It wasn’t so long ago that OCZ released the Agility 3 Series of solid state drives in effort to fill the space held by the typical consumer looking for a high performing, value oriented solution for their SSD needs. OCZ stepped out once again today by announcing release of their new Agility 4 to stand beside the Vertex 4, the …
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RunCore’s latest offerings are of a slightly different nature. As of late, the Chinese firm has been focusing more on ruggedized SSDs for demanding applications like military deployment. Their new Rocket Air SSD goes in a different direction. Compatible with Mid-2011 MacBook Air laptops, the new RunCore is a “bubblegum” or “blade” style SSD. RunCore’s Rocket utilizes a mini-PCIe style …
Read More » The Crucial M4 has recently been the poster child for high performance at low prices. We’ve been following the M4’s pricing for a while now, and recent sales have been dropping the Crucial well below the 1GB/$ range. Yesterday, the 128GB variant was selling for a mere $99, which works out to around $0.83 cents per usable GB. The 256GB …
Read More » Read today how the latest big Canadian Lottery winner, $50,000,000.00, is planning to continue working. Crazy! I have to admit that, yes I would want to keep busy. but I would so be taking at least a year off to travel the world with those who meant the most to me. With that much money you could take each person, …
Read More » About a week ago, RunCore announced their InVincible self-destructing SSD, taking user-data security to a whole new level. Unsatisfied, they decided to add another exclusive hallmark. If frying circuitry isn’t your thing, it seems as though the Chinese-based company is tackling the security issue at a different angle, this time creating an SSD offering remote data-destruction via text messaging. I can’t decide which method …
Read More » LSI has put together a little something for the Cisco servers of the world. Leveraging EMC VFCache caching software and LSI’s Nytro WarpDrive PCIe solutions, LSI intends to extend PCIe SSD caching to EMC’s storage systems attached to Cisco’s Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. The goal is to reduce latency and service times in storage transactions coming from EMC’s storage …
Read More » Pure Storage is known for their all flash enterprise storage arrays, but it also looks like they have a talent for getting the gist across with a hilarious video on YouTube. Their ‘You Know You Want Flash, Right?’ video is more comedy than informative, but it’s certainly worth a watch for people who dig flash in all it’s glory. Their YouTube …
Read More » Just over a month ago, we conducted an analysis of what we thought to be the Comay Venus Pro 3 and, only after the review, were informed that we were actually looking at the Venus 3, an SSD that was not only branded incorrectly, but was also a special configuration for a specific customer. It appears our orders were mixed …
Read More » Released last year by BitFenix, the Shinobi became an instant hit in the chassis market, winning multiple awards in the process. Remakes are typically not as good as the originals, hence there was a sense of foreboding when BitFenix released the larger version of its mid-tower case; the Shinobi XL. Instead of a new design, the engineers at BitFenix boldly …
Read More » A beautiful start to summer, temperatures of 24 celsius with clear skies. It was great to get out on the motorcycle and just ride. Today, we headed west to Port Dover, an area famous for Friday the 13th rides. What I don’t think most people know is how beautiful this little town is, situated on the banks of Lake Erie. We …
Read More » Axtremex Technology, a global supplier of high performance memory solutions, has announced the release of their 1TB USB 3.0 SSD. Weighing in at only 45 grams, the new drive will deliver read/write performance of 240 MB/s and 150 MB/s respectively. Axtremex’s new product will no doubt be very successful at winning over those who have heavy duty external storage requirements …
Read More » Dane-Elec, one of the largest manufacturers of flash memory products, storage and consumer electronic devices, has launched their mySSD O-Series family of solid state drives. Designed for mobile, server, embedded, and outdoor computing, the 1.8″ SATA 3Gb/s SSD drives are built for the most grueling, high-threat and unpredictable environments. Of particular interest, however, is the fact that this SSD is one of …
Read More » RunCore has a solution for your SSD data security needs: physically destroying the flash. It’s an extreme solution, but one that may be necessary for military and sensitive deployments. It has a less drastic secure erase and overwrite option too, but that may not be good enough for some defense needs or may take longer than physical destruction. RunCore claims …
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Read More » NVM Express, seen by many in the SSD industry as the perfect replacement for SATA, will soon be implemented in silicon for the first time. Cadence Design Systems, a provider of logic design solutions, has announced that they will be delivering NVM Express IP to anybody interested in devoloping a PCIe SSD. Seeing as NVM Express is viewed by many …
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