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Welcome to our collection of news and reviews from around the web! If you are a technology website and would like us to post your hardware reviews, please contact us (top right) and leave a message. We would be glad to post a link to your news! CHASSIS Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edition PC Case Review @ RWLABS Rosewill Blackhawk Ultra …
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Our review today will be a long awaited look at the OCZ Octane 6Gbps 512GB SSD. Eight months ago, OCZ bought Indilinx with full intention of spreading their wings in the development of their own proprietary controller based on the Indlinx Everest design. OCZ has spoken of higher incompressible data performance, quicker disk access as well as better sustained write …
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Versant and Kove recently announced their strategic partnership and stated that moving forward will benefit both companies as well as their customers. We held a phone interview with Robert Greene, the Vice President of Technology at Versant, and Jim Hetherington, Director of Business Development at Kove, to flesh out some of the advantages of this new strategic partnership. IDC predicts …
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Read More »LSI Accelerating Innovation Summit – LSI WarpDrive 2 “Hybrid” PCIe SSD Prototype Observed
During the LSI Accelerating Innovation Summit we noticed a very intriguing looking device on display that stood alone, in that there was no name, test results or information included. Better yet, NOBODY would speak of it at all! At the top of what we will call the ‘WarpDrive Family’ case (pic below) was a new family member that, for all …
Read More »Intel Confirms Future Release of RST Will Support RAID 0 TRIM
Storage Review announced a great find a few days back which detailed that Intel will be bringing TRIM support to RAID0 configurations. This would be great news to those enthusiasts, small business and enterprise clients who presently have systems without RAID support or have been awaiting such. For those new to SSDs, TRIM is an automatic and background activity where …
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Welcome to our collection of news and reviews from around the web! If you are a technology website and would like us to post your hardware reviews, please contact us (top right) and leave a message. We would be glad to post a link to your news! CHASSIS CM Storm – Trooper Case Review @ Hardware Heaven CM Storm Trooper …
Read More »Corsair Performance Pro SATA 3 256GB SSD Review – Marvell Controller With a Punch
Corsairs newest Performance Pro SATA 3 SSD is on our bench today and get ready for some great benchmarks! After Crucial’s M4 punch which came as a result of their updated Marvell firmware, it was only a matter of time before another manufacturer came back swinging with the same Marvell controller in tow. To be quite frank, SSD enthusiasts have …
Read More »NEWS AND VIEWS FOR NOVEMBER 19, 2011
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We continue our coverage of exciting new products being announced and previewed this week at AIS 2011 (LSI Accelerating Innovation Summit). Right on the heels of the 12Gb/s introduction, LSI is trumping themselves with a new version of the WarpDrive, an innovative approach to PCI-E based solid state solutions. The space for this type of device is heating up after …
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Today at the LSI Accelerating Innovation Summit we were pleased to witness the unveiling of the first working silicon featuring the new 12Gb/s specification. Utilizing the new SAS expander IC, LSI was able to demonstrate speeds in excess of 1 million IOPS from a one adapter solution. The new controller series, featuring the 12Gb/s LSI ROC, makes its debut in …
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While at the LSI Accelerating Innovation Summit this week, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to spend a little time with SandForce. Their display showcased the combination of the SF-2000 series processor with Toshiba’s newest 24nm NAND flash memory, thus pushing the SSD fold just a bit further. The inclusion of Toshiba TH58TEG8D2HBA8C memory in consumer SSDs means lower prices and, …
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