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Crucial Technology today announced the imminent release of their Crucial V4 SSD. Crucial’s new V4 will be equipped with a SATA 2 interface, underscoring the demand for lower end SSDs in the marketplace. Crucial’s new product will deliver read/write speeds of up to 230MB/s and 190MB/s respectively. The new drives will be available in capacities of 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB …

LSI today announced significant upgrades to it’s SandForce SF-2200/2100 Flash Storage Processors (FSPs) to ensure their standing as the ideal SSD processor choice for today’s Ultrabook market. The key takeaway for the consumer is that their new Ultra may realize as much as an hour longer battery life, better boot times, all the while realizing the significant performance benefits of …

Our Mushkin Atlas mSATA SSD report of last week showed the Atlas as being one of the best SSDs on the market, however, it did have an Achilles Heel with respect to pricing. We even went so far as to deny the Atlas the much deserved Editor’s Choice recognition as we believed  a difference of $100 between the Atlas and …

If it weren’t weren’t enough that we were all taking bets as to who was going to win the arm wrestle between Seagate and Micron over any potential OCZ purchase, Seagate stunned the storage world today by luring back Gary Gentry from Micron to be their Senior Vice President SSD. The totally odd part of this announcement is that it …

A ‘measuring stick’ seems to have evolved in the SSD arena where performance can be separated by the type of data being tested.  Some SSDs excel in transferring compressible data while others in incompressible data, such as we might see in music, video and photography. Our report today will evaluate the new OCZ Agility 4 256GB SSD which houses the …

Runcore has announced that they will be opening a state of the art SSD manufacturing facility in Changsha, China. This move is apparently part of a plan to spur unprecedented growth in the company over the next three years. When finished, according to Runcore, the new plant will offer “the most advanced production capabilities in the industry” giving them an eminent …

It’s official the 2012 Summer Olympics have begun! It seems, no matter which channel you turn to, you will get coverage or at least an update on the athletes or the shananigans surrounding them.  This may take away from the ‘reality shows’ that have invaded every network. Thank goodness, bring on the games! HIGHLIGHT REVIEW Ever been a passenger on an …

Texas Memory Systems has announced the release of their RamSan-70 PCIe SSD. The RamSan-70 will employ the use of up to 900 GB of SLC memory, and deliver 1.5 million IOs per second, not to mention bandwidth of 2.5 GB per second and an ultra-low access latency of 30-60 microseconds. This should ensure that any server equipped with one of …

24nm Toggle is hot these days. From the Plextor M3P to the SanDisk Extreme and all points in between, 24nm Toggle from Toshiba is a performance favorite. When we looked at SMART’s XceedIOPS2 earlier this year, the potent combination of enterprise-class SF-2582 controller and 32nm Toshiba eMLC did not disappoint. But in keeping with the times, SMART has seen fit to …

NAID, the National Association for Information Destruction, has formed a working group to tackle data destruction on solid state storage. NAID’s special team of industry personnel (they use the slightly more serious sounding term “task force”) will study the murky world of data security in the solid state age. Some studies we’ve seen show that traditional secure erasure combined with …

Toshiba has announced it will be cutting back its supply of NAND flash memory. Toshiba didn’t state a specific reason for ramping down production, though they did talk about a general trend when it came to “weak pricing” of storage products meant for consumer electronic devices, presumably due to nothing more than waning demand for what have pretty much become …

This SSD report will be a detailed analysis of the OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSD, the first and only third party SSD compatible with the new 2012 MacBook Air. This report will also carry things a step further by detailing our migration of the Aura Pro into our 2012 MBA, a system that we had successfully set up …

Transcend, well known for their myriad storage and memory solutions, has announced the release of its new SSD320 6Gb/s SSD. The LSI Sandforce based drive will deliver read and write speeds of up to 560MB/s and 530MB/s respectively. Also offered is random 4k performance of up to 87,000 IOPS, up from from the 60,000 IOPS seen on most garden variety SF-2281 based …

Following in the footsteps of OCZ, Corsair, Crucial and probably one or two others, Mushkin is introducing its Catalyst Caching line of SSDs which are available in 50GB and 100GB capacities and are both SATA 3 speeds. The Catalyst family uses the very successful NVELO Dataplex Caching software that we have reviewed several times prior and the best thing about …

When the thunder rolls! Lighting strikes somewhere and although we can’t see exactly where we know it’s close because less than five seconds later there is a crack of thunder.  You know it is a true thunderstorm when these events happen so close together. As we are collected in the garage to avoid the rain it’s a great experience and conversation …