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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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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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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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Some product types and technologies come and go within a few years, but NAND Flash memory is one of those inventions that has already lived a long time and will continue to do so for years.
Toshiba is particularly enthused about the long way that the NAND Flash memory market has come since the first products showed... |
4 April 2012
02:44 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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It looks like there is a new maker of USB 3.0 chips in the house, one that even has great ambitions as far as its particular segment of the IT market goes.
Etron wants to become one of the top two suppliers of USB 3.0 flash drive controllers before the year is over (2012).
The first time it promised such chips was ... |
3 April 2012
08:12 GMT |
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HGST, Western Digital's latest acquisition (and previously named Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) has launched an enterprise hard disk drive that claims to be the first to reach a total capacity of 4 TB.
The new drive is called Ultrastar 7K4000 and, as the name implies, boasts a platter speed of 7,200 RPM ... |
3 April 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Even though one would expect the HDD market to have more problems this year, what with the higher prices and all, IDC believes that the opposite will occur. Not that makers of such storage devices haven't had to go through trying times of course, but the analyst firm still thinks the overall shipment levels fo... |
3 April 2012
03:15 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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Hard disk drives continue to be too expensive compared to last year, but there is some hope that things will improve, even if only slightly, by the end of this month (April, 2012).
Currently, 500 GB hard drive units sell for roughly $75 on average, or 56.23 Euro according to exchange rates.
In other words, their ... |
2 April 2012
04:23 GMT |
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Early last week, storage multinational company Thecus has announced its new windows-based storage line on its official website. They’ve introduced three Intel-powered products with up to 16 bays for hard disk drives.
The smallest of three brothers is the W8900. It’s powered by an Intel Core i3-2120 dual-... |
2 April 2012
02:41 GMT |
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Raidon has recently presented the new GR3630-SB3 small backup system on their official website.
The GR3630-SB3 is part of the well-known SafeTANK Series and is a dual hard disk drive storage solution. It can host up to two 3.5-inch hard drives and it is able to configure them in RAID 0 or 1.
Despite the professiona... |
31 March 2012
03:53 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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In today’s data world you can never have enough storage space, but most of today’s storage solutions seem unstructured, lacking expansion options and are generally not dense enough. Xyratex has just introduced OneStor 2584 on their official website, a storage solution that shows much promise when facing t... |
30 March 2012
11:46 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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There are some new memory cards for sale in Japan, fit for phones, cameras and anything else that use the microSDHC form factor.
Then again, Buffalo, the maker of the cards, also went to the trouble of bundling the newcomers with adapters that convert them into standard-size SDHC cards (the like used by DSii, Dsi, 3... |
29 March 2012
09:14 GMT |
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Some new flash drives are on the way, courtesy of Elecom, but they won't be here soon at all.
In fact, shipments will only start in October (2012).
Still, USB 3.0 will truly be common by then, perhaps even among Ultrabooks.
Anyway, the MF-MSU3 series comes in four capacity sizes and just as many colors.
That... |
27 March 2012
09:34 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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Not long ago, PNY launched the Lovely Attache City flash drives and, now, the same company is introducing the Cube Attache line.It is a small, ultra-light product that is described as a suitable buy for office workers who need to make presentations and such.The storage capacity goes from 4 GB to 32 GB, while the rugg... |
24 March 2012
08:05 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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Synology has just introduced an updated version of the high-performance 4-bay DiskStation DS412 NAS (Network Attached Storage) server, the DS412+, which adds a couple of new features to its predecessor.
In order to build the DS412+, Synology started by redesigning the case of its previous model so that it could add ... |
20 March 2012
11:04 GMT |
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It looks like current marketing conditions and customer preferences are creating a fairly clear picture of the future, as far as the NAND Flash memory market is concerned anyway. Digitimes has published its most recent report regarding the likeliest evolution of the NAND Flash chip storage segment. Granted, this i... |
20 March 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Western Digital announced earlier today the company’s next generation of My Passport portable hard drives, which offer consumers a fresh new enclosure design and as much as 2TB of storage space in a compact form factor.
Five drives were introduced by WD, with capacities ranging from 500GB to 2TB, which are ava... |
20 March 2012
10:24 GMT |
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Intel may have its Hybrid Cloud platform ready and willing, but it still doesn't possess all the technology needed to deploy an appealing backup and recovery service, so it has partnered with StorageCraft towards that end.
