Kingston Technology, a strong NAND-flash memory maker, is reportedly planning to cut prices for all of its NAND-flash products; possibly by as much as 15%. This would include USB drives, memory modules, and its SSD products according to a Digitimes story. Kingston indicates that the anticipated price adjustments are coordinated with chips suppliers’ moving to more advanced process technologies that …
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Runcore, well known for their myriad SSD products, has announced the release of their new Pro-V Max series of drives. The products will be based on the SF-2281 and offer Read/Write speeds of 560MB/s and 520MB/s respectively. The drives will also deliver 87K burst IOPS, and over 60K sustained IOPS. They also mention that the drive has a score of …
Read More » Micron CEO Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash this morning at the Boise, Idaho Airport, home of Micron Headquarter. Appleton, a long time plane enthusiast, was flying his single engine fixed wing Piper Lancair when the accident occurred. Appleton is well respected by all in the industry as he earned his place at Micron from the ground up, …
Read More » Lite-On IT is expecting to see a huge growth in SSD sales in 2012, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. Taiwan-based Lite-On is a maker of optical disc drives that ventured in to SSD production three years ago. They are expected to increase their SSD revenue from a little over $34 million US in 2011 to over $200 million …
Read More » Nimbus Data, well known for their enterprise storage systems, has unveiled their new E-Series storage array. The E-Class products will offer software support for iSCSI, FibreChannel, Infiniband, 1Gbe and 10 Gbe interfaces. In addition, they will be compatible with both NFS (network file system) and CIFS (common internet file system). The new product can also function as a giant RAID device, and includes RAID …
Read More » Today we had the chance to speak directly with representatives from TCS about their newest addition to their line of SSDs, the Galatea SSD. TCS is a world leader in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology that was founded in 1987. The SSD side of the business, TRW components, was recently incorporated into TCS in February of 2011. This …
Read More » Fujitsu, a one time supplier of high performance SCSI and mobile hard drives, has announced the release of a new SSD line. Based on the SF-2281 controller, the drives will offer 550MB/s reads and 500MB/s writes along with 55,000 and 40,000 R/W IOPs . Interestingly, it seems that in addition to its old hard drive division, Fujitsu has eliminated their marketing …
Read More » In 2010, Other World Computing was one of the first to start shipping SSDs with a SandForce controller. Like those first SF drives, OWC’s new Enterprise Pro 6Gbps uses a SF processor and 28% over-provisioning. After that, the similarities end. The Enterprise Pro SSD utilizes eMLC, as is becoming popular in enterprise-style drives. Unlike many other eMLC drives, the Enterprise Pro is …
Read More » Welcome back! If the speed in which we are seeing affiliate reviews arrive is any indication of whats in store for 2012, watch out! We have some amazing reviews below and will be completing some great SSD reviews this weekend so stay tuned! Continue to stop by and check out the new reviews, updates and maybe even jump into one …
Read More » LSI CEO Abhi Taklwarkar announced that EMC will be leveraging their WarpDrive PCIe line of SSDs for their Project Lightning during their recent earnings call. This is a huge design win for LSI and its WarpDrive PCIe solid state drives. This is certainly welcome news as LSI begins to ramp up for production of the WarpDrive 2 family. EMC is …
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