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Tokyo newspaper Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun has just reported that Toshiba is planning to expand its Fab 5 manufacturing facility at the Yokkaichi Operations complex in the Mie prefecture, Japan. This is a NAND flash memory factory and the move is part of Toshiba’s plan to take the lead as the world’s largest ... |
9 April 2012
08:16 GMT |
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The number of changes available in the latest build for CrystalDiskInfo is far from being overwhelming. But besides adding support for new hardware components, version 4.5 also improves overall performance of the application.The new revision of the software can retrieve information about Micron RealSSD P300 and ... |
9 April 2012
07:39 GMT |
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Hong Kong based Renice Technology Co. has just announced the new Renice X3 mSATA SSD for embedded storage applications on its official website. This is a very small SSD for use in tablet PCs, mobile computing systems, road surveillance systems, or other industrial applications. The Renice X3 mSATA SSD is a direct co... |
9 April 2012
04:20 GMT |
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Solid State Drives already have a high performance advantage over HDDs, but where their price and lower capacity mostly counterbalanced that, a new hardware engine developed by Toshiba could totally change the face of this competition, on the server market anyway.
Long story short, Toshiba has created a hardware en... |
9 April 2012
02:49 GMT |
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I-O Data has some new solid state drives up for sale, powered by 24nm Toggle NAND Flash memory and SATA 6.0 Gbps controllers from Toshiba.
Toshiba is a small presence on the market of SSD controller chips.
This new product would have been its ticket to something closer to relevance, but the price more or less ruine... |
7 April 2012
06:08 GMT |
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Solid state drives have come a long way in the past couple of years, but Mosaid might just make it possible for them to cover just as much ground in a single leap.
Sure, that may be laying it on a bit thick, but there is something particularly noteworthy about a NAND module that can give major boosts to both perfor... |
6 April 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Micro-Star International's GT70 gaming notebook might look like any other gaming portable PC at first glance, but a certain entry on the spec sheet makes it stand apart.
The MSI GT70 uses something called Super RAID, a storage technology that puts an interesting spin on solid state drive use in notebooks.
Ga... |
6 April 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Let’s face it, the compact disc is soon to take its place in the hall of fame next to vinyl records. And if anyone’s going to make the first move to ditch this hardware from all of its computers, it’s going to be Apple.
But why not beat them to it? If you no longer fancy that optical drive in your ... |
5 April 2012
11:11 GMT |
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We said we'd be covering the Vertex 4 solid state drive line when we wrote about the Indilinx Everest 2 controllers and, sure enough, here it is. OCZ seems to have taken a page out of AMD's book when it comes to making big and blunt claims regarding the worth of its products. Where AMD said that Trinity... |
4 April 2012
11:01 GMT |
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OCZ has finished work on its newest and greatest solid state drive controller, the Indilinx Everest 2, which will start out as part of the Vertex 4 SSDs.
We aren't going to talk about the vertex 4 just yet. That will come later. Instead, we'll try to sum up the main benefits of the new chips.
Essentially... |
4 April 2012
10:36 GMT |
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LSI has just announced its new lineup, made up of SSD drives with PCIe interface and the software solutions for the dynamic cache storage, on their official website. The product family includes the Nytro XD PCIe SSD with intelligent caching software and the Nytro MegaRAID RAID card with caching SSD built-in. Separa... |
4 April 2012
09:24 GMT |
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SSD caching may not be particularly widespread yet, but it is only a matter of time before it turns common if Intel has anything to say about it, and it does.
The Santa Clara, California-based company has introduced the 313 series of solid state drives, based on single-level cell (SLC) NAND Flash chips.
They aren&... |
4 April 2012
03:16 GMT |
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Mach Xtreme has introduced some solid state drives for people who want reasonably fast storage but don't have a fortune to spend on it.
The MX-JET ULTRA Series, as they are called, have 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB capacities and speeds of up to 270 MB/s read and 170 MB/s write.
Meanwhile, the max I/O per second p... |
3 April 2012
11:22 GMT |
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Intel is determined to push forward with its solid state drive business, and the prices of its upcoming models may be just the sort of leverage it needs. We aren't sure this isn't a case of mistyped numbers, but the listings have been up for a while, so someone would have probably noticed by now if that w... |
2 April 2012
10:03 GMT |
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Old PC and notebook users or collectors rejoice, Transcend has just announced the new PSD320 SSD on its official website. What’s so special about this SSD? It has an IDE interface.
It comes in 2.5” format and has a traditional notebook 44-pin configuration. Transcend calls it “ultra-fast,” bu... |
2 April 2012
02:41 GMT |
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OCZ Technology Group released the Deneva 2 SSDs quite a while ago, and those very SSDs are getting a new service contract, so to speak.
Months after PSSC Labs Systems called upon their services, the Deneva 2 solid state drives have a new client: Fujitsu.
