Tag Archives: SSD

VeloBit Celebrates 2ND Birthday With Two Important New Releases

Velobit, a provider of high-performance solid state drive caching software, is marking their second anniversary with two new releases that reflect an amazing two years of growth. One of the few prior drawbacks to utilization of Velobit software was lack of support for Windows-based operating systems. WINDOWS AND HYPER-V OS SUPPORT ADDED VeloBit is pleased to announce that Windows and …

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OWC Mercury AccelsiorM PCIe mSATA Controller Review

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With the popularity of mSATA SSDs being all the rage as of late, it was only a matter of time before a new PCIe adapter was introduced that might allow users to take advantage of that extra storage should they find an mSATA SSD at a great price. Our review today will look at the new OWC Mercury AccelsiorM mSATA …

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Western Digital Releases 5mm Hybrid HDD Targeting Ultrabook Placement

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Western Digital has announced the release of the world’s thinnest 2.5″ hybrid drive. Targeted at Ultrabooks, the drive will weigh in at a mere 5mm thick, undercutting even the thinnest 7mm drives currently on the market. The new products will deliver up to 500GB of storage space and will be conducive to systems with severely cramped quarters. The drives should be …

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QLogic Releases Mt. Rainier Server Side SSD Caching Achieving A New Summit For SAN Storage

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QLogic, known for their enterprise storage infrastructure solutions, has announced the release of their Mt. Rainier SSD caching technology. Mt. Rainier is a targeted solution meant to accelerate SAN performance while at the same time simplifying deployment of SSD caching in servers. Interestingly, the caching solution will not only be transparent to server side applications, but to the OS as …

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Silicon Power Velox V70 240GB SSD Review

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On our table today we have the Silicon Power Velox V70 SATA 3 SSD where SP is another to combine the power of the LSI SandForce SF-2281 Flash Storage Processor (FSP) with Intel synchronous MLC memory. If NAND alone makes great partners, the V70 is in good hands as we have seen the same type and capacity in the OCZ …

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Sandisk Releases ReadyCache SSD Providing Storage Performance and Capacity

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SanDisk, well known throughout the industry for their wide variety of storage products, has announced the release of their ReadyCache SSD caching solution. ReadyCache will include a 32GB SSD as well as Condusive Technologies’ ExpressCache, which is comparable to software that is being offered by the likes of NVELO. Based on what we already know about SSD caching, SanDisk’s new …

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Win a OCZ Vertex 4 512GB SSD At TSSDR!

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Sometimes I get a bit confused I guess.  As of Sunday, we started our Grand Birthday Mega SSD Giveaway Celebration and, to this point, the odds of winning our first SSD, a 512GB OCZ Vertex 4 are better than 1/150.  How do you go wrong with this? Has there even been a draw for a 512GB SSD prior?  We are …

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