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Tegile Systems, which came into existence on Tuesday, has announced the release of their Zebi hybrid SSD storage array. According to Tegile, SSD Acceleration will allow Zebi to offer up to 5 times the performance of conventional storage arrays. The array will also utilize in-line compression and de-duplication, allowing businesses to save on storage space, enabling them to make the …

HP, who’s Global Partner Conference recently came to a close, has announced the impending release of their new P4900 all-SSD storage array. The P4900 G2 will include support for SAS, RAID 5, 10 Gbe, and 1Gbe. The array will utilize 400 MLC SSDs in order to achieve its enormous capacity, all of which will be connected to two battery backed-up raid …

SanDisk has had a very busy few days, flexing its muscle and letting the world know its intent to power into the consumer and client OEM SSD market in a big way. After the announcement of the Extreme SATA 3 SSD and the X100 series, they have announced today a strategic partnership with Diskeeper to exclusively license their SSD caching software …

It’s no surprise that SSD- based caching solutions are popular. Both for consumers and enterprise customers, flash based caching offers the ability to accelerate storage performance at lower price points. Needless to say, companies specializing in caching are hot commodities in the storage world. Today, SanDisk announced the purchase of FlashSoft, a provider of flash caching software for Windows, Linux, and VMWare. …

We were right there to introduce Sandisk as being the first consumer available SSD in 2007 which, I guess you could say, made us one of the first to review SSDs as well.  We have come a long way since! Here we are once again announcing Sandisks latest consumer release, the Extreme SATA 3 SSD, along with a new OEM …

Another day another company for sale, or so it seems in the flash industry as of late. Texas Memory Systems has just announced that they are open to offers which is a bit unexpected for a company with 33 years in the field. A string of recent mergers toughens the playing field for Texas Memory Systems and other vendors. The …

With $45000 in hardware, over 100 hours spent pushing it to it’s limit, speeds of 2.7GB/s and over 461,800 IOPS, we are fairly certain that this RAID Controller and SSD review will be one of our most exciting reports to date, and not matched anytime soon. Today we are going to go head-to-head with the LSI 9265-8i and the Adaptec …

OCZ has just released f/w 2.15 for all SF-2281 processors which will fix an issue that has become popularly known as the “SandForce Bug”. This release not only identifies and prevents BSOD issues caused by two specific conditions, but also, tackles stuttering issues observed by some as well as significantly improving TRIM and Secure Erase operations to prevent low level …

Today we are evaluating the newest version of CacheCade, a storage caching system developed by LSI for use with their MegaRAID controllers. This system aims to create the perfect fusion between HDD capacity and SSD speed, accelerating new or existing storage subsystems that are already in place. A previous CacheCade v1.0 review of the software illustrated some of the extreme …

To say that Sandisk is an Innovator in solid state drives would be an understatement as we can all thank them for getting the SSD ball rolling. Sandisk was the first company to release their Sandisk U5000 32GB SSD to the public in 2007  and, on August 18, 2007, I was one of the first to publish a SSD review …