Tag Archives: Solid State Drive

Our visit to the Solidata booth at CeBIT today brought with it something we never expected to see, this being a Solidata X8 ‘SandForce Driven’ SSD with hardware secure erase. The picture below displays a long red cord with a button on the end that, when pressed, ensures complete  destruction of the SSDs data. This hardware secure erase method physically …

The trend toward SSD caching solutions continues with Corsair’s announcement of availability of its Accelerator series of solid-state cache drives. Corsair is advertising the Accelerator series as an easy and affordable way to boost your PC system performance by up to 5 times! The Accelerator series of cache SSDs  support Windows 7 operating systems with support for Windows 8 already …

To many, the name Biwin is definitely not synonymous with many SSD drives that they might consider in their future purchase, but that may change soon enough. Biwin has been in the flash storage business for 16 years and, as surprising as it may seem, has already established very strong strategic partnerships with many names you would know, to include …

An early morning stop at the Patriot Booth this morning brought news of two upcoming SSD releases, these being the Wildfire Pro and a totally new controller based SSD called the Magma. Not to shocking was the fact that they would be moving the Wildfire SE line to 2xnm NAND flash memory in the near future but these two entries …

Just a little note to all that there may be a ghost crew around the office for the next week as we are heading off to Germany for a our first look at CEBit! CEBit is being held in Hannover from 6 to 10 March 2012 and is reputed to be one of the largest technology events in the world, …

If we told you that we spent $2400 to right a wrong in proving something that you as a consumer should be aware of, would you believe us? This report closely examines the ASUS Zenbook.  Within the ‘Zen’, ASUS may provide either of two SATA 3 SSDs, these being the AData ‘SandForce Driven’ XM11 or the Sandisk U100. There is …

Today’s SSD exclusive is going to be a first look at Samsung’s new PM830 SATA 3 mSATA 256GB SSD. This SSD is rather unique as it is one of the first SATA 3 SSDs to be released at the 256GB capacity range and, although laptops and ultrabooks that can utilize it are still limited to just a few, the call …

Toshiba has put a strong foot forward into the enterprise SSD storage arena with their 6 Gbb/s MKx001GRZB series of drives that also feature 32nm SLC NAND Flash Memory.  These drives are available in capacities of 100 / 200 / 400 GB. The 6 GB/s interface lets these SSDs achieve sequential speeds of 500MB/s reads and 250MB/s writes.  4K random …

Its been some time since Samsung has put out an SSD video but they seem to be spreading the SSD love throughout Europe as of late. It seems that Samsung has taken 50 of their prized 830 Series SSDs, one ambulance turned Tech bench and 4 SSD angels (of which one definitely is) and has toured Europe in hopes of …

Everyone is getting in on the SSD caching action these days. Through software, or a combination of software and hardware, using fast SSDs to speed up slower mechanical storage seems like a catchy idea. Enter the HighPoint 3420X8 RocketCache which enables you to mix up to 4 devices for your caching pleasure.  Would you like to mix three SSDs and …