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It was refreshing to see SSD manufacturers going into incredible detail to provide an understanding of their SSD products this year at Computex.  This particularly stands true of both BIWIN and APacer who spoke to power loss protection by explaining the purpose of capacitors, and even type, in their booth displays.  APacer went one further to even provide the buyer …

Although it isn’t news to some, it is a very interesting consideration most should make when selecting their new ultra and PC systems this year.  Hard drives are not compliant with the new SATA DEVSLP spec and this includes hybrid devices, although we wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t overcome sometime in the future.  SATA DEVSLP only works for SSDs.  …

Taipei City, Taiwan is buzzing with news this week as Computex 2013 is underway. Some of the top technology media personal are here covering the most up-to-date technology releases. HIGHLIGHT REVIEW Corsair Looks Outside the Box @ TechnologyX Corsair is starting Computex 2013 off with style as it has unwrapped two new additions to the Carbide line – Air 540 and 330R. Prioritizing …

SuperTalent threw in a bit of intrigue this year at Computex in Taipei by introducing a new and updated RAIDDrive 2 Plus PCIe SSD with significantly higher performance compared to the previous version.  The RAIDDrive Plus 2 is capable of an amazing 2.8GB/s read and 3GB write performance and available in caacities up to 2TB.  SuperTalent’s Marketing Manager Roman Nahal …

We spoke to the new DEVSLP SATA specification a bit earlier this week and we are seeing a few manufacturers already preparing for its implementation.  DEVSLP is only possible with SSDs and enables your system to continuously update, all the while preserving battery life while it is in an ultra low power sleep mode.  As much as many might think …

The move to TLC NAND flash memory has been expected for some time but a new trend seems to be showing itself at Computex this year that is definitely unexpected, this being the move away from LSI SandForce over to Marvell.  Three manufacturers specifically (Memoright, SanDisk, BIWIN) have spoken to us about this and when asked why they might be …

Super Talent Technology, a premier manufacturer of storage solutions that utilize NAND flash, is announcing the release of their UltraDrive MX3 SSD.  The MX3 features speed and durability to help withstand high endurance atmospheres that expose SSDs to shock, vibration, and extreme temperatures. The UltraDrive MX3 utilizes a SATAIII (6 GB/s) interface in a 2.5″ form factor.  It features sequential …

Tegile Systems today announced that its joint reference architecture with Cisco Systems and VMware has been added to the VMware View Rapid Desktop Program and is now certified as a proven configuration that enables the fast and easy deployment of VDI desktops. The goal of the Rapid Desktop Program is to accelerate the adoption of VMware View solutions by enabling …

SATA DEVSLP DEVSLP is a new SATA SSD standard that will be found with new Haswell chipset laptops and ultra portables and allows your system to go into a very deep sleep and still update system services, as well as such things as e-mail.  It is much the same as your smartphone today where it is constantly updating and starts …

Walking into the storage area of Nangang Hall at Computex 2013, the first company one sees this year is Plextor who, as with most others, have a wealth of SSD offerings for potential buyers to check out.  As we would soon find out, the common thread of all SSD companies seemed to be new introductions as a result of smaller …

Perhaps one of the most frequent SSD questions we get these days is where has LSI SandForce been with their new generation of controllers, or as they like it termed, ‘flash storage processors’.  The SF-2000 has had a very successful run in the SATA 3 world and built on the success of the SF-1000.  Since it’s release however, we have …

As much as we would like to say that we wouldn’t have believed it if we hadn’t seen it, the truth is that this is one of those finds that has to be seen in operation first hand before anyone will believe it…but it was right there before our eyes. Today at Computex 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan, ADATA introduced their …

LSI is announcing immediate availability of its new Syncro CS storage solution for small and medium-sized business (SMB), and for remote and branch offices (ROBO).  The Syncro CS is a robust, cost-effective and easy to deploy high availability storage solution for not-so-huge applications.  In conjunction with Microsoft Windows Server 2012, the Syncro CS brings shared storage and storage controller failover …

When we first caught wind of the Adaptec Series 7 RAID adapters late last year, we were itching for the chance to get it in our test bench. But, in order to do the review justice, we needed SSDs. We needed a LOT of SSDs. We needed 24 SSDs. Unfortunately, sampling even 4 or 8 SSDs at one time is …

Memoright, well known for military and high-end industrial storage, is using Computex 2013 to announce several new products.  They will be offering a wide array of SATAIII industrial storage devices, including ultra-high speed PCIe SSDs, 1.8″ and 2.5″ form factor SSDs, mSATA, SATA DOM and CFast devices to serve ever-increasing demand for all types of SSDs. Memoright has crafted a …