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PCI Express solid state drives weren't easy to use at first, since they lacked boot support, but they eventually overcame that limitation. Now, the drives are gaining caching technology support too. For those unaware, Intel Smart Response technology, and similar solutions, make a PC think an HDD and an SSD are... |
21 April 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Intel is almost ready to start selling a line of solid state drives based on 25nm HET-MLC NAND flash memory chips, a sort of blend between SLC and MLC NAND.
Granted, that isn't the correct way to put it. Rather, HET-MLC is a special kind of MLC (multi-level cell) NAND memory that has endurance levels closer to... |
11 April 2012
09:46 GMT |
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There are motherboards that still have no USB 3.0 ports, or just don't have enough of them, so Kurotoshikou decided to release the USB3.0R-P4-PCIe.
Powered by a Renesas μPD720201 chipset, it uses the PCI Express 2.0 x1 interface to power four USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ports.
Only three of them are on the rear expa... |
19 March 2012
12:05 GMT |
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OCZ's latest solid state drives are going to be used in Colfax's latest servers based on the latest processors from Intel which are designed with, you got it, the latest incarnation of the Sandy Bridge architecture: Sandy Bridge-EP.
Colfax decided to do what many other companies did, namely use Intel'... |
12 March 2012
09:21 GMT |
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At this year's CeBIT expo, Super Talent made sure to be present and show off some of its newest and best NAND Flash-based storage devices. One of the things on show at the company's booth in Hannover, Germany is the RAIDDrive upStream, a sort of middle ground between normal SSDs and PCI Express ones. Stra... |
9 March 2012
05:35 GMT |
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A couple of months after finalizing the design of its first in-house developed SATA SSD processor, OCZ is now announcing a new SSD controller co-developed together with Marvell that ditches the SATA interface entirely and features native PCI Express support.Based on the Marvell 88NV9145, the new SSD processor is code... |
6 January 2012
11:24 GMT |
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There is a certain phrase roaming the web called “awesome but impractical” and this may very well be the epithet best suited for the newly announced PCI Express 4.0 specification.
Normally, any leap in a certain technology would be welcomed with open arms but, in the case of PCI Express 4.0, it might be... |
30 November 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Intel made the official announcement of the Knights Corner parallel processing accelerator but some things weren't perfectly clear, so we reached out to Intel, who were able, and willing, to answer a few of our questions.To offer some context, Knights Corner is Intel's answer to the NVIDIA Tesla and all ot... |
16 November 2011
18:18 GMT |
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Fusion I-O doesn't exactly refer to the ioDrive Octal as a solid state drive (SSD), but that is, basically, what the device is, although, true enough, its construction, capacity and performance are enough to make it qualify as a product category all on its own.
Some may call this boasting, until they actually ... |
15 November 2011
10:44 GMT |
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OCZ just proved that it hasn't only been working on TLC NAND Flash chips, having also finished the latest PCI Express SSD series, named RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS.
The new solid state drives that OCZ created are a series that operate on the PCI Express x4 interface.
They are called RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS and RevoDriv... |
7 November 2011
10:40 GMT |
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People who missed the announcement of a new USB 3.0 host controller can be sure Buffalo didn't, as the company used said chip in the making of its new USB 3.0 card.
Some motherboards might not have built-in USB 3.0 ports, or so but they are insufficient, so there are those things called add-in-boards.
Bu... |
15 October 2011
06:02 GMT |
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The motherboard market is bound to see a new wave of product launches as soon as Intel brings out the LGA 2011 socket, so ASRock is, naturally, getting ready to put on as good a showing as possible, as enforces by a recent leak.
This once, it is ASRock that has caught the eye of market watchers, even if it wasn&#... |
30 September 2011
02:35 GMT |
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High Point, a company well known for developing high-performance storage controllers, has just announced the introduction of a new HBA (host bus adapter) that enables users to RAID up to four external USB 3.0 drives.The add-on card is known as the RocketU 1144AR USB 3.0 and connects to the computer via a second gener... |
19 September 2011
05:38 GMT |
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Even though the first add-on cards to support the third version of the PCI Express standard have yet to arrive to market, PCI SIG, the group behind the development of this technology, is confident the premier devices to use the fourth iteration of PCIe will arrive in about four years from now.
The statement was ma... |
17 September 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Solid state drives are powerful enough on their own already, but Angelbird decided to see them working together, so it created the Wings PCIe x4 card, though availability has not yet been reached.
Users probably don't need an update on just why solid state drives are so popular, even if they aren't exac... |
13 September 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Magma, a company specialized in developing and manufacturing PCI & PCI Express expansion systems for servers, desktops and portable platforms, has recently announced the introduction of an external PCI Express expansion chassis that connects to the computer via a high-speed Thunderbolt interconnect.The stylish alumin... |
8 September 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Solid state drives may not be overly popular on the enterprise front, but inventions like IDT's newest PCI Express switch definitely help with their reputation, what with the higher speed and larger capacity potential and everything else.IDT issued a press release, not long ago, in which it announces its newest... |
8 September 2011
08:12 GMT |
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OCZ has recently announced the release of one of the company's most ambitious products to date, the Revo Drive Hybrid, which pairs together a hard drive with an SSD unit inside a single PCI Express storage solution.
This way, users will be able to benefit from the large storage capacities offered by today�... |
31 August 2011
10:01 GMT |
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The Serial ATA International Organization has just announced that it's working on developing a new industry standard, dubbed SATA Express, that combines the strengths of the SATA and PCI Express interfaces in order to enable fast storage devices to reach transfer speeds up to 16Gb/s.SATA Express will come in two... |
10 August 2011
03:36 GMT |
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OCZ has been touting the performance of its Z-Drive R4 PCI Express solid state drives ever since the starting days of Computex 2011, and now the time has finally come for the company to release the latest and greatest enterprise SSDs.
The Z-Drive R4 is available in two standard configurations, a half-height versio... |
3 August 2011
03:25 GMT |
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OCZ Technology, a well-known manufacturer of solid state drives and other computer hardware components, has just announced that it plans to introduce its next-generation high-performance Z-Drive R4 PCI Express SSD during a conference call scheduled to take place on August 2nd.
“Ryan Petersen, CEO, will provi... |
1 August 2011
08:53 GMT |
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The PCI Special Interest group has just announced that it plans to start developing a cabled version of PCI Express that should be able to deliver transfer speeds up to 32Gbits and that could prove to be a competitor for Intel's Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect.The new technology is based on the third generat... |
23 June 2011
04:35 GMT |
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According to a leaked roadmap, in the third quarter of this year Intel planned to launch its first PCI Express SSD, but it now seems like the company has decided to delay the release of this device until the forth quarter of the year.The solid state drive in question goes by the name of Ramsdale (720-series) and... |
6 June 2011
16:31 GMT |
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OCZ has been feeling pretty adventurous lately when it comes to designing SSDs, but few of their products have been more ambitious than the Revo Drive Hybrid unit that the company has on display at Computex this year.
As probably you must have guessed by now, OCZ's new PCI Express solid state drive is based o... |
1 June 2011
08:42 GMT |
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At this year's Computex fair, OCZ has presented its fastest enterprise PCI Express SSD to date, the Z-Drive R4 88, which was used by the company in order to build the first system capable of exceeding the 1 million IOPS barrier.
OCZ's latest drive is powered by no less than eight enterprise-class SandFor... |
1 June 2011
06:07 GMT |
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Solid state drives have been getting faster and more capacious, and it looks like Texas Memory Systems figured this was a good time to have one make good use of the PC Express interface.Solid state drives have been getting quite popular ever since they were first developed several years ago, and it looks like their ... |
23 May 2011
03:28 GMT |
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HighPoint Technologies, a company well renowned for its advanced storage solutions, has just announced the introduction of a new host bus adapter (HBA) solution range which can support up to 24 internal and eight external SAS 6Gbps ports.
The new RocketRAID series includes four HBA models and all of these use the ... |
11 May 2011
04:29 GMT |
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The world of solid state drives just became larger now that a certain company decided to set aside the SATA connection for a while and delivered a model designed to be connected to a certain other motherboard interface.
PCI Express solid state drives are far less common than 2.5-inch models designed to work on SA... |
29 April 2011
02:36 GMT |
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Although many speculated that Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge processors would feature an integrated PCI Express Gen 3 controller, up until recently nobody knew for sure this was the case, but a new Intel roadmap that made its way to the Web comes to confirm these rumors and provide us with additional details about ... |
29 March 2011
16:01 GMT |
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The mSATA solid state disk form factor gathered quite a bit of steam since its introduction as Intel, together with other manufacturers, have introduced an important number of such compact SSD devices until now, and the list is set to grow even bigger as SuperTalent just announced that is also has plans to join the p... |
23 March 2011
06:21 GMT |
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Tyan just announced that it has completed validating 160GB and 640GB ioDrives from Fusion-io in two of the company's most powerful HPC computing motherboards released until now, the S7025 and S8232, so the PCI Express SSDs are guaranteed to be compatible with a wide series of operating systems and applications w... |
23 March 2011
04:58 GMT |
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OCZ showcased more than its fair share of novelty products at the 2011 CeBIT fair as the company's stand was full of soon to be released solid state disks, including a wide range of enterprise solutions that can go up to 8TB in capacity and use the company's proprietary HSDL interface.Starting things off is... |
4 March 2011
07:03 GMT |
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Super Talent has just announced the introduction of a new series of PCI Express solid state drives, which is built around the new Marvell 88NV9143 controller and standardized DDR ONFi 2 flash memory.
