All the stories tagged with ssd
Micro SATA SSD Drives Get Smaller And Slimmer, Measuring In At Just 3.3mm Thick
11/03/2010, Foremay Inc., a leading OEM manufacturer of industrial SSD drives has announced that it has begun to ship its 1.8-inch micro SATA SSD drives in volume to commercial, industrial and military clients. The new drives feature improved read and write [...]
Kingston New SSDNow V+ 100 Offers Performance Improvements
11/01/2010, Kingston has introduced its SSDNow V+ 100 solid-state drive that features a unique self-optimization feature. The beauty of this drive is that it features its own internal garbage collection to properly clear out unused storage and optimize the drive regardless [...]
OCZ RevoDrive X2 PCIe SSD Offers Some Juicy Performance
10/28/2010, If you love performance and have money to burn, you’ll be drooling over OCZ’s RevoDrive X2 PCI-Express SSD. This second iteration feels very much like the first, but offers a juicy 740MB/s and up to 120,000 IOPS of performance, up [...]
PhotoFast Air USB3 Adapter Turns Your MacBook Air SSD Into A Portable SSD
10/27/2010, One of the few things that you could upgrade on Apple’s new 11.6-inch MacBook Air would be its tiny Toshiba SSD and PhotoFast has an interesting way to do that. The Air USB3 Adapter allows you to easily transfer your [...]
Iomega External USB 3.0 SSD drive launched
10/15/2010, Iomega has just announced an external USB 3.0 SSD (Solid state Drive) flash disk that is aimed at professionals and storage enthusiasts. The sleek looking 1.8″ storage device is encased in aluminum and the very nature of solid state storage [...]
Mushkin has new SandForce-based SSDs
10/13/2010, Mushkin is back with a new SSD that will be based on SandForce’s SF-2500 and SF-2600 SSD processors, bringing a promised 500MB/s read/write sequential transfer rate, as well as up to 60,000 sustained random read/write IOPS and advanced ECC with [...]
New SandForce SF-2000 Chip Offers Improved Performance
10/08/2010, SandForce will be showing off its new SF-2000 range of SSD processors at the Storage Networking World Exhibition next week. The chip is meant for enterprise and other heavy-duty tasks, sporting a 6Gbps SATA interface and the industry’s first sustained, [...]
Samsung Introduces High-performance, Low-power 100GB And 200GB SSD Drives For The Enterprise Market
10/07/2010, Samsung has announced that mass production of its 3.5-inch 100GB and 200GB SSDs for the enterprise market has begun, a solution that is touted to help businesses lower their total cost of ownership over time as it increases performance and [...]
Intel 25nm SSD could offer superior lifespan
10/06/2010, There is one thing about archives of digital data that bugs us – there are moments where you will need to make a transition from one format to another, since nothing lasts forever. With film for example, all you need [...]
Hitachi Hybrid Optical+SSD+HDD drive
10/04/2010, [CEATEC 2010] Hitachi has decided that components have been getting small enough to build hybrid drives that merge optical, SSD and hard disk technology in the same package. The SSD can be used as a primary drive (OS+apps), which is [...]
OCZ Ibis Solid State Drive gets off on the right footing
09/29/2010, Solid state drives are generally noted for their superior data transfer speed, but OCZ decided to up the ante this time around with HSDL speed – where this new interface idea intends to bypass the bandwidth limitations of standard SATA/SAS [...]
OCZ Announces Its New Onyx 2 Series SSD Drives
09/27/2010, With solid state drives (SSDs) becoming increasingly popular, OCZ has announced its latest SSD, the Onyx 2 Series. These 2.5-inch drives claim to be priced lower than competing products, but will still offer SandForce controllers that offer maximum read and [...]
PhotoFast PowerDrive SSD is zippy on paper
09/17/2010, If being a speed demon is the name of the game, then the PhotoFast PowerDrive PCI Express 2.0 SSD should be your cup of tea. It basically offers a read speed of 1.4GBps as well as a write speed that [...]
