Summer is truly here! We just returned from a motorcycle ride out to the hills of West Virginia. While we didn’t go totally without our electronics, we did give ourselves a ‘time-out’ to enjoy our friends and a beautiful technology free wedding. That being said, back to reality and the fact that we love our electronics and sharing information with you. …
Read More »VR-Zone Update — More Intel SSD 5Q Roadmap Info Published
As TSSDR reported a couple of days ago, Chinese site VR-Zone published Intel’s latest SSD roadmap. This roadmap indicates a pending 530 model release, along with M.2 NGFF form factor and mSATA series. VR-Zone has now posted an updated model chart related to the roadmap. The model chart indicates that the 530 series will be offered in M.2 form factor …
Read More »SanDisk’s Enterprise Portfolio Strengthens Yet Again With Acquisition Of SMART Storage Systems
SanDisk Corporation, a worldwide provider of flash memory storage, is announcing that it has agreed to acquire SMART Storage Systems. SMART is a developer and producer of enterprise-grade SATA and SAS solid state drives (SSDs). SMART Storage Systems has been experiencing rapid growth in its own right, with approximately $25 million in revenue in the latest business quarter that ended …
Read More »VR-Zone Posts Intel SSD 5Q Roadmap – LSI SandForce Based 530 and 1500/2500 Pro M.2 SSDs On The Way
We aren’t quite sure how they do it but VR-Zone has discovered and published the Intel SSD Roadmap once again, revealing that we should be seeing a 530 release, along with new M.2 NGFF form factors released in the very near future. Remaining with LSI SandForce, the 5Q Roadmap identifies the 530 as being available in both 2.5″ and M.2 form …
Read More »2013 MacBook Air NGFF PCIe SSD Review (256GB) – Pre-Configured MBA Doesn’t Set The ‘PC’ Performance Bar
If you’ve been hanging around TSSDR or Technology X lately, you will have noticed that Apple shipped us a brand smacking new MBA, complete with a Samsung 256GB NGFF PCIe SSD that spits out performance as high as 825MB/s. Since our initial MBA reports, we have had the opportunity to do what we do best and install Windows 7 on the …
Read More »BIWIN Announces H6201 Half-Slim Embedded SSD For Digital Signage
BIWIN, a global leader in NAND flash memory technology, is announcing the H6201, a half-slim business grade SSD that is being targeted for digital sign usage. Digital signage is a fast-growing field that is seeing more and more applications and uses. With digital signs appearing in both indoor and outdoor orientations, use of reliable, scalable and efficient components is vital …
Read More »SanDisk Extreme II SSD Review (240GB) – SanDisk Finds That Sweet Spot and Hits a Home Run
In baseball, there is a ‘sweet spot’ on the bat that everyone strives to hit when they strike the ball. It is the spot that home runs are made of and finding it means that the baseball will rebound with velocity never seen through contact with any other part of the bat. If the performance of the new SanDisk Extreme …
Read More »Western Digital Acquires sTec To Expand HGST’s Enterprise SSD Presence
Western Digital Corp. has announced that wholly-owned subsidiary HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) has acquired sTec, Inc. for around $340 million in cash. sTec’s enterprise SSD engineering expertise, application acceleration software experience and intellectual property will complement that of HGST. With enterprise being the other growth market for SSDs (beside mobile devices), HGST will now be able to more …
Read More »Monster Digital OverDrive 3.0 1TB External SSD Review – Unheard of SSD Portable Capacity at an Amazing Price
Last week we saw the first review of the Monster Digital OverDrive 3.0 512GB External SSD, only to be followed by a wicked review of the lightning fast Angelbird SSD2GO External SSD this past weekend. Today, the external SSD saga continues. The Monster Digital OverDrive 3.0 1TB Portable SSD that we are looking at today comes in as the largest …
Read More »LSI Announces Expansion Of Nytro PCIe Flash Adapter Product Offerings — Up to 3.2TB And Industry-First PCIe 3.0 Interface
LSI Corporation is announcing that it is expanding its product portfolio of Nytro PCIe Flash Adapters for Big Data / datacenter application acceleration. The new product offerings will include a high capacity 3.2TB Nytro WarpDrive flash adapter card. This latest LSI Nytro product expansion also includes increased capacity, connectivity and software features in their Nytro MegaRaid series of PCIe flash …
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