. Best Buy added lots of new Cyber Monday Laptop deals and actually brought back some of their...

Best Buy Cyber Monday Deals Updated with New Deals

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The Best Buy Cyber Monday 2012 Sale launched on Sunday morning. The Best Buy Cyber Monday Sale is a 2-Day event. Below is the list of the Best Buy Cyber Monday 2012 deal highlights that are now...

Samsung bundles Assassin’s Creed III with SSD 840 Pro to spark a sales revolution, ships the 840 line

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Samsung bundles Assassin's Creed III with SSD 840 Pro to spark a sales revolution, ships the 840 line

Samsung's experiment with a Ghost Recon SSD bundle must have been a hit with gamers, since it's coming back for a second round the very same year. The upgrade-minded buying 128GB, 256GB or 512GB versions of the SSD 840 Pro can get a free downloadable copy of Assassin's Creed III for a "limited time" to take advantage of those 540MB/s peak read speeds while they skew the fate of the American Revolutionary War. The bundle comes not-so-coincidentally as Samsung has shipped and priced the wider SSD 840 line itself: while we knew the Pro line's impact on our wallets, the regular models are now ready to sell at prices between $140 for a 120GB drive to $700 for a 500GB model. That's a $50 to $190 savings over the Pro models, but we'll leave it to you to decide whether faster write speeds, slightly more capacity and Connor's secret fight with the Templars are worth the premium.

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Samsung bundles Assassin's Creed III with SSD 840 Pro to spark a sales revolution, ships the 840 line originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LaCie intros Porsche Design drive for Macs with SSD and USB 3.0, helps the speed match the name

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LaCie intros Porsche Design drive for Macs with SSD and USB 30, helps the speed match the name

Porsche Design may not be directly involved in building German supercars, but there are certain expectations to be met, aren't there? LaCie is rolling out a new version of its Porsche Design hard drive skewed towards Mac owners that should offer more of the performance you'd associate with the automotive brand. The P'9223 Slim SSD is a third thinner than its ancestor but carries the option of a 120GB SSD that makes the most of the USB 3.0 port. If all runs well, nearly any Mac launched in 2012 can shuttle data along at a brisk 400MB per second. Demanding Mac fans will need to pay $150 for the flash-based edition to have the P'9223 feel truly Porsche-like; others only have to spend $100 if they're content with the Volkswagen pace of a 500GB spinning drive.

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