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’. …
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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, 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 …
Read More » 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 …
Read More » Intel’s 313 SSDs, codenamed Hawley Creek, have been shipping for several weeks now. The 313 series, successor to last-year’s 311 Larson Creek SSD, may be shipping to laptop manufacturers too. The 313 is a small capacity SSD intended to accelerate traditional HDDs through caching. The 311 was released last year in a mSATA and 2.5″ version to coincide with the release …
Read More » 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 …
Read More » 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 …
Read More » 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 …
Read More » Mach Xtreme has announced the release of their mainstream oriented MX-Jet Ultra series of drives. Built around a SATA 2 interface, the new drives will deliver read/write speeds of up to 270MB/s and 180MB/s respectively. The SSDs will also deliver random performance of up to 15,000 4k IOPS. The drives will be offered in capacities of 64GB, 128GB and 256GB. They will …
Read More » Today is the first of two days for the Solid State Virtual Summit by AVNET Embedded and I thought I might throw this quick article as I believe this to be the most valuable resource (other than our Site of course) that I have seen in some time. The Summit is totally FREE and registration is necessary to join the …
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