Since June, LG P220 has been seen lying around. Nobody knows that the ultraportable houses OCZ’s new 2.5-inch SSD. The traditional 2.5 inch drives measures 9.5 mm in height but the new “custom designed” drive is just 7.5mm thick. That is 25% slimmer than the usual SSD. Only the 128GB variant is confirmed. OCZ hints that more LG laptops will feature the SSDs soon.

Source: Engadget

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Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS), one of the world’s biggest optical drive manufacturers for desktop PCs and laptops, recently unveiled the world’s first Blu-ray Disc combo drive with a built-in SSD specifically for use in notebooks and other types of portable devices. They’re calling it the HyDrive, and from the looks of it, it just might be our ticket to widespread adoption of SSDs in notebooks and other portable gadgets.
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Now that Dell actually has plans to release a set of touchscreen tablet slates soon, I wonder what’s the use of getting a Dell Mini 9 modded into a tablet. For the sheer awesome geek cred of course!

The B-rock is now selling his beloved tablet netbook to fund some important housing choices and you can help him out. He’s offering a lot to go with the modded device including a lot of internal gadgets like a TV tuner, accelerometer, GPS, and Bluetooth plus a maxed out rig of 2GB RAM and 32GB SSD. He’s also up for a couple of weeks worth of after-sales tech support should you need it.

If you think you’ve heard about this before, well it was featured in a lot of blogs before and he did previously put it up for sale as a hackintosh though Apple balked at that and that sale didn’t go through. If you want to grab this fine little device, head over to eBay right now and bid on it! B-rock will ship to folks in North America and some parts of Europe.

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A member of the classic Eee User forum named phertiker (cool nick!) just tore apart his own Asus Eee PC T101MT just for the fun of it. Well, that and he really wanted to stick an SSD in to it. It voided his warranty, but hey you got to see something a few mortals have yet glanced upon – the innards of Asus’ latest touchscreen wonder. More gory details in the link below (plus a guide to the tear-down).

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SSD prices sure are dropping. Super Talent is going to be selling a pretty cheap solid state drive soon, and it will go for just US$65 a pop. For roughly the price of a 320GB drive you can get their 8GB SSD. Yes, I know it’s not something to celebrate but it’s cheap if all you need is a speedy boot drive.

The read/write for this puppy are 90MB/s and 30MB/s respectively. They are also going to sell 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions as well.

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One of the most ideal setups for mobile work is having an SSD paired with a Pine Trail netbook or even better a CULV notebook. OCZ and Active Media, which we mentioned before, are banking on people upgrading to one of these solid state disks that gives a pleasant performance boost while keeping battery life high.

Intel gives us another option with its X25-V Value SATA SSD. The drive offers read/write speeds of 170MB/s and 35MB/s respectively. you can get it for US$125, a bit higher than the usual fare though you have the chip makers stellar reputation to rely upon. And yes, if you did a double take there, Intel does make disk drives though they don’t do the platter-based hard drives; those are so 2009.

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A couple of new SSDs have shown up this week. First up is Active Media which introduces a new version of its Sabertooth line of 1.8″ SSDs. The SaberTooth ZT Turbo ZIF SSD is a solid-state drive for your HP Mini 1000, iPod Classic and other devices that use the smaller form factor drive for storage.

It has a ZIF interface and has a read/write speed of 100MB/s and 85MB/s respectively. It comes in 32GB and 64GB flavors, compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Prices are at US$169.95 and US$289.95, available now at Active Media’s Amazon store.

Next is the Onyx Series SSDs from OCZ. It’s different from other 2.5″ drives in that it has breached the $100 price point for its 32GB version, something few others can claim. Read/write speed for this SSD are 125MB/s and 70MB/s respectively. It’s a great option for those who value speed over storage, something most netbooks need with their slower, power-sipping processors.

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I’m a big fan of Corsair. I’ve been using Corsair drives as a bootable USB drive for quite sometime now and they are really fast, reliable and the rubber casing makes it very tough. I’m sure that their new entry to the SSD market will be just as widely praised.

They released two versions the Reactor series which boasts a maximum read/write of 250MB/s and 170MB/s respectively and the Nova series has a maximum read/write of 270MB/s and 190MB/s respectively. The Reactor series also has a miniUSB port so you can use it as an external hard drive by just using the appropriate cable.

The Reactor comes in 60GB and 120GB versions. The Nova is available in 64GB and 128GB. You can buy them from Amazon right now.

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If you want your netbook dressed to the nines, Frontier has just what you are looking for. The Japanese company announced an upgrade to its UX series. You can get a version that has WiMAX, GPS and up to a 128GB SSD.

Frontier UX

• 10.1″ 1024 x 600 glossy display
• 1.66 Atom N450
• 2GB RAM
• up to 128GB SSD
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• 802.11b/g/n WiFi
• removable DVD drive (swappable with an HDD)
• 6.4 hour battery life
• Weight: 1.4kg

We covered their netbook before for the odd choice of including a DVD drive in one model. You can get the 32GB SSD for ¥69,800 (US$778).

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SSDs are about to get cheaper and much more roomier, thanks to IMFT, a joint venture between Intel and Micron which has started production of 25nm NAND flash, seeing the first shipments of final products to appear before the end of 2010. Volume production actually won’t happen until sometime in Q2, but you cant count all your eggs in the basket now and rest assured that the money you save up for Christmas this year will be well spent on Intel’s new SSDs when they finally come out. As part of Intel’s 3rd generation X25-M SSDs, these will come in at 160GB, 320GB and 600GB variants. The question remains, how much will these sell for? At the moment, SSDs can be considered affordable mostly by enthusiasts, but when products using the new 25nm process come out, perhaps the mainstream market will finally be able to afford it.

Via Anandtech

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