Items tagged with 'SSD'
SanDisk's 2nd-Gen pSSD Used In Sony's Slim VAIO X Notebook
Two things we like are solid state drives and skinny notebooks, so you can only imagine our excitement over this one. Sony's super-slim, highly stylish VAIO X laptop is relying on SanDisk's modular SSD, giving this thing an extra boost of speed it may otherwise miss out on. We've shown time and time again in testing that... Read More
Fusion-io ioXtreme PCI Express SSD Sneak Peek!
If you've been watching our previous coverage of Fusion-io's almost too good be true PCI Express SSD products, you'll know that while the company makes no bones about the fact that their enterprise class cards are ridiculously expensive, they are also planning on delivering an "enthusiast" class card that will align better... Read More
Intel 34nm X25-M Gen 2 SSD Performance Update
Intel has just released a firmware update for their 34nm Gen X25-M solid state drives that not only boosts sequential write performance, but adds support for the TRIM feature as well. A performance optimization tool is also being release today, for users of Windows Vista and XP, who won't be able to take advantage of TRIM.We... Read More
Kingston Announces 40GB SSD Desktop Upgrade Kit
We just got our hands on a new product Kingston is announcing today, targeted at PC owners in the market for a relatively inexpensive SSD upgrade to boost system performance.Kingston is marketing the new 40GB Desktop Upgrade Kit as a performance upgrade for existing system owners hindered by the performance of their spinning... Read More
Intel 34nm X25-M Gen 2 SSD Performance Update
In all of our recent solid state disk (SSD) coverage that featured one of Intel's X25-M drives, a common, underlying performance trend consistently emerged. The Intel drives were always amongst the top performers in read performance, and were unquestionably the best with regard to random writes. However, in sequential... Read More
pureSilicon Intros Rugged Renegade R2 Solid State Drive
pureSilicon may not be a mainstay like Western Digital or Seagate in the storage arena, but it's a growing force in the world of solid state drives. The company's latest offering is a high-performance, rugged drive that promises blistering transfer rates, densities up to 256GB and a rugged/durable design. For those scared... Read More
OCZ Z-Drive m84 PCI-Express SSD Review
An interesting thing about NAND Flash SSD (Solid State Drive) technologies, beyond the fact that the market is flush with competitive product offerings, is that the technology itself is very flexible and adaptable to a number of different design approaches, other just the straight-forward SATA-based SSDs. Take for example... Read More
OCZ Z-Drive m84 PCI-Express SSD Review
An interesting thing about NAND Flash SSD (Solid State Drive) technologies, beyond the fact that the market is flush with competitive product offerings, is that the technology itself is very flexible and adaptable to a number of different design approaches, other just the straight-forward SATA-based SSDs. ... Read More
SuperTalent Partners With Toshiba On Super-Secure UltraDrive DX SSDs
SuperTalent has generally stuck to its own label when it came time to pump out a new slate of solid state drivers, but this time the company is tapping Toshiba for a little help. Just this past week, the company launched its co-branded UltraDrive DX SSDs that offer two levels of security to prevent unauthorized data theft... Read More
Super Talent Launches Co-Branded Toshiba SSDs
Super Talent announced the new UltraDrive DX SSDs with two levels of security. Co-branded with Toshiba, the new drives will be sold through Super Talent's North American retail and distribution channels. The first level of security in the UltraDrive DX supports password protection with an encrypted password. For additional... Read More
Toshiba Intros 30GB/62GB mSATA And Half-Slim SSD Drives
Haven't you heard? There's a new connector in town! Over at IDF this week, the SATA IO Working Group is on hand to tout its newest interface standard, the low-profile mini-SATA (mSATA). Designed mainly to give a formal connector to smaller SSDs that fit into netbooks and notebooks, the standard is being shown off by Toshiba,... Read More
Toshiba, Samsung Argue Over The Future of 3D Flash
The burgeoning SSD (solid state drive) market has been a modest success story over the past few years. Drive performance and capacity have both increased at a fair clip, while initial sky-high costs have at least fallen into the stratosphere. The two major factors keeping sSD's from broader market penetration are... Read More
OCZ Announces Z-Drive Bootable PCI-Express SSD
OCZ unveiled the Z-Drive, a PCI-Express Solid State Drive (SSD) today. The new Z-Drive is an all-in-one high performance plug-and-play bootable PCI-E SSD that provides a cost-effective means for enterprise customers to take advantage of solid state drive technology. The Z-Drive is designed to significantly reduce both the... Read More
Super Talent's 2TB RAIDDrive SSD To Ship In Early October
Super Talent's Two TeraByte PCIe RAIDDrive SSD to Begin Shipping Early OctoberNew SSD Architecture Breaks Storage Performance Bottleneck with Sequential Transfer Speeds up to 1.4GB/sec San Jose, California - September 16, 2009 - Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules,... Read More
Pliant Technology Unveils Lightning EFDs, High Performance SSDs
Pliant Technology Unveils Enterprise Flash Drive Family: Industry’s Highest Performance and Most Reliable Flash Storage Devices Pliant Lightning EFDs Deliver 2-4 Times Faster Performance and 10 Times Higher Data Reliability than Existing SSDs; Provide Dramatic Data Center Cost and Energy Savings Milpitas, Calif. – Sept.... Read More
OCZ Z-Drive PCI-Express SSD Re-Emerges
You know how we're rather enamored with anything to do with Solid State Disk technology around here these days. There are so many new, ground-breaking concepts coming to market lately, that we almost don't know where or what to dial our radar on next. One product that has definitely set off a few pings... Read More
4-Way SSD Round-Up Redux: OCZ, Corsair, PhotoFast
Solid State storage products continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Over the last year or so, solid state drives, or SSDs, specifically targeted at PC enthusiasts have transformed from buggy, generally underperforming products to the preferred, high-end storage solution for performance hungry enthusiasts. Available capacities... Read More
4-Way SSD Round-Up Redux: OCZ, Corsair, PhotoFast
Solid State storage products continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Over the last year or so, solid state drives, or SSDs, specifically targeted at PC enthusiasts have transformed from buggy, underperforming products to the preferred, high-end storage solution for performance hungry enthusiasts and even more mission critical... Read More
OCZ Technology Unveils the Agility EX SSD
OCZ Technology Unveils the Agility EX The Industry’s Most Affordable SLC-Based Solid State DriveSan Jose, CA—August 26, 2009—OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, power supplies, and solid state drives, today unveiled the OCZ Agility EX Series which... Read More
Corsair Adds 256GB Model To Extreme SSD Lineup
Wow, talk about a hasty refresh cycle! Just a month after Corsair introduced to the solid state world its Extreme series of SSDs, the company has already expanded the lineup by one. Today, the newest member of the lineup is making its debut, and with a 256GB capacity rating, we're pretty sure it'll be catching your attention... Read More
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