Kingston Technology, a strong NAND-flash memory maker, is reportedly planning to cut prices for all of its NAND-flash products; possibly by as much as 15%. This would include USB drives, memory modules, and its SSD products according to a Digitimes story. Kingston indicates that the anticipated price adjustments are coordinated with chips suppliers’ moving to more advanced process technologies that …
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Runcore Announces Pro-V Max SSD as Perks Overtake Presentation
Runcore, well known for their myriad SSD products, has announced the release of their new Pro-V Max series of drives. The products will be based on the SF-2281 and offer Read/Write speeds of 560MB/s and 520MB/s respectively. The drives will also deliver 87K burst IOPS, and over 60K sustained IOPS. They also mention that the drive has a score of …
Read More »Lite-On IT announces Massive SSD Profit Estimates as Four ‘Top Ten’ PC Vendors Climb Aboard
Lite-On IT is expecting to see a huge growth in SSD sales in 2012, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. Taiwan-based Lite-On is a maker of optical disc drives that ventured in to SSD production three years ago. They are expected to increase their SSD revenue from a little over $34 million US in 2011 to over $200 million …
Read More »MyDigitalSSD ‘Bullet Proof’ 128GB mSATA SATA 2 SSD Review
Our evaluation today will be a detailed analysis of the MyDigitalSSD 128GB 50mm ‘Bullet Proof’ mSATA SSD and the price point ( a mere $179.99) and timing of this SSDs arrival couldn’t be better. Considering the latest entries of laptops with dual mSATA/HDD storage access along with the first round of new Ultrabook family releases, mSATA SSDs are making an …
Read More »Nimbus Data Announces E-Series SSD Array And Gives HDDs A Run For Their Money
Nimbus Data, well known for their enterprise storage systems, has unveiled their new E-Series storage array. The E-Class products will offer software support for iSCSI, FibreChannel, Infiniband, 1Gbe and 10 Gbe interfaces. In addition, they will be compatible with both NFS (network file system) and CIFS (common internet file system). The new product can also function as a giant RAID device, and includes RAID …
Read More »TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) Announces Ultra-Rugged Galatea SSD – Interview
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 …
Read More »Fujitsu Launches SSD Line As The Old Guard Protects Its Turf
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 …
Read More »Samsung SSD SM825 400GB Enterprise SSD Review – 3Gbps eMLC Data Center Edition
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 …
Read More »OCZ Nocti 120GB mSATA SSD Review – Great Performance Weighs In At Less Than 10 Grams
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 …
Read More »Trimming the Lion – Trim Enabler 2.0 for OSX Lion Released and is FREE!
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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