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Team Group Releases Xtreem S3 Pro SSD As SF-2281 Performance Begins To Diverge
Team Group, well known for their memory and storage products, has announced the release of their Xtreem S3 Pro SSDs. The LSI Sandforce based product line will provide read/write speeds of up to 550MB/s and 520MB/s respectively. In regards to random write performance, the drives will deliver up to 90000 4k IOPS, setting a new precedent when it comes to LSI …
Read More »Fusion Io Releases ioFX PCIe SSD As Digital Media Drives The Industry Forward
Fusion IO, well known for their high performance, professional grade solid state drives and more recently, SSD caching solutions, has announced the release of their ioFX PCIe SSD. Part of their ioMemory platform, ioFX is intended to bring cost effective, souped up data storage to the workstation. The drive will deliver 1.5GB/s, and will allow artists to manipulate prodigious amounts of …
Read More »Tech Reviews for Friday, April 13, 2012 – Superstitious or Not
It’s a sunny Friday here in Niagara Canada and the bikers will soon be embarking on Port Dover. Do you have any rituals for Friday the 13th? Is it a good day or a bad? Do you have any other superstitions? I personally like this day and now that the sun is shining will jump on my motorcycle and head …
Read More »IO-Data Announces SSDN-3TB SSDs With New Toshiba SATA 3 SSD Controller
IO-Data, well known for its myriad storage products, has announced their latest SSD model, SSDN-3TB. Built around a new Toshiba 6Gbps storage controller, it will deliver read and write speeds of up to 480 MB/s and 350MB/s respectively. In addition, random performance is pegged at 73k IOPS for reads and 58k IOPS when it comes to writes. Initially available in …
Read More »Intel’s 910 PCIe SSD Enterprise Flash Controller Takes Aim At The Datacenter Storage Market
Intel is set to unleash a new SSD on the world’s datacenters and financial institutions. The 910 series is Intel’s first crack at a PCIe SSD and it’s aimed squarely at the high end. Using 4 Intel 10-channel SAS controllers, a PCI to SAS interface from LSI, and up to 800GB of high end HET-MLC, the 910 could shake up …
Read More »OCZ Vertex 4 Indilinx Infused SSD Controller Confirmed To Be Marvell Silicon
Earlier today, Anandtech announced his receipt of a tip, and confirmation that OCZ Vertex 4 and Octane contain controllers that are Marvell hardware based. After contacting OCZ, we received confirmation of such and this was furthered by the fact that the Marvell controller runs at higher clock speeds and features Indilinx proprietary firmware. When push comes to shove, the OCZ …
Read More »Tech Reviews from our Affiliates for April 11, 2012
Top baby names for the first quarter of 2012 have been released. Nice to see some ‘traditional names’. How does one come up with a baby name these days? How you do you look at your baby and decide you should be named ‘square’, (you get my drift). There are people named fruits, articles, historical events, didn’t we used to call those ‘nicknames’. …
Read More »Toshiba Releases NPEngine As Streaming Looks Set To Strengthen SSD Sales
Toshiba Corporation has announced the release of their NPEngine SSD to IP solution. Optimized for the speedy transfer of video streams, the new product offers an unprecedented approach to providing high bandwidth video content across networks. NPEngine is capable of delivering up to 64,000 streams at 40 Gbits per second from SSDs directly to a network, surpassing the capabilities of …
Read More »Kingston Adds New HyperX 3K SSDs For High Performance and a Lower Price Point
Kingston, longtime manufacturer of memory products, got it’s start in the SSD market years ago. Over the years, Kingston has evolved into a major player and now enjoys a partnership with LSI SandForce. Last year Kingston released the well-received HyperX SSD. A SF-2281 controller paired with Intel’s special, higher grade 25nm Synchronous ONFI 2.2 flash set the drive apart in …
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