Intel Z97 based motherboards will be making their appearance very shortly and, once again, ASRock seems to flexing their muscle. If you remember their release of the Z87 series, they literally blew away competitors by releasing the Fatal1ty Killer AMD board with the worlds first native PCIe x2 M.2 socket, accomplishing the task of breaking that infamous SATA performance barrier …
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Occasionally at TSSDR, a number of things fall in place where we think that a new build might be best to highlight new hardware. Such is the case with our receipt and significant testing with the latest and greatest from ASRock, the ASRock Z87 Intel based Extreme11/ac and AM3 based Fatal1ty 990FX Killer AM3+/AM motherboards. Their sheer design is a …
Read More » Yesterday, we posted a report that seems to have drawn amazing attention, one that spoke to Intel’s final acknowledgement that their 3rd Generation controller was manufactured by none other than LSI. That really isn’t that big of a news scoop unless you are an SSD geek. It does tell us a great deal about the Intel 730 Series SSD we …
Read More » The Intel 3rd Generation SSD controller was first seen in our review of the DC S3700 SSD in late 2012, and followed by our later review of the DC S3500 in May of 2013, both SSDs being enterprise variant drives targeted for the data center. The controller is an 8 channel 6Gbps controller and has enjoyed a great deal of …
Read More » Some time ago, Asus released their newest Z87 ROG Maximus VI motherboard and it was the first to take a crack at M.2 SSDs. Our review of the ADATA AXNS360E M.2 SSD looked at the Maximus VI first hand As much as we loved such things as SSD Secure Erase and the UEFI on the board, their M.2 design …
Read More » The world got its first look at Intel’s new 1500 Pro M.2 SSD today at Storage Visions, along with another Intel SSD with definite unknown origins. The 1500 Pro story is relatively new with this SSD being designed as a client solution for business. It will be available in capacities of 80-480GB and has performance specs of 540MB/s throughput and …
Read More » So our friends at MyCE sent us an e-mail early this morning, detailing their exclusive discovery of Intel’s latest SSD roadmap, a roadmap that provides plenty of clues as to where Intel is going in the SSD realm. First and foremost, congrats to JW and the MyCE crew for grabbing this one away from Chinese VR-Zone, the undisputed the ‘leaked …
Read More » Earlier this morning at Accelerating Innovation Summit (AIS) 2013, LSI President and CEO Abhi Talwalkar presented his vision of “The Datacentric World” which primarily focused on instant retrieval of information and real-time analytics. A few examples to illustrate the point came from the video, such as the ability to instantly dispatch first-responders in case of an emergency, or to decipher a …
Read More » Silicon Power, a global producer of memory and storage solutions, is announcing their revolutionary new ThunderboltTM solid state drive (SSD), dubbed the Thunder T11. This unique palm-sized drive utilizes Intel’s ThunderboltTM technology, and has been officially certified by both Intel and Apple. The Thunder T11 represents a new platform of storage solution, and offers its users absolute reliability and capabilities, …
Read More » Intel Corporation is announcing release of a new family of business-class SSDs. The first member(s) of this new product family will be the Pro 1500 Series, which will offer improved manageability and security features when utilized with Intel’s vPro Technology and an Opal management suite of protocols. The Intel Pro 1500 Series helps IT departments to easily deploy and securely …
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