Elgato launches the Thunderbolt SSD, a portable high-speed storage drive. Featuring an elegant, solid all-metal enclosure, the portable SSD is probably the fastest single-drive storage solution for your Mac. Thanks to Thunderbolt interface, Elgato’s SSD offers up to 270MB/s transfer rate, which is 3 times and 7 times faster than using FireWire 800 and USB 2.0, respectively.

Silicon Power adds to its line of solid state drives the new Extreme E25 series. The new drive uses SATA II interface and is equipped with DDR2 DRAM cache …

Mach Xtreme (MX Technology) announced its new affordable MX-STARTER PREMIUM Series solid state drive for mainstream consumers, offering improved performance than the original MX-STARTER.  The new series is based on MLC NAND flash and comes in 2.5-inch form factor with SATA II interface. It has 64MB DDR2 cache memory.

Hitachi announced shipping of  the new Ultrastar SSD400S.B series solid state drive, which is the industry’s first to use 25-nanometer (nm) SLC (single-level cell) NAND flash. The 2.5-inch SSD400S.B uses 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface to deliver high performance, and is available in 100GB, 200GB and 400GB capacities. Using SLC flash, the SSD offers up to 5x higher endurance than MLC-based SSDs.

We have probably missed out SanDisk’s X100 series solid state drive when we report the launch of the company’s Extreme series. Intended for client computing markets, the …

SanDisk announced its newest high-performance Extreme series solid state drive for the consumer market. According to the flash memory maker, the new SSD is up to 10 times faster than a 7200RPM hard drive, allows computer users to quickly boot and shut down their systems, launch applications faster and reduce wait times.

Intel announced its latest solid state drive, the SSD 520 series using Intel’s 25nm NAND memory process technology. To deliver enhanced performance for PC enthusiasts, gamers, professionals or small-medium businesses (SMBs), Intel’s new SSD uses SATA III interface and an LSI SandForce flash storage processor with an Intel co-defined and validated firmware release.

Transcend launches its new SSD720 series SATA III solid state drive with a ultra slim 7mm form factor to address limitations of ultra thin notebooks. …

RunCore announced its new series of solid state drive, the Pro-V MAX with SATA III 6Gbps interface for enhanced performance. Utilizing the SandForce SF-2281 controller with optimized …

Kingston announced its new SSDNow V+200 solid state drives, which are “ideal high-performance upgrade solution for the performance minded yet cost-conscious business or home user”. The latest SSDNow series uses SATA 3.0 6Gbps interface and utilizes SandForce SF-2281 processor for enhanced performance with up to 535MB/s sequential read and 480MB/s sequential write speeds.