Today we had the chance to speak directly with representatives from TCS about their newest addition to their line of SSDs, the Galatea SSD. TCS is a world leader in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology that was founded in 1987. The SSD side of the business, TRW components, was recently incorporated into TCS in February of 2011. This …
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SilenX is a company of humble beginnings, with a group of engineering students who craved for silence from their computers. Starting in 1995 these students began to test and develop cooling systems that became integrated into recording studios and sound labs, due to their impressive low noise performance. Fast forward 16 years, and SilenX is now providing efficient low decibel …
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Fujitsu, a one time supplier of high performance SCSI and mobile hard drives, has announced the release of a new SSD line. Based on the SF-2281 controller, the drives will offer 550MB/s reads and 500MB/s writes along with 55,000 and 40,000 R/W IOPs . Interestingly, it seems that in addition to its old hard drive division, Fujitsu has eliminated their marketing …
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In 2010, Other World Computing was one of the first to start shipping SSDs with a SandForce controller. Like those first SF drives, OWC’s new Enterprise Pro 6Gbps uses a SF processor and 28% over-provisioning. After that, the similarities end. The Enterprise Pro SSD utilizes eMLC, as is becoming popular in enterprise-style drives. Unlike many other eMLC drives, the Enterprise Pro is …
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In reviewing the Samsung SSD SM825 Data Center Edition 400GB eMLC solid state drive, we understand that we have wandered off the beaten path of normal consumer reviews but there are some things in this SSD that will just grab your attention. Although it’s interesting to see that Samsung has chosen its own premium eMLC NAND flash memory in the …
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The OCZ Nocti SATA 2 120GB mSATA SSD is on our bench today and, “Welcome to the Year of the mSATA SSD!” Three years ago, one wouldn’t have imagined that we could get such power from an SSD that is 1/3 the size of a business card and the height of a 25 cent piece. This year already, mSATA SSDs …
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Welcome back! If the speed in which we are seeing affiliate reviews arrive is any indication of whats in store for 2012, watch out! We have some amazing reviews below and will be completing some great SSD reviews this weekend so stay tuned! Continue to stop by and check out the new reviews, updates and maybe even jump into one …
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LSI CEO Abhi Taklwarkar announced that EMC will be leveraging their WarpDrive PCIe line of SSDs for their Project Lightning during their recent earnings call. This is a huge design win for LSI and its WarpDrive PCIe solid state drives. This is certainly welcome news as LSI begins to ramp up for production of the WarpDrive 2 family. EMC is …
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Apple’s OSX operating system has supported TRIM for some time now, however, users of non-Apple SSDs don’t get official support. Trim Enabler 2.0 has just been released and finds it’s way around that unfortunate decision by fooling OSX into thinking that an aftermarket drive is, in reality, a Apple-branded SSD. Mac owners, unsatisfied with the price and/or performance of Apple’s …
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The NVM Express working group has announced the release of Windows and Linux PCIe SSD drivers based on the NVM Express standard. The Windows driver was a collaborative effort of IDT, Intel, and LSI Sandforce and will be available under a BSD license. It will support all the mandatory features of the new spec. The Linux driver will be released …
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