Transcend today launched their MSA720 mSATA SSD, offering this small form-factor (3cm x 5cm) drive in 64Gb and 128Gb flavors. The MSA720 features SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) built around the SandForce SF2281 controller, with blistering speeds of up to 560MB/s read and 530MB/s write, and impressive 4K random file writes up to 91,000 IOPS, making it possibly one of the fastest …
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Mach Xtreme Releases MX-KATANA, Creating Solid State Competition For The MacBook Air
Mach Xtreme Technology, well known for their extensive SSD product line, has announced the release of their low-profile 6Gb/s MX-KATANA Series of drives, which have been developed specifically with cramped quarters in mind. This means they should be a perfect complement to mobile devices such as Apple’s MacBook Air. Being LSI Sandforce based, the new products will offer Read/Write speeds of up to …
Read More »OCZ Vertex 4 Receives Much Anticipated Firmware Update Promising Higher Performance
Just over a month ago, OCZ released it’s new Vertex 4 6Gbps SSD which garnished industry praise as a result of it’s ability to handle highly incompressible data such as movies, photographs and music, however, many felt the V4 was a little conservative when testing in compressible data. To most, this might never be noticeable except for the fact that …
Read More »Crucial M4 256GB SSD At All Time Low Price Point
The fact that Crucial would be a leader in competitive SSD pricing has been front and center for quite some time now. In fact, only a few days ago we posted what we thought to be a great deal on the Crucial M4 128GB SSD as it broke the $1/GB barrier and seemed to be a sign of things to …
Read More »Current SSD Projects On The Go
Every now and then, it’s nice to give a bit of a heads up as to what we are working on behind the scenes at The SSD Review as it may be a good measure of articles yet to come. Having started in the SSD field back in 2007, it’s easy to say that the ‘fun’ I have playing with …
Read More »Hitachi Announces SAS 12 Gbps SSD Capable of 4.8GB/s Performance
Hitachi Global Storage Technology, well known for their high performance storage solutions, has unveiled the very first SAS 12 Gbps SSD which is capable of a total available interface bandwidth of 4.8GB/s per drive. The SAS 12Gbps interface represents the highest performance interconnect seen on SSDs thus far, aside from PCIe of course. The new drives will be on display …
Read More »Crucial M4 128GB SATA 3 SSD Breaks $1/GB Barrier
It has been a long time coming but seeing SSDs break that $1/GB barrier is becoming pretty common these days. In fact, yesterday, Amazon sold out of the M4 128GB SATA 3 SSD at $128.99 so what did they do? They dropped the price to $124.99 and increased availability significantly. If you were ever on the fence with respect to …
Read More »New SanDisk Extreme SSD Firmware Fixes TRIM
We took a look at the SanDisk Extreme a few months ago, and found it to be one of the fastest drives on the market, combining the tried-and-true SandForce 2281 with Toshiba’s 24nm Toggle NAND. A new FW update for the Extreme promises to fix TRIM for the drive. When being used in IDE mode the TRIM command would not …
Read More »Permabit’s Albireo Dedupe Technology Lowers The Cost Of Enterprise Flash
Permabit’s Albireo Data deduplication technology is now supporting enterprise level flash technologies. By deduplicating data before it ever hits the flash, Permabit is claiming it can reduce the cost of enterprise flash storage by 5x to 35x. Not because the enterprise solid state device is somehow cheaper thanks to Albireo, but because you don’t need as much flash to hold an …
Read More »Major SSD Vendors Drop Prices In An Attempt To Remove Smaller Competitors From Contention
When it comes to SSDs, we all know that pricing is, in many cases, the pivotal factor that helps determine whether or not consumers will even keep a given product on their purchasing compass. Certainly, this has been a major source of discord in the industry, especially among those that offer LSI SandForce based products. This is understandable, as cost is, …
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