Items tagged with SSD
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 on our SSD-watch screens...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Upgrading your notebook's legacy hard drive to a new, fast SSD is a substantial upgrade that makes good sense for a number of reasons. First, Solid State Drives offer orders of magnitude higher performance under certain conditions, with blazingly fast random access times. They also...
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Upgrading your notebook's legacy hard drive to a new, fast SSD is a substantial upgrade that makes good sense for a number of reasons. First, Solid State Drives offer orders of magnitude higher performance under certain conditions, with blazingly fast random access times. They also...
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OCZ Technology is at it again, this time pushing out a new range of solid state drives for the laypeople in the crowd. The Indilinx-based devices, which proudly boast a Solid 2 Series label, are designed to slot neatly into notebooks that can hold 2.5" form factor drives. The MLC based...
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Just a few months after Kingston Technology came forward with its SSDNow V 'Value' series of solid state drives, the outfit is now issuing a slight upgrade with the SSDNow V+. Promising higher capacity, higher IOPS and faster read/write...
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The quirk affecting Intel's 34nm SSDs is one that's likely to trouble just a small minority of users, but it was big enough for the outfit to temporarily halt shipments a few weeks back until a firmware fix was published.Today, that very fix is being made available to the public, and it fixes...
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A common concern with the current crop of Solid State Drives is the performance penalty associated with block-rewriting. The flash memory used on today's SSDs is comprised of cells that usually contain 4KB pages that are arranged in blocks...
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We've already taken a sneak peek at OCZ Technology's Colossus--which is quite possibly the most exciting thing to happen to desktop storage since the advent of the VelociRaptor--and now we know exactly when it's coming. Or, maybe not quite exactly, but close enough! Thanks to a tidbit from OCZ...
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Growing tired of solid state news yet? Nah, impossible, right? As the HDD looks increasingly aged, SSDs are stepping in at an alarming rate to replace 'em. Though, all the power saving, speed and durability in the world won't matter if prices don't stoop down to reasonable levels, and that'll...
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Fusion-io announced TPC-H benchmark results today in a bid to raise its own visibility and promote solid-state storage as an alternative solution in the enterprise market. The company's PCI-Express-based products turned in a score of...
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To say that there's a lot going on in the solid state drive market at the moment would be the understatement of the year. The SSD market is so hot right now, there is a seemingly never-ending stream of new or updated products, that outdo their predecessors in nearly every way.Just this past week alone, we brought you a full review of Intel's...
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