The two have set up the Backup & Recovery Appliance, which operates on the Intel Hybrid ... |
20 March 2012
07:05 GMT |
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Seagate may no longer be the greatest supplier of HDDs in the world, but it still develops and launches newer and more advanced technologies, like heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). HAMR has to be the greatest milestone Seagate has reached in recent years, since it might actually do away with all the rumors a... |
20 March 2012
03:52 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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Transcend is not the first brand that would pop into one’s mind when thinking about purchasing a new SSD, but the company does offer quite a few solid state drive models that can deliver top notch performance, thanks to the inclusion of fast SATA 6Gbps controllers built by SandForce. This includes the recently... |
19 March 2012
08:11 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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Japanese company Logitec has prepared some 3.5-inch hard drive boxes that, contrary to what some may expect, don't do anything besides holding drives inside.
Made of ABS, they can hold one storage unit each and grant it physical, dust and static protection. All of them have a top hinged cap that locks into pla... |
15 March 2012
17:31 GMT |
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ASUS is preparing to start seriously offering cloud services, even if it begins with a private cloud instead of a public one.
Said private cloud, according to Digitimes, will serve the National Taiwan University (NTU) and will be put to use this month, March 2012.
A Taiwan-based bank has also reportedly placed so... |
15 March 2012
10:41 GMT |
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iStorage, a company specialized in building encrypted portable storage devices, just announced the availability of the diskAshur DT, “the world’s first” 3.5-inch external HDD featuring military grade hardware encryption and USB 3.0 support.
The diskAshur DT series includes three drives with capaci... |
15 March 2012
08:56 GMT |
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The name of the Western Digital MyBook Thunderbolt Duo may not quite be enough to reveal every detail about the product, but it comes close.
Just the mention of Thunderbolt is enough to cement its status as external storage solution, not to mention fast one.
Speaking of which, the Thunderbolt standard makes the pr... |
15 March 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Synology has just announced that is has expanded its NAS portfolio with the addition of a new single-bay solution, dubbed the DS112j, which was designed to be used as a personal cloud storage device courtesy of a range of apps designed for iPhone, iPad and Android.
Those apps allow users to access the data they have... |
14 March 2012
19:01 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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We've seen several server products crop up over the past week, and Fusion-io is one of the latest contributors to this string of releases. The company has completed the Fusion ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo, both of which will be used in Japanese data centers. They have capacities of up to 2.4 TB and almost identi... |
13 March 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Drobo, a well-known manufacturer of data storage products for businesses and professionals, has just announced that its high-performance B1200i iSCSI-enabled SAN solutions can now be configured to feature OCZ’s Talos SAS 6Gbps SSD.
The B1200i is the first Drobo product to leverage the benefits of SSDs in order... |
13 March 2012
10:46 GMT |
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After writing about servers and their latest storage products, we are bringing you information on the RocketStor SMART Backup product from HighPoint Technologies. The RocketStor SMART Backup is basically a dual-bay storage device that connects to PCs or Mac Systems via USB 3.0. This means that it is not a NAS (netw... |
12 March 2012
10:00 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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QNAP Systems, a company well known for its data storage solutions, has just announced the introduction of the TS-x69 Pro series of NAS servers which are powered by Intel’s Atom D2700 processors.
The series comprised no less than five models, which can hold between two and eight 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA 6Gbps ... |
9 March 2012
11:03 GMT |
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If you live in Japan and want to get a flash drive one of these days, the Elecom MF-BSU304GBK may warrant at least a passing glance, especially if you care about safety. It is not a large-capacity storage unit by any means. There are only 4 GB available. On the other hand, there is 256-bit AES data encryption, as... |
9 March 2012
09:53 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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Buffalo has announced its latest optical disk drive unit, according to VR-Zone, one that will sell for $232 / 175 Euro starting near the end of March, 2012. The product will only be available in Japan at first, but it shouldn't take long for other regions to get it. The BRXL-14FBS-BK, as it is called, is a Blu... |
8 March 2012
11:06 GMT |
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Logitec (not to be confused with Logitech) has announced a new NAS device, one that can hold two drives at the same time.Dubbed LSV-MS2MWG, it can have the storage devices configured in RAID 1 mode.That means that, with the top capacity supported being of 2 TB for each unit, the maximum storage space is just short of... |
8 March 2012
10:50 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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Western Digital has officially announced the S25 series of hard disk drive units, where the Serial Attached SCSI interface meets the 10,000 rotations per minute (RPM) spindle speed.
From the interface alone, it is easy to gleam that this series is intended for business and enterprise applications rather than consum... |
8 March 2012
03:08 GMT |
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