More precisely, the storage devices will be used in San Vel... |
30 March 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Lite-On has formally announced the E200 series of solid state drives, which are supposed to help small and medium businesses speed up their systems without having to pay too much.
Featuring the 2.5-inch form factor, they have 3.5-inch mounting brackets, just in case there are no bays their size.
Also, they support... |
30 March 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Taiwanese company Memoright has just started shipping their new line of mSATA SSDs called MS 701. These small devices started popping up in Japan and the guys at AkibaPC managed to get some pictures and even to run a test. From the official specifications, we can see that Memoright's new baby is faster th... |
28 March 2012
04:30 GMT |
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The Sun State based memory manufacturer has recently launchedtheir own iteration of the SandForce 2281 based design on its official page. It’s called Centon Diamond VVS1 and is fully compatible with SATA III. The product clearly makes use of the extra bandwidth as it comes with rated speeds of 400 MB/s when r... |
27 March 2012
05:29 GMT |
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Having read about the likelihood of a new Amazon Kindle Fire being on the way, we now get to look at a report that deals with a different company and an equally different product type.
In this instance, Intel is the corporation that Digitimes' report talks about, although not for its central processing unit li... |
23 March 2012
14:41 GMT |
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TDK may be just one of many solid state drive makers, but it has moments when it stands out and apart, figuratively speaking of course, and now is one of those moments.
The company has introduced the TDK eSSD product line, a series of very small and nearly self-sufficient solid state drives.
Essentially, they are ... |
23 March 2012
04:19 GMT |
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There are many solid state drives based on controllers from SandForce, but that didn't stop Orico from making some of its own, so the HD-01 series came to be. Going through online retailers, people may stumble upon a certain new series of solid state drives, one that Orico came up with. There are four of them... |
19 March 2012
09:29 GMT |
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German computer memory specialist takeMS has recently announced the release of its first solid state drives, with the introduction of the UTX-2200 series of devices based on second generation SandForce 6Gbps controllers. Initially, the UTX-2200 range will comprise three models with capacities going from 60GB to 480G... |
16 March 2012
08:47 GMT |
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Marvell has announced the completion of the 88SS9187 third-generation solid state drive controller chip, one that enables better performance at lower cost and energy use.The new processor is compliant with the SATA Revision 3.1 specification and supports on-chip RAID technology for NAND devices.It also handles high-... |
14 March 2012
12:15 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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It may not be the same move as the one Crucial made a few days ago, but HighPoint is definitely thinking along the same lines in terms of system storage performance. Long story short, HighPoint has created the RocketCache 3240X8, an add-in-board of sorts that provides SSD caching to Macs and PCs. That is to say, ... |
10 March 2012
06:42 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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No longer than a year after the introduction of the 510 Series of SATA 6Gbps SSDs, Intel has announced that it will soon retire these drives to replace them with the much faster 520 Series built around SandForce’s SF-2281 controller.
Intel announced its decision in a recent “Product Discontinuance Notice... |
8 March 2012
20:01 GMT |
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We've seen how the 510 series of solid state drives from Intel have almost reached the end of their rope and, now, we know that the 311 Series is getting scrapped as well. That isn't to say that they will suddenly vanish without a trace. Instead, Intel has announced that the 34nm-based storage devices w... |
8 March 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Since SSD caching seems to be so well looked upon, Crucial decided to release a product for this specific purpose, so out came the Crucial Adrenaline.
SSD caching is a technology which, through a combination of hardware and software features, lets the OS consider an HDD and an SSD as being part of the same partitio... |
8 March 2012
09:36 GMT |
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Products based on NAND Flash memory chips continue to sell for a lot more than magnetic devices, but the gap will narrow significantly in the second half of the year, according to DRAMeXchange.
We've heard it all before, how NAND Flash chips are always poised to get cheaper and finally let solid state drives b... |
8 March 2012
08:35 GMT |
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It wasn't overly long ago that the Japanese company Green House released a NAND Flash-based storage device and, now, the company is doing it again.
Of course, that is not exactly an accurate summation of the most recent events that transpired at the company's home base in the Land of Sunrise.
After all,... |
8 March 2012
07:43 GMT |
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No one said Thunderbolt drives were supposed to be cheap, especially when they're SSDs instead of HDDs. Still, when Elgato made the Thuderbolt SSDs, it could have at least tried to make it a bit cheaper. After all, paying $430, or 327 Euro, for 120 GB of storage isn't something many people will enthusia... |
6 March 2012
10:52 GMT |
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First announced in mid-January, Corsair’s Accelerator SSD cache drives have now reached the retail space, where they are available as we speak with prices starting at $69 USD (about 52 EUR).
