Greenliant, well known for their power efficient SSDs targeted at industrial and embedded applications, has announced the release of their NANDrive line at Embedded World. Initially available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB capacities, NANDrive is one of the world’s smallest SSDs, weighing in at 14mm x 24mm x 1.95mm. NANDrive will be offered in a 145 BGA package, is resistant …
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Runcore Showcases Products At Satellite 2012 As Space Beckons For SSDs
Runcore, well known for their SSDs and storage solutions, has announced that they will be showcasing a myriad of products at Satellite 2012. For those who don’t know, Satellite focuses on (try to act surprised) the satellite industry, attracting numerous interested parties (military, broadcast, enterprise, mobile, telcos). The show also highlights products of immediate relevance to the industry. This naturally includes …
Read More »SanDisk Co-Founder States Flash Memory Will Checkmate Hard Drives by 2020
Eli Harari, one of flash memory’s founding fathers, was not reserved when speaking Monday at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). The SandDisk co-founder predicts that flash memory will “checkmate” hard drives by 2020. He goes on to state that DRAM, as we know it, may not be far behind. This is quite the counterpoint to the recent Microsoft Research …
Read More »Samsung SSD Angels Travel Europe – Samsung SSD Love Mends Broken Relationships Worldwide
Its been some time since Samsung has put out an SSD video but they seem to be spreading the SSD love throughout Europe as of late. It seems that Samsung has taken 50 of their prized 830 Series SSDs, one ambulance turned Tech bench and 4 SSD angels (of which one definitely is) and has toured Europe in hopes of …
Read More »ADATA First To Release New Higher Capacity ‘SandForce Driven’ SSD Line
ADATA, Taiwanese purveyor of SSDs and memory products, today announced a new range of SandForce powered offerings. Consisting of three new lines, the XPG SX900, the Premier Pro SP900, and the Premier SP800, each is powered by the SandForce-2281 controller. The XPG SX900 is designed for higher performance, boasting typical SF-2281 speeds of 550MB/s reads and 530MB/s writes. The XPG moniker refers to …
Read More »Mach Xtreme Launches MX-Starter Premium SSD – Delivering Paycheck Sparing Performance
Mach Xtreme Technology today announced the new MX-Starter Premium family of SSDs intended to appeal to the value oriented SSD client. The MX-Starter Premium is a SATA 2 SSD and performance is listed at 150MB/s read and 80MB/s write with up to 10,000 IOPS. This line of SSDs will be available in capacities of 32GB, 64GB and 128GB, and each …
Read More »SMART Optimus Ultra SAS SSD Capable of 1GB/s Transfer and 100,000 IOPS Performance
SMART Storage Systems, well known for their high performance memory and storage products, has announced the release of their Optimus Ultra SSD. Utilizing a SAS interface, the Optimus will offer a sustained transfer rate of 1GB/s and random read/write performance of 100k and 60k IOPS, respectively. The Optimus will be available in capacities ranging from 150GB to 1.2TB, which makes it …
Read More »Intel Prepares New 313 Series 25nm SLC Caching SSD For Release
Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors are only a few months away and it appears that they may have some company when they launch with Intels anticipated release of the 313 series SLC caching SSDs. The 313 series will be available in 20GB and a 24GB capacities and, although the reasoning behind the 24GB capacity seems a bit unclear, they were …
Read More »HighPoint 3420X8 RocketCache – Too Much Cache is Better Than Too Little
Everyone is getting in on the SSD caching action these days. Through software, or a combination of software and hardware, using fast SSDs to speed up slower mechanical storage seems like a catchy idea. Enter the HighPoint 3420X8 RocketCache which enables you to mix up to 4 devices for your caching pleasure. Would you like to mix three SSDs and …
Read More »Tegile Systems Emerges With Hybrid SSD Array – Joins Starboard In Enterprise Storage Fray
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 …
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