Super Talent today announced its patented RAIDDrive, which dramatically increases the performance and slot capacity of PCI Express-based storage solution. The new RAIDDrive is the market's largest and most innovative server-based solid-state storage solution, and an extension of its patented technology from the RAIDSSD product lines. No word yet on pricing, but we have asked Super Talent for more details.

RAIDDrives support up to 2 TB of MLC or SLC Nand Flash memories, have a turbocharged DRAM Cache, and the RAIDDrive ES is fully battery backed to protect data in the event of power loss. The RAIDDrives connect through a PCIe Gen. 2.0 x8 interface and are capable of delivering sequential Read speeds of up to 1.2GB/s, sequential Write speeds of up to 1.3GB/s. More performance details will be unveiled in June. As an optional feature users will be able to configure the drives with an internal RAID5 capability to deliver an extra level of data protection for mission critical applications.

Zer01 Communications is a new mobile phone service provider that promises to offer a nationwide unlimited voice and data plan for $69.95 per month (including taxes and fees), with no contracts and using unlocked phones. These are truly unlimited plans, without any qualifying quotation marks around the word “unlimited”–you won’t find any data caps here. The reason why Zer01 can do this is that the company is taking a very different and innovative approach with its new service that actually bypasses the traditional

HTC will soon launch a new Messenger-class Windows Mobile Smartphone called the HTC Snap. The Snap will also be sold in the U.S. beginning in the summer, but the unit’s American name is S522.

The HTC S522 is a non-touchscreen smartphone running Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard.  Other features include onboard Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and aGPS, 256MB of flash ROM, a 2MP camera and a microSDHC memory card slot.

No word on carriers or pricing, but we’re looking forward to this new Messenger from HTC.

ASUS just announced that its benchmark-crushing W90Vp Republic of Gamers notebook is officially available to frame-rate hungry gamers in North America. With an introductory MSRP of $2,499 USD, the W90Vp is a desktop replacement notebook that offers record-breaking performance in a stylish, aggressively-designed chassis inspired by high-performance luxury vehicles. The technology press has already had a chance to put the W90Vp through its paces, and has concluded it is easily the worlds most powerful gaming notebook.

Based on an ASUS motherboard using an Intel X38 desktop chipset, the W90Vp boasts a Discrete Graphics Engine (DGE) using a pair of ATI Radeon 4870 videocards with 1GB of video memory in CrossfireX, 6GB of system memory, and an overclockable Intel Core 2 Quad-core processor for class-leading performance. The DGE with its dual Radeon cards offers mind-blowing performance, allowing it to reach over 15,000 3Dmarks in 3DMark06 in overclocked mode a score that puts all notebooks, and some desktops, to shame.

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The reality of the economic downturn has affected every facet of our lives including the computer industry. While Intel continues to price their CPUs in the $999 price range with little change but a higher clock speed and higher speed QPI, AMD is pricing their CPUs for the mainstream user, with reasonable prices for reasonably performing CPUs. The Phenom II X4 940 CPU is available online for $219, making it price competitive with the Intel Core i7 920 CPU. Performance on the CPU is as expected and AMD is slowly catching up to the Intel platform in speed as in many cases the CPUs are identical in performance but lacking in others. Note that an AM2+ motherboard+ the other components with a 940 are much less expensive than a similar Intel platform. If you want an AM3 motherboard note that this CPU will not work with those as it has two extra pins versus the AM3 platform. In any event I will do a Socket AM3 Phenom II 710 review which will cover the AM3 platform with more detail.

WiMAX has definitely had a difficult time taking off here in the US, but with Sprint hoping to expand the service to around a dozen major metropolitan areas before the dawn of 2011, there’s still hope for a late surge in adoption. And honestly, it’s devices like this that’ll make it happen. Clearwire has just announced an interesting new product that could eventually make you think twice about ditching your current ISP and going strictly WiMAX: the CLEAR Spot. Put simply, this is a portable WiMAX modem

As expected, and despite the fact it did so on April 1st, RIM on Wednesday launched the BlackBerry App World, the RIM answer to Apple’s own App Store. BlackBerry App World, besides being the store itself, is an app you download from RIM’s site. System requirements for the app: BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.2 or higherBlackBerry smartphones with trackballs or SurePress™ touch screenBlackBerry App World is only available to customers in US, Canada and UK and may not be available on all networksBlackBerry

It’s not quite as delicious as a PlayStation 3 price cut, but if you’ve been waiting years upon years to get your hands on a decade-old game console, now’s the time. This week, Sony has officially lowered the MSRP of its long standing PlayStation 2 console to $99.99, which marks the first universal price drop on it since March of 2007 (when it dropped to $129.99). Sony’s PS2 has been a raging success, no matter how you look at it. Just think — how often do you see brand new Nintendo GameCube consoles for sale

Please Super Talent, let this not be a joke. Here on the always comical first day of April, Super Talent has announced its reaction to Fusion-io’s ioDrive and OCZ’s Z Drive: the patented RAIDDrve. Put simply, this is Super Talent’s own PCI Express-based SSD solution, designed to bring quick, durable SSD functionality straight to the motherboard via the lightning fast PCI Express bus interface. The device is positioned as an extension of its RAIDSSD product line, and it supports upwards of 2TB of MLC or SLC NAND

The Seagate Momentus 7200.3 laptop hard drive offers the an even combination of high performance, capacity and mobility in a 2.5-inch drive. The 320GB version that LR is looking at today is ideal for mainstream and performance-class laptops, small form factor PCs and many other small or mobile environments where performance and size are critical.