Transcend Information, Inc., a premier industrial-grade SSD manufacturer, has jumped on the JMicron bandwagon with their new SSD740 SATAIII solid-state drive (SSD). Transcend is marketing their latest offering as the ultimate SSD solution for devices utilizing more advanced operating systems, including Ultrabooks, notebooks, gaming systems and industrial desktop PCs. The SSD740 offers an impressive combination of performance and durability. As seen …
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MacBook Air First Out Of The Gate With Blazing PCIe Speeds of 790MB/s Read and 760MB/s Write
If you were wondering who would be at the front of the pack with PCIe storage speed laptops, wonder no more. A great release early this morning by Anand shows the new MacAir as having been upgraded to Haswell and SSDs being PCIe based, with what appears to be a Samsung PCIe SSD within. The SSD appears to be a …
Read More »Plextor Displays New M.2 NGFF PCIe Ultrabook SSD With 770MB/s Speeds – Computex 2013 Update
As new as Ultrabook form factor PCIe is to the SSD world, LSI SandForce isn’t the only at Computex 2013 to display an ultrabook SSD capable of speeds well above anything we are seeing in present PC systems. On display at the Plextor booth is their NGFF M.2 (PCIe) SSD which will be available in capacities of 128, 256 and …
Read More »From 3x Power SSDs To SATA DEVSLP – Game Changing Storage and PC Thoughts From Computex 2013
AN EARTHQUAKE OF A DISCOVERY Where we believed this year to be a very quiet year in the world of SSD technology, Computex 2013 has become one of the largest and most important SSD news events to date. We should have known. From 32 stories up on our day of arrival, we experienced a level 6.5 earthquake first hand with …
Read More »ADATA Top Manufacturer for SSD Selections and New Introductions at Computex – Computex 2013 Update
Considering the success of our earlier article detailing our discovery of the new LSI SandForce flash storage processor (Codename Griffin) capable of an amazing 1.8GBs transfer speeds and 200,000 IOPS performance, and subsequent NGFF ultrabook version, one might think that ADATA has garnished enough SSD coverage during Computex 2013, but in that one would be incorrect. This year, ADATA has …
Read More »LSI SandForce Codename Griffin NGFF Ultrabook Version ADATA SSD Piks & Specs – Computex 2013 Update
Imagine 1.8GB/s read and write performance with up to 200, 000 IOPS being possible in a NGFF/M.2 form factor. This not only verifies that LSI SandForces new controller, Codename Griffin, is about to make an amazing transformation in the SSD industry, but also, these blistering speeds will be seen soon enough in ultrabooks. The fact is that ADATA has made …
Read More »APacer Shows Off Dual PCB RAID SSD That Uses Both SLC and MLC Memory – Computex 2013 Update
APacer doesn’t come across our desk much but we happened upon an interesting SSD of theirs at Computex 2013 that is capable of using both SLC and MLC memory concurrently, providing an opportunity for OS installation on the SLC memory with data on the MLC. The APacer CSD is a dual drive RAID driven SSD that is intended for industrial …
Read More »SSD Makers Highlight Power Loss Protection and Choice of Capacitors in SSDs – Computex 2013 Update
It was refreshing to see SSD manufacturers going into incredible detail to provide an understanding of their SSD products this year at Computex. This particularly stands true of both BIWIN and APacer who spoke to power loss protection by explaining the purpose of capacitors, and even type, in their booth displays. APacer went one further to even provide the buyer …
Read More »Western Digital Confirms New Ultra Slim WD Black Hybrid SSD Not Haswell DEVSLP Compliant – Computex 2013 Update
Although it isn’t news to some, it is a very interesting consideration most should make when selecting their new ultra and PC systems this year. Hard drives are not compliant with the new SATA DEVSLP spec and this includes hybrid devices, although we wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t overcome sometime in the future. SATA DEVSLP only works for SSDs. …
Read More »SuperTalent Displays New Hybrid Design and RAIDDrive 2 Plus SSD Capable of 3GB/s Speed – Computex 2013 Update
SuperTalent threw in a bit of intrigue this year at Computex in Taipei by introducing a new and updated RAIDDrive 2 Plus PCIe SSD with significantly higher performance compared to the previous version. The RAIDDrive Plus 2 is capable of an amazing 2.8GB/s read and 3GB write performance and available in caacities up to 2TB. SuperTalent’s Marketing Manager Roman Nahal …
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