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A Few Tech Reviews for April 8, 2012

HAPPY EASTER! How do you celebrate Easter? I decided to read up on how the holiday was celebrated around the world. I didn’t realize there are so many variations. I was intrigued to find out that,in France, Easter Fish and Bells are the highlight ‘icons’? I think I like the thought of the Easter Bunny better. Some  how a fish just isn’t …

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Tech Reviews from our Affiliates for April 6, 2012

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It seems that some people can get confused no matter how simple things appear to others. Today, I just want to take a moment and remind our readers that this ‘Daily News’ post is a compilation of the hard work of our affilliates. The information entailed within each of these reviews is based on the ‘writer’s’ findings. Sharing it in this fashion saves you a …

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Novachip Releases NVS3600A SSD Controller Propelling SSD Competition Forward

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Novachips, a Korean firm well known for their high performance storage products, is releasing a new high performance SSD controller into the wild. Dubbed NVS3600A, the processor will be capable of providing read/write speeds of up to 530MB/s and 520MB/s respectively. The controller will also deliver a commanding 60,000 4k IOPS, putting it on par with the best LSI Sandforce has …

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MOSAID First to Achieve Single Channel Full Performance 16-Die NAND Flash Stack

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MOSAID Technologies Inc. announces that it is sampling the industrys first NAND Flash MCP (multi-chip package) with a 16-die NAND stack operating on a single high-performance channel. MOSAIDs 512Gb HLNAND (HyperLink NAND) MCP combines a stack of 16 standard 32Gb NAND Flash die with two HLNAND devices to achieve 333MB/s output over a single byte-wide HLNAND interface channel. Imagine 1TB capacity …

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SNIA Hopes To Standardize PCIe SSDs As Industry Gets Set For Major Shift

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SNIA, who’s stated goal is “to promote acceptance, deployment, and confidence in storage-related architectures, systems, services, and technologies, across IT and business communities”, has announced that they will be forming a PCIe SSD Taskforce. This taskforce is charged with the duty of coordinating and providing guidance to the PCIe SSD marketplace. Their campaign will apparently include educational materials, best practices …

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LSI Releases Nytro PCIe Application Acceleration Architecture Family

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LSI announced today the launching of the LSI Nytro Application Acceleration Architecture, an entire family of PCIe based devices and software. Currently there are a multitude of solutions available from many different vendors of enterprise-class Solid State Storage and PCIe solutions. Many of these solutions are for niche users, and not easily integrated into the wider enterprise space. LSI is …

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