SSD News

In a nondescript ballroom here in San Jose, we almost tripped over LSI’s upcoming 12GB/s MegaRAID products. Though PCIe Gen 3 6gbps offerings are just now becoming mainstream, 12GB/s products are on the horizon — and we got the chance to see one in it’s natural habitat. This is LSI’s 9271-8i MegaRAID product. Though still some ways from release, we did …

At AIS 2012, LSI announced a new high-availability platform dubbed Syncro. Along with the MegaRAID family and the recently-released application acceleration platform called Nytro, Syncro is all about high availability. While Syncro is a both a concept and a platform, there are actual units being demonstrated. The first two products, Syncro MX and Syncro CS do have different niches to …

Death and taxes have always been known to be the two guarantees in life. At the LSI Accelerating Innovation Summit 2012 this morning in San Jose, LSI President Abhi Talwalkar demonstrated that there just may be another in the name of data growth. Having had the opportunity to see Abhi on a number of occasions, I would definitely recommend this …

Mushkin has announced release the Atlas Deluxe 30GB SSD, their smallest capacity and possibly the most powerful mSATA SSD on the market for it’s size. The Atlas Deluxe specifications list the Atlas at 555MB/s read and 365MB/s write with 92,000 IOPS with a three year standard warranty.  The Atlas Deluxe will be yet another shining example of the ‘LSI SandForce’ …

Right on the heals of the Intel DC S3700 release (of which we presently have several in hand), Samsung has struck back with its new enterprise directed SM1625 SSD capable of an incredible 800MB/s read and write performance and capacities of 100, 200, 400 and 800GB.  It’s almost like Samsung is saying, “Take that Intel!” While the SM1625 might look …

The good news is that that Samsung has finally been able to get stock in to retailers of both the new Samsung 840 and 840 Pro SSDs, but thats not all! For a limited time only, all 128, 256 and 512GB Samsung 840 Pro purchases will include a code for a downloadable full retail copy of Assassin’s Creed III by …

It has been a few years in the making Intel is finally putting their name on a SATA III solid state drive controller this morning. After ditching their own silicon for third party Marvell and LSI SandForce flash controllers in mainstream client products, Intel’s new DC S3700 SSD is rocking a brand-spankin’ new custom Intel ASIC at it’s heart. The …

ADATA, well known for their myriad storage solutions, has recently announced the release of their budget oriented SP600 SSD. The new drive will offer read write speeds of 360MB/s and 130MB/s respectively and deliver up to 40,000 IOPS. The SP600 will be offered in 32GB, 64GB and 128 GB variants priced at $49, $69 and $99 respectively. Well, just when …

It is Week 7 and we are doing it again!  Up for grabs this week is yet another amazing Kingston HyperX 240GB SATA 3 SSD with complete migration kit!  Last chance for A Hyper X folks! This month, TSSDR has teamed up with Kingston to give away a 240GB capacity Kingston HyperX ‘LSI SandForce Driven’ SSD each week. This contest …

It is Week 6 and we are doing it again!  Up for grabs this week is yet another amazing Kingston HyperX 240GB SATA 3 SSD with complete migration kit! This month, TSSDR has teamed up with Kingston to give away a 240GB capacity Kingston HyperX ‘LSI SandForce Driven’ SSD each week. This contest will be open to Canada and USA …