Samsung announces a new line of SSD (solid state drives) specifically designed for laptops and desktops. The Samsung SSD 830 series will be available as early as October this year. SSDs are much more convenient and optimized data storage devices than the traditional spinning hard drives. For those who didn’t know, SSDs work like USB flash drives. They are faster and consume lesser energy. Hence, lesser heat output and enhanced reliability.

The SSD 830 series has high-speed Serial ATA Revision 3.0 interface. This doubles the data bandwidth compared to the SSD 470 series. That said, the SSD 470 series is pretty impressive itself. This new feature should push notebook users to upgrade to the SSD830 as opposed to building a whole new PC unit.

The SSD 830 series is also brushed in metal enclosure. The Samsung Magician software is also pre-installed in the drive. This program finetunes the SSDs. Samsung also offers a full upgrade package to easily and safely transfer your Windoes installation to the new SSD. The upgrade kits include USB to SATA cable. Capacities for this new line of SSDs are 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512 GB. More details will be available on its official launch this October.

Source: Notebook Review

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SSD producers, Active Media, have a range of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB SSDs that fit many netbook models. The company have created a video guides on how users can upgrade their SSD. The company has focused on showing how to do the procedure on the Asus Eee PC 901 and the Dell Inspirion Mini 9.

In the videos, the company shows how to open the netbooks to get to the SSD card and replace it. Unfortunately, instructions aren’t included for how to backup your data on to the new SSD and so you may need to re-install the OS along with backing up your files before hand and then moving them onto the new SSD.
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