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Pliant jumps aboard the SSD bandwagon

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Pliant jumps aboard the SSD bandwagon

Pliant Technology is the latest vendor to join the solid state drive space with the announcement of 2.5- and 3.5-inch enterprise flash drives (EFD). Read full story

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