Tag Archives: SSD

Only 13 days remain until the anticipated shipment date 0f 1/21/2012 for OWC’s new 480GB Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G for MacBook Air 2011 editions. This portable form factor SSD that is capable of up to 511 MB/s sustained reads, and up to 448 MB/s sustained writes leaps to the top of the current marketplace as the smallest and most powerful SSD available! …

If it hasn’t yet clicked that ultrabooks are viewed as the next big thing by major industry players, here’s even more evidence to help the idea sink in. Crucial Technology, well known for their memory products and more recently, their SSDs, is releasing a 7mm thick variant of their m4 SSD. It will be available in 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and …

OCZ Technology Group and Marvell have teamed up to unveil the industry’s fastest and most versatile PCI-express (PCIe) storage system — the Z-Drive R5.  With increased performance, reliability, and endurance the Z-Drive R5 is designed to take PCIe-based solid state storage to the next level for server and enterprise environments. The Z-Drive R5 series will debut at CES 2012 at the …

In today’s mobile environment, everything that users can do to move data easily and effectively is a welcome tool. Newer Technology has come up with a novel solution for users looking for large capacity data on-the-go with the Guardian MAXimus Mini. The intent of the MAXimus Mini is to provide the best of both worlds, large capacity and ‘on the …

LSI SandForce nearly ubiquitous SF-2200 SSD processor has been awarded Product of the Year 2011 by Electronic Products Magazine. Of all the hardware this award could have gone to, an SSD processor doesn’t seem like it would be at the top of the list, not at first glance anyway. SSDs rose to prominence in only the last few years. First …

Samsung’s PM810 SSDs, better known to most people as the 470 series, have received a prominent security certification: The National Institute of Standards and Technologies’ FIPS 140-2. This certification is important for military, government and certain business applications that require heightened security. One of the main features that the certification covers is the drives’ built in 256 bit AES encryption engine, which provides …

Combining the attributes of spacious, low-cost mechanical storage with the raw speed of SSDs is becoming a popular pastime for the purveyors of solid state storage. Intel’s Z68 HDD + SSD caching was followed by OCZ’s RevoDrive Hybrid and Synapse solutions. Now it looks as though Crucial is making ready it’s own caching product in a new press release. Dubbed “Adrenaline”, …

Today we are going to test the new X79 Extreme9 ASRock Motherboard in a variety of high powered benchmarks. This new high end enthusiast-class motherboard looks to set the tone for the high powered X79 overclocking segment and we are testing to see if it can live up to its reputation as the “Overclocking King”. Let’s fire up the test …

So I am getting ready to head off to CES and guess what comes across my e-mail?  The Kupa X11 tablet? Kupa, a company I had never heard of as I am sure most others haven’t, is going to highlight their new tablet this year at CES and I dare say that even the biggest tablet manufacturer will be taking …

OCZ technology, a well known supplier of high performance SSDs, is going to be a provider of the SSD component of Intel’s upcoming ultrabook platform. The Deneva 2 is a Sandforce based device, available in both a sata II C and sata III R variant. Read/Write speeds are 280MB/s/260MB/s for the C version which will be used in the ultrabooks, …