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Our first stop of the morning, at CeBIT 2012 in Hannover, Germany, was with Peter Carcione and Super Talent to speak with them with respect neW and upcoming releases.  Much as expected, we were able to get first hand shots and have a bit of a discussion on the newly released RAIDDrive II,as well as the upcoming Upstream PCIe SSD. …

The trend toward SSD caching solutions continues with Corsair’s announcement of availability of its Accelerator series of solid-state cache drives. Corsair is advertising the Accelerator series as an easy and affordable way to boost your PC system performance by up to 5 times! The Accelerator series of cache SSDs  support Windows 7 operating systems with support for Windows 8 already …

To many, the name Biwin is definitely not synonymous with many SSD drives that they might consider in their future purchase, but that may change soon enough. Biwin has been in the flash storage business for 16 years and, as surprising as it may seem, has already established very strong strategic partnerships with many names you would know, to include …

If you believe you are going to get a close look at ultrabooks in this update , you might be a bit disappointed.  If we might suggest a cure to your ailment, however, let us recommend Intel’s owned hand picked Ultra Nurses to ease the pain. Imagine, if you will, that you work at Intel and your boss tells you …

PNY Technology, well known for its storage and graphics products, has announced the release of its fourth generation Professional SSD line. The new LSI Sandforce based SSDs will deliver read and write speeds of 550MB/s and 520MB/s as well as random write performance of 60,000 4k IOPS. The ‘Professional’ series will be available in capacities of 120GB, 240GB and 480GB. Pricing starts …

An early morning stop at the Patriot Booth this morning brought news of two upcoming SSD releases, these being the Wildfire Pro and a totally new controller based SSD called the Magma. Not to shocking was the fact that they would be moving the Wildfire SE line to 2xnm NAND flash memory in the near future but these two entries …

I know this is, in no way, SSD related but this deserved a quick shout.  An absolutely great find while at CeBIT on Day One was the Zeiss Cinemizer OLED 3D mutimedia video glasses. With HDMI 3D technology, we were able to sit in the driver seat of a race car or take off on a virtual reality helicopter ride. The …

Our first stop at CEBit 2012 in Hannover, Germany, was at the OCZ booth and were we in for a shock.  It wasn’t ten minutes since the doors opened and the crowd surrounding OCZ enterprise products was unbelievable.  So much for getting those early shots right? Hoping to be the first to visit the OCZ  booth, we think even they …

Good things often come in small packages. SSDs are one of the finest examples of said axiom, but even they aren’t small enough for the task at times. STEC is adding a new enterprise-grade SSD for embedded systems, which should put enterprise SSD features in a diminutive form-factor.  ATM machines, GPS units, and those DVD rental kiosks are all embedded …

Buffalo Technology, well known for their networking and storage solutions, has apparently released their very first internal SSD. Dubbed the SSD-NS/PM3P, the drive will be available in capacities of 128, 256 and 512GB, each of which will offer read speeds of 500MB/s, 513MB/s and 479MB/s respectively, according to Crystal Disk Mark. The drives will initially be available in Japan, with prices …

By now you have all heard of and maybe even tried Skyping with a friend or family member? I personally love this option, while my son was in Afghanistan a few years ago it was our life line to seeing and believing that he was ok. With family across the country and a husband travelling over seas, it saves on long distance …

Just a little note to all that there may be a ghost crew around the office for the next week as we are heading off to Germany for a our first look at CEBit! CEBit is being held in Hannover from 6 to 10 March 2012 and is reputed to be one of the largest technology events in the world, …

OCZ has announced the release of their new SANRAD-VXL Storage Accelerator. The VXL is a flash caching solution targeted at enterprise environments and will also provide VM-Ware acceleration. It can be paired with OCZ’s Z-Drive R4 CloudServ SSD and will also provide support for traditional iSCSI and FC storage. OCZ’s SANRAD-VXL will be available immediately. In an attempt to get this …

If we told you that we spent $2400 to right a wrong in proving something that you as a consumer should be aware of, would you believe us? This report closely examines the ASUS Zenbook.  Within the ‘Zen’, ASUS may provide either of two SATA 3 SSDs, these being the AData ‘SandForce Driven’ XM11 or the Sandisk U100. There is …

A little over two months ago, Seagate completed its acquisition of Samsung’s hard drive division, leaving only three major players in the magnetic storage industry. Actually, not quite three, as Toshiba remained as well. The problem was that this veritable “David” wasn’t actually in any position to take on what were the three remaining “Goliaths” of this industry. The reality …