In reading this article, you might think it runs along the lines of the still popular Hulk vs Superman Debate except in this case, it’s storage related and this storyline is Storage Mojo vs The SSD Guy. Self-professed ‘Storage Mojo’ is none other than Robin Harris while ‘The SSD Guy’ seemed to be a tag given to me years ago. …

Whether it be consumer or industry, anybody seriously looking at solid state drives today has become familiar with such names as Crucial/Micron, Intel, Kingston and OCZ in the client world along with Adaptec, Dell, Hitachi, LSI, Rorke Data, Seagate, Smart Storage Systems, STEC and Toshiba in the business and enterprise world. So what would you think if Avnet brought the …

SanDisk has finally jumped full tilt back into the world of SSDs and our report today will introduce you to the use of yet another brand of NAND flash memory that we haven’t seen in any SATA 3 SSDs, at least that I am aware of. The benefit, of course, is that this memory is owned by SanDisk.  This allows …

In taking a close look at the need for mSATA SSDs in today’s SSD arena, it just doesn’t really seem clear as to why manufacturers are jumping into the mSATA fold so quickly. We might be able to say that the push to market of mSATA SSDs has become a trend, in fact. Our analysis today will be the MyDigitalSSD …

Our first edition of the ‘Beauty of CeBIT 2012‘ went over with such success that we thought all might appreciate one more run through on the last day of the show for some last minute shots. You are going to have to trust me when I say this is not as easy of a task as it seems, simply for …

We have done it at each of the other technology shows with resounding success and thought we might tackle it once again at CeBIT 2012 in Hannover.  We think you might agree that there is one thing that simply cannot be overlooked as we travel CeBIT, this being European beauty. From Ms Germany,  Anne-Kathrin Kosch, to CES participants, and all …

Our first visit to the OCZ Booth at CeBIT 2012 was a bit ‘rushed’ as we saw a flurry of first day guests invading the hangars as many companies were still fine tuning their displays. Such was the case with our visit to the OCZ booth which remains to be one of the busiest displays of the show.  We have …

While taking a look in the CeBit Labs today, we came across something that we just had to write about, Tobiii Technology Eye Tracking and Gaze Interaction. Basically, anything you can do with a mouse, you can do with your eyes and we were so impressed that we had to give it a shot. The concept is relatively simple.  You …

Our first stop of the morning, at CeBIT 2012 in Hannover, Germany, was with Peter Carcione and Super Talent to speak with them with respect neW and upcoming releases.  Much as expected, we were able to get first hand shots and have a bit of a discussion on the newly released RAIDDrive II,as well as the upcoming Upstream PCIe SSD. …

To many, the name Biwin is definitely not synonymous with many SSD drives that they might consider in their future purchase, but that may change soon enough. Biwin has been in the flash storage business for 16 years and, as surprising as it may seem, has already established very strong strategic partnerships with many names you would know, to include …