Monthly Archives: April 2012

Sharing a Weekend of Tech Reviews

Do you like to share? The wonder of the internet has made that a whole lot easier. It’s interesting because while most ‘Techies”, I know, prefer to work alone they thrive on sharing their information with others. So allow me to share some “tech” reviews I collected recently and check out the highlight item, love it! HIGHLIGHT REVIEW Upgrade Your House (Custom …

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Renice X3 50mm 240GB mSATA SSD Review

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The Renice X3 240GB mSATA SSD will be our second review of a high capacity mSATA SSD and follows of our recent review of the Samsung PM830 256GB  mSATA SSD. While the Renice is SATA 2, with the Samsung PM830 being SATA 3, it’s value cannot be understated as it is only the second mSATA SSD that has reached this …

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Fusion Io Releases ioFX PCIe SSD As Digital Media Drives The Industry Forward

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Fusion IO, well known for their high performance, professional grade solid state drives and more recently, SSD caching solutions, has announced the release of their ioFX PCIe SSD. Part of their ioMemory platform, ioFX is intended to bring cost effective, souped up data storage to the workstation. The drive will deliver 1.5GB/s, and will allow artists to manipulate prodigious amounts of …

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IO-Data Announces SSDN-3TB SSDs With New Toshiba SATA 3 SSD Controller

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IO-Data, well known for its myriad storage products, has announced their latest SSD model, SSDN-3TB. Built around a new Toshiba 6Gbps storage controller, it will deliver read and write speeds of up to 480 MB/s and 350MB/s respectively. In addition, random performance is pegged at 73k IOPS for reads and 58k IOPS when it comes to writes. Initially available in …

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OCZ Vertex 4 Indilinx Infused SSD Controller Confirmed To Be Marvell Silicon

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Earlier today, Anandtech announced his receipt of a tip, and confirmation that OCZ Vertex 4 and Octane contain controllers that are Marvell hardware based. After contacting OCZ, we received confirmation of such and this was furthered by the fact that the Marvell controller runs at higher clock speeds and features Indilinx proprietary firmware. When push comes to shove, the OCZ …

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