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The storage industry is shifting from 3Gb/s devices to the new 6Gb/s specification which has been a boon to manufacturers as new devices are needed to handle the new, faster devices that 6Gb/s enables. The 3Gb/s specification reigned  for roughly five years which allowed user speeds up to 300 MB/s. With the advent of “disruptive” technologies like SSD devices, the …

OCZ Technology announces the Talos series, a line of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSDs designed for enterprise applications that require ultra-fast, high capacity solutions equipped with multi-level cell (MLC) NAND. Talos brings new strength to the Company’s storage lineup by expanding the availability of OCZ’s proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) technology to storage OEMs. . “We have experienced considerable demand …

Today we are testing the new Areca 1880ix-12 RAID controller. This is Areca’ premier SATA 3 internal RAID offering and signifies a great leap forward for a company known to cater to the enthusiast crowd. With the speed and power of SSDs reinventing mainstream storage, RAID card manufacturers have been under tremendous pressure to deliver a product that can handle …

Sandforce has announced its release of a new SATA3 SSD processor that is capable of, not only equaled 500MB/s read and write speeds, but also, random read and write IOPS at the 4k random transfer level will sustain an unbelievable rate of 60k. A few days ago, The SSD Review was contacted by Michael Schoolnik of Story Public Relations and …