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Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the HyperX 3K SSD, a high-performance, lower priced solid-state drive enabling users to experience ultra-responsive gaming, multitasking and multimedia computing power. Powered by the second-generation SandForce SF-2281 processor and based on SATA Rev. 3.0 (6 Gb/s) interface, Kingston HyperX 3K SSD is the ideal high-performance upgrade solution for budget-minded gamers, enthusiasts, multitaskers, overclockers and system builders.

A graduate student speaking at the 10th Usenix Conference on File and Storage Technologies this week, said that as NAND flash densities increase, so do issues such as read and write latency and data errors. This is something we've known about for some time, but it appears that that many did not. Researchers tested 45 different NAND flash chips that ranged in size from 72 nanometer (nm) circuitry to 25nm technology. The chips came from six vendors and they found that program speed (write speed) for pages in a flash block suffered dramatic and predictable variations in latency.