Western Digital has announced the release of the world’s thinnest 2.5″ hybrid drive. Targeted at Ultrabooks, the drive will weigh in at a mere 5mm thick, undercutting even the thinnest 7mm drives currently on the market. The new products will deliver up to 500GB of storage space and will be conducive to systems with severely cramped quarters. The drives should be …
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SuperMicro has achieved up to million IOPS in their SYS-6047R-TXRF servers using STEC’s PCIe SSDs (or SSAs as STEC refers to them, for Solid State Accelerators). These servers are based on the Intel Xeon E5-2600 family of CPUs (Socket 2011) and support up to 512GB of RAM. STEC’s current PCIe offerings are based on their own silicon, and come in PCIe Gen2 …
Read More » Well it seems that Week 2 of our Grand Birthday SSD Giveaway Celebration may be as big as the first…and then some. This week, TSSDR has teamed up with Corsair to draw, not one but, two newly released Corsair Neutron 240GB SSDs as part of our SSD Giveaway event and it gets even better as one is the GTX release! …
Read More » QLogic, known for their enterprise storage infrastructure solutions, has announced the release of their Mt. Rainier SSD caching technology. Mt. Rainier is a targeted solution meant to accelerate SAN performance while at the same time simplifying deployment of SSD caching in servers. Interestingly, the caching solution will not only be transparent to server side applications, but to the OS as …
Read More » OWC has today announced a little something that the SSD industry seems to have overlooked, but had to find its way to the surface eventually. This is a PCIe Controller Card that accommodates mSATA SSDs and it has been aptly named the OWC Mercury AccelsiorM PCIe Controller Card. Given its ability, I am sure we will be seeing one of …
Read More » SanDisk, well known throughout the industry for their wide variety of storage products, has announced the release of their ReadyCache SSD caching solution. ReadyCache will include a 32GB SSD as well as Condusive Technologies’ ExpressCache, which is comparable to software that is being offered by the likes of NVELO. Based on what we already know about SSD caching, SanDisk’s new …
Read More » Sometimes I get a bit confused I guess. As of Sunday, we started our Grand Birthday Mega SSD Giveaway Celebration and, to this point, the odds of winning our first SSD, a 512GB OCZ Vertex 4 are better than 1/150. How do you go wrong with this? Has there even been a draw for a 512GB SSD prior? We are …
Read More » This week marks the second anniversary of The SSD Review and we wanted to find a way to celebrate and thought giving away a few SSDs might be a good idea. Were we in for a shock? The support we received in response to our request for ‘an SSD or two’ has been overwhelming and we think that, by the …
Read More » Western Digital has announced the release of its Thunderbolt enabled My Book VelociRaptor Duo SSD. The external drive will contain two 10,000 RPM Velociraptor HDDs which can be configured as either a JBOD, RAID 0 or RAID 1 array. According to Western Digital, the drive will be able to sustain a maximum transfer rate of up to 400 MB/s, rivaling …
Read More » Kingston Technology has announced the release of their new enterprise focused E100 SSD at VMWorld 2012 this week. This is actually the second enterprise class SSD from Kingston, the first being their KC100. Nevertheless, it should be interesting to see how it fares against the competition. According to Kingston, the new products will provide up to 10x the endurance of …
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