{"id":154492,"date":"2016-02-09T08:50:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T06:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=154492"},"modified":"2016-02-09T08:52:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T06:52:02","slug":"sony-launches-ssd-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/154492-sony-launches-ssd-range.html","title":{"rendered":"Sony launches SSD range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has launched its own <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sony-asia.com\/electronics\/external-hard-drives\/slw-m-series#product_details_default\" target=\"_blank\">range of SSDs<\/a><\/strong>, initially available in 240GB and 480GB variants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/10014\/sony-enters-ssd-market-slw-m\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Anandtech<\/strong><\/a> reported that the move is a surprising one from Sony, as the company has stated it wants to focus on\u00a0highly profitable and less competitive markets going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Sony\u2019s SLW-M SSDs come in a 2.5-inch form-factor and use a SATA-6Gbps interface.<\/p>\n<p>Sony said the SSDs feature sequential read speeds up to 560MB\/s, and, according to the report, are based on the Phison PS3110-S10 controller and Toshiba\u2019s TLC flash memory.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More hardware news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/154278-warning-cheap-usb-c-cables-can-kill-your-pc.html\">Warning: cheap USB-C cables can kill your PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/153774-acer-35-curved-ultrawide-gaming-monitor-big-sa-price-tag.html\">Acer 35\u2033 Curved UltraWide gaming monitor \u2013 big SA price tag<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has launched its own range of SSDs, initially available in 240GB and 480GB variants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":154494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,193,793],"class_list":["post-154492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-sony","tag-ssd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154496,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154492\/revisions\/154496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}