SanDisk has had a very busy few days, flexing its muscle and letting the world know its intent to power into the consumer and client OEM SSD market in a big way. After the announcement of the Extreme SATA 3 SSD and the X100 series, they have announced today a strategic partnership with Diskeeper to exclusively license their SSD caching software …
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VIA Technologies, well known for their various peripheral controller solutions and low power x86 processors, has announced their intention to bring an SSD controller to market. According to VIA, the processors will be based on technology licensed from Tensilica and will offer 4x the performance of competing solutions. Specifically, Tensilica stated that their solution compares favorably with simply raising clock …
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It’s no surprise that SSD- based caching solutions are popular. Both for consumers and enterprise customers, flash based caching offers the ability to accelerate storage performance at lower price points. Needless to say, companies specializing in caching are hot commodities in the storage world. Today, SanDisk announced the purchase of FlashSoft, a provider of flash caching software for Windows, Linux, and VMWare. …
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Happy Valentines Day! Hope you did something special for your special someone? This is a day when the small things count. You don’t need a lot of money to express your love, do something kind for someone. I just read that over approximiately 15 million e-cards were sent in 2010. Unless you are halfway around the world from your loved one, I don’t think …
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Our recent RAID review of three Intel 520 SSDs on the Highpoint 2720SGL 6Gbps RocketRAID Controller opened our eyes as we didn’t think performance of 1.5GB/s could be reached with three SSDs. Those results were just a taste of what was yet to come as we simply had to throw eight Crucial M4 256GB SATA 3 SSDs onto the RocketRAID …
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The market for NAND flash memory is being forecast to top the IC product growth list in 2012. Fueled by the growth of consumer mobile devices, particularly smartphones & tablet PC’s, coupled with demand increase for SSD’s, the total NAND market is being forecast to surpass the total DRAM market for the first time ever in 2012. NAND flash has …
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We were right there to introduce Sandisk as being the first consumer available SSD in 2007 which, I guess you could say, made us one of the first to review SSDs as well. We have come a long way since! Here we are once again announcing Sandisks latest consumer release, the Extreme SATA 3 SSD, along with a new OEM …
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There are many companies marketing solid state storage products today. The landscape is broadening, yet we continue to see consolidation. Who are the players today and who will be around in ten years? Stay tuned in upcoming days as our follow up articles shed a bit of light on today’s SSD companies, focus on the business models of some, and maybe even …
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High performance solid state storage devices for enterprise and data center use are getting faster everyday it seems. Today, OCZ announced the release of their a new product, the OCZ Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe SSD. While the name is impressive, the specifications are decidedly more so. To start things off, the CloudServ is availability in several configurations up to an …
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Geil, well known for their high performance memory products, has announced the release of their Zenith S2 and S3 SSDs. The S2 will be a SATA 2 based drive and will offer up to 280MB/s and 270MB/s read and write speeds. The S3 will have a SATA 3 interface and will deliver transfer rates of well over 500MB/s, The S2 will …
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