The new series is actually comprised of a pair SSD models, the CoreStore MV and the CoreStore MP, the main differen... |
22 February 2011
01:53 GMT |
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Although providing a first glimpse at their Z-Drive R3 PCI-Express SSDs back at CES 2011, OCZ has decided to finally make these high-end, ultra-fast, enterprise-oriented storage solutions official, catering to the needs of system architects looking for performance, reliability, and design flexibility, as well as a co... |
28 January 2011
01:27 GMT |
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Slated to be released in the third quarter of this year, Intel's Sandy Bridge EP processors will feature as much as 40 PCI Express 3.0 lanes as well as a special memory controller design that changes the operating speed of the DDR3 modules according to the number of DIMMS installed.These new processors will be b... |
14 January 2011
16:11 GMT |
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VIA may not have any sort of stake in the consumer segment, but it definitely provides the embedded market with various platforms and systems, and the company has now expanded its portfolio to include video cards as well.The embedded market does not exactly include any sort of system meant to cope with high-quality ... |
3 January 2011
07:26 GMT |
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About a month or so ago, LSI introduced the WarpDrive SLP-300 PCI Express high performance solid state disk and, although the card managed to blow us away with its staggering performance numbers, we had a few questions regarding its availability as we couldn't find the WarpDrive listed anywhere on the web.
Ho... |
17 December 2010
08:49 GMT |
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While PCI Express x16 ports are generally used by graphics cards, HighPoint created a certain, and currently unique, device, namely the world's first PCI-E 2.0 x16 SATA Host Adapter with support for PM enclosures. Normally, enterprise and small to medium businesses use SAS expander solutions when it comes to up... |
15 December 2010
04:49 GMT |
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Audio enthusiasts can surely agree that Auzentech builds some of the best audio cards in the business, but when it comes down to availability, things are a little more tricky as just a limited number of the company's products can be found on retailers shelves, although this is set to change since the company has... |
7 December 2010
02:33 GMT |
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It seems that motherboards might soon start to incorporate a new type of PCI Express slot now that PCI-SIG has finalized the latest standard, one which brings many benefits over PCI Express 2.0.Basically, PCI-SIG has finished the PCI Express 3.0 specification, the standard which was known to be almost ready since ab... |
19 November 2010
02:18 GMT |
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Apparently, the current PCI Express specification is no longer enough for the PCI special interest group (PCI SIG), who have been diligently working on the new specification, version 3.0 to be exact, set to debut two months from now.Earlier this year, the organization said it would start testing prototypes of PCI Ex... |
17 September 2010
10:58 GMT |
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Apparently not satisfied with the uproar its SATA 6.0 Gbps SSD will likely cause, PhotoFast has also decided to announce the impending arrival of the Power Drive-LSI, a very fast SSD designed for the PCI Express x8 interface.Just a short while ago, PhotoFast revealed that it will soon start shipping a solid state dr... |
17 September 2010
06:38 GMT |
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While makers of storage solutions strive to create newer, faster and more capacious flash storage devices, some are also working on modules compatible with newer technologies, and Fusion-io seems to have just finished developing what it calls the new ioMemory module, a flash storage product set to be used in new PCI... |
19 August 2010
10:59 GMT |
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Even as computer suppliers have been flooding the market with newer and better PCs, OCZ has been keeping the flow of solid state drives quite steady, unveiling, not too long ago, the Vertex 2 and Onyx SSDs. The same outfit is now expanding its portfolio with yet another so-called 'affordable' solution, thou... |
28 June 2010
11:01 GMT |
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When it was first implemented, the PCI Express 2.0 specifications allowed for newer and much more powerful motherboards and graphics cards to be made. Still, as time moves on, technologies become outdated and unable to handle next-generation products. The PCI Express 2.0 can't really be said to have reached thi... |
31 May 2010
05:23 GMT |
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There are many kinds of business laptops on the market, but many of them, especially those based on Intel's latest Core processors, are hardly able to boast of possessing advanced graphics capabilities. In fact, there aren't many mobile discrete graphics cards that can meet the needs of audio/video professi... |
6 May 2010
10:19 GMT |
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HighPoint is all set and ready to start turning heads with its latest addition to the long line of “world's first” devices. Eager to start catering to the needs of end-users for high-speed storage, the company has put together what is called the industry's first four-port native SATA 6Gb/s RAID ... |
16 February 2010
10:57 GMT |
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No doubt, consumers have already heard more than enough about the revolutionary, ten-times-faster transfer speeds of USB 3.0 and the high performance of SATA 6Gbps. Unfortunately, neither of these two technologies has managed to truly grab the mainstream market by the reigns, mostly because of the low number of mothe... |
21 January 2010
09:38 GMT |
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Even though hard drives are currently still more widespread among both consumer-oriented products and enterprise installations, solid state drives are quickly gaining headway and have begun to be implemented in both large systems and personal computers. Companies have already released various SATA and even PCIe SSDs,... |
23 December 2009
07:52 GMT |
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Based on its ioMemory technology, Fusion-io developed a custom-designed PCI Express card called the ioDrive Octal card. What this product is capable of doing is simultaneously hold eight ioMemory Modules, becoming a card with the combined capacity and performance of eight ioDrives in one. In using this invention, the... |
21 November 2009
04:17 GMT |
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