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Summer has come and gone, and over the past few months, there have been quite a few SSDs released into the market, and the question of, “Which SSD should I buy?” seems to still come up a lot around forums. Usually, there are some predetermined recommended favorite in each. Today we feel we should provide our own answer to the …

Green House, an environmentally-conscious Japanese producer of high-quality and cost-effective consumer electronics products, is announcing its latest SATA 6.0GB/s solid-state drive, designated as the GH-SSD32C.  The GH-SSD32C will feature MLC NAND flash memory managed by a Phison PS3108-S8 controller. The GH-SSD32C comes in the standard 2.5″ x 7mm form factor, making it compatible with both desktop and notebook/laptop PCs.  It …

Mach Xtreme Technology, a global producer of high-performance, high-reliability and user-friendly PC components, is announcing their MX-ES Ultra series of USB 3.0 flash drives.  The MX-ES Ultra USB 3.0 flash drives will feature the superior speed and reliability of SLC NAND, rather than the MLC NAND that is typically found in other USB 3.0 flash drives.  Utilizing SLC NAND makes …

ADATA Technology, a leading producer of high performance DRAM memory and NAND Flash devices, is announcing the ISMS312, its new high-performance SATA III (6Gb/s) 7-pin Disk-On-Module (DOM) solid-state drive (SSD).  The ISMS312 SATA-DOM is geared toward industrial computers, embedded storage applications, medical devices and network infrastructure devices.  The ISMS312 also features industrial-grade S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring capabilities, and is customizable to …

A few weeks back, we published our announcement of Kingstons newest v310 SSD, which features just shy of 1 TB of storage.  It was not greeted with open arms.  To explain the controversy we were met with from the moment we published this story, the 1TB V310 had a MSRP of $928.00, and random 4K read speeds are stated as …

SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading producer of flash storage solutions, is announcing the Ultra II SSD, their first TLC memory equipped SSD, which is being targeted to the mainstream notebook and PC market.  Notebook-compatible SSDs continue to increase in capacity, at the same time as they continue to go down in cost.  More and more laptops and notebooks are shipping with …

There is so much conflict happening in this world that it is mind ‘boggling’.  I’m not saying that people’s issues are not legitimate or important, but it would be nice if there was a more civilized way to deal with them.  We can all do our part to try and keep things on a level playing field and that is …

Historically, Flash-based storage has been considered to be a rather expensive niche technology that is targeted at a rather narrow range of workloads, as opposed to anything resembling mainstream technology.  According to an International Data Corporation (IDC) analysis, the tide is definitely beginning to turn to much broader adoption of Flash-based storage for data center usage.  The momentum for this …

Well, things have been very busy here at FMS over the past few days and now it is finally drawing to a close. Before we left, we stopped by the Plextor booth to see what was going on with them and their product line. There we saw a demonstration of their new PlexTurbo. PlexTurbo is a RAM caching solution that …

From the many things we have seen at FMS this year, we were surprised to see two things from LiteOn. One being their 1TB P1P M.2 form factor enterprise drive and the other being their 2TB 7mm 2.5″ N9S drive. At the booth was a demo set up showing off over 5,500MB/s speeds in I/O meter with fifteen 2TB N9S …