While speaking with OWC CEO Larry O’Connor at the OWC booth this morning, he pulled a little something from his pocket that truly spiked my interest. It was an upgrade to my present 2013 MacBook Air and, better yet, it contained the LSI SandForce SF3700 flash processor capable of 1.8GB/s read and write performance. This SSD is actually the first …
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The new Predator PCIe wasn’t all Kingston had in store at CES 2014 as they also had a few other tricks up their sleeve as well. First up is a new mSATA model, the display version being a 480GB model that features Micron’s newest NAND modules coupled with the new LSI SandForce SF3700 NAND controller, capable of read / write speeds …
Read More » CES 2014 is off and running, and our first stop this morning was to the Emeror’s Ballroom of Caesar’s Palace to meet with Kingston Technology. The very first thing that caught our eye, and definitely piqued our interest, was the HyperX Predator PCIe SSD. As with other products in the HyperX line, Kingston has dressed the card up with a …
Read More » Anyone who knows me can speak thoroughly on my innate ability to state the wrong thing at the wrong time. Our afternoon visit to ADATA provided just an example. Having earlier visited Avant/Mushkin, we were aware that there would be no groundbreaking news, or updated performance results, on the much awaited for LSI SandForce SF3700 controller, Codenamed Griffin. Hoping sometime …
Read More » La Cie, a recent acquisition of our friends at Seagate, pulled off what just might be the storage highlight of CES this evening at Pepcom Las Vegas 2014. Using, not one but, two Samsung XP941 PCIe M.2 SSDs in a RAID 0 format, they were able to achieve well over 1GB/s using their new Little Big Disk ThunderBolt 2 External …
Read More » I had almost thought I might never see it and truly can’t stand by what might happen down the road, but Samsung had their ‘pre-production’ Series 9 ultrabook on display at Pepcom with it’s own Samsung XP941 PCIe M.2 SSD, performing at 1GB/s. To those not familiar with Samsung, they value their business relationships dearly and the XP941 PCIe SSD …
Read More » Our early morning meet with Avant Technology brought forward some new designs and Mushkin hardware, however, let’s get the bad news out of the way first. If, like we had, you are waiting for those great LSI SandForce performance numbers to be revealed in their new SF3700 flash controller design, don’t hold your breath too long because we may just …
Read More » SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading flash storage producer, is announcing that ASUS is featuring the SanDisk X110 solid-state drive (SSD) ZENBOOK UX301LA Ultrabook. The SanDisk M.2 2260 form-factor X110 SSD is a very thin and light-weight storage solution that is ideal for notebook / Ultrabook applications. The ASUS UX301LA also features quite the thin design, along with the high performance achieved …
Read More » The world got its first look at Intel’s new 1500 Pro M.2 SSD today at Storage Visions, along with another Intel SSD with definite unknown origins. The 1500 Pro story is relatively new with this SSD being designed as a client solution for business. It will be available in capacities of 80-480GB and has performance specs of 540MB/s throughput and …
Read More » One of the most enjoyable aspects of attending a function such as Storage Visions 2014 is seeing as-yet-unreleased storage products. Next up for your viewing pleasure courtesy of the SATA-IO booth is Sonnet Technology’s Tempo 4 mSATA SSD Pro PCIe 2.0X8 add-in storage card. This card holds up to 4 X mSATA SSDs (not included), each having its own 6 GB/s …
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