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Hitachi Global Storage Technology, well known for their high performance storage solutions, has unveiled the very first SAS 12 Gbps SSD which is capable of a total available interface bandwidth of 4.8GB/s per drive. The SAS 12Gbps interface represents the highest performance interconnect seen on SSDs thus far, aside from PCIe of course. The new drives will be on display …

It has been a long time coming but seeing SSDs break that $1/GB barrier is becoming pretty common these days. In fact, yesterday, Amazon sold out of the M4 128GB SATA 3 SSD at $128.99 so what did they do?  They dropped the price to $124.99 and increased availability significantly. If you were ever on the fence with respect to …

When it comes to SSDs, we all know that pricing is, in many cases, the pivotal factor that helps determine whether or not consumers will even keep a given product on their purchasing compass. Certainly, this has been a major source of discord in the industry, especially among those that offer LSI SandForce based products. This is understandable, as cost is, …