SSD cache drives are meant to be used together with regular hard drives in order to speed up the performance of the stor... |
6 March 2012
09:48 GMT |
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We are long past the point where we feel surprise at another SSD line using SandForce controllers, so Patriot Memory's Wildfire Pro and Wildfire SE lines didn't catch us off guard.
The actual controller used is the SandForce SF-2281, which lets storage devices make full use of the SATA III interface.
To ... |
5 March 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Since Kingston is one of the leading names in the memory industry and has been setting a lot of standards during its existence, it was of course just a matter of time until the red-faced man was to be seen on SSDs.
Kingston brings forward no less than 4 large categories of SS drives, as follows: Consumer, Business, ... |
2 March 2012
09:46 GMT |
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We've seen some rather peculiar, if not questionable, design and price choices with the first Buffalo SSDs and, now, we are looking at something more down to earth, so to speak.
We’ve just got word that Plextor has completed the M3 Pro series of solid state drives, based on the M3 line we covered back in Decem... |
1 March 2012
18:01 GMT |
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We've been writing about Buffalo and its external storage products for a while, but it is only now that the company makes its first sojourn into the solid state drive market.
Buffalo has announced the SSD-NS/PM3P series of SSDs in Japan, with three capacity options: 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB.
One would think ... |
1 March 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Like Buffalo and Plextor, OCZ is getting ready to unleash some solid state drives, but its products are aimed at enterprise customers instead of consumers.
With CeBIT set to take place in Hannover, Germany, between March 6 and 10, OCZ is getting ready to show its stuff.
The Vertex 4 SSD line is part of what the c... |
1 March 2012
11:08 GMT |
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Despite all the reliability problems that have plagued SSDs powered by SandForce’s second generation SSD processors, the number of solid state drives built using these controllers keeps on expanding on an almost daily basis, with PNY being the latest company to join the party. The outfit made its entrance to t... |
1 March 2012
08:25 GMT |
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We wrote about the new, high-end power supply that OCZ developed, and now we are looking at some storage products that, like the Fatal1ty 1000W, are only going to be accessible to a limited number of customers, at least at first.
Then again, unlike with the enthusiast PSU, the reason why not many people will be abl... |
29 February 2012
07:32 GMT |
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Eurocom has always been known for its high performance desktop replacement laptops and mobile workstations, so it comes as no surprise that the company has announced that its systems can now be configured with Intel's high-performance 520-series SSDs. The 520-series of solid state drives was designed by Intel t... |
24 February 2012
13:11 GMT |
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ADATA has just announced that the company has expanded its product portfolio with two new series of high-performance solid state drives based on SandFoce’s popular 6Gbps SSD processors. The new drives were released into the XPG SX900 and Premier Pro SP900 series.
The XPG SX900 (Xtreme Performance Gear) SSD li... |
24 February 2012
08:26 GMT |
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Amidst a trove of SATA III 6.0 Gbps SSD announcements, Transcend has taken the microphone to release some that aren't that desperate to work at over 500 MB/s. What this means is that the company has announced the SSD500 line of NAND Flash storage devices. With support for SATA II (SATA 3.0 Gbps), they have m... |
23 February 2012
10:09 GMT |
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Thermaltake has chosen this as the time of introduction for the Max Series of personal computer accessories, composed of two products called Thermaltake Max 5G and Thermaltake Max Duo.
The former is an external hard disk drive enclosure that fits into a desktop case's 5.25-inch drive bay, the type usually rese... |
22 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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The market of hard disk drive and solid state drive docking stations is one of those minor segments that will be with us for a very long time.
Century Co. has made its contribution to this field, revealing the CROS2EU3CP, a 2-bay model that does not stand out much in terms of looks.
Still, it does have the ability ... |
21 February 2012
10:34 GMT |
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Intel may not have sold as many solid state drives as companies that focus exclusively on memory/storage products, but this side-business is apparently progressing well enough that an all-new collection is on the way.
There is word going around the Internet about an impending replacement for the Intel Larson Creek ... |
21 February 2012
08:12 GMT |
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Mach Xtreme decided to launch a series of solid state drives that even people with moderate financial resources could buy, even if it did not actually mention the prices. The company has created the MX-STARTER PREMIUM Series, composed of three members with capacities of 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB, respectively. All o... |
21 February 2012
05:17 GMT |
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Solid state drives were, and to some extent still are, considered the next best means of storing data, but Microsoft thinks this fame is undeserved and will eventually die down.
Microsoft believes that solid state drives will lose the speed advantage over hard drive units by 2024, effectively nullifying their prima... |
20 February 2012
07:40 GMT |
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There is a new series of solid state drives on the market, or there will be as soon as Silicon Power gets around to the stage where it ramps up availability.
The new collection of storage devices is called SSD Extreme E25 but, contrary to what people may expect, it is not so “extreme” in terms of perfor... |
17 February 2012
08:01 GMT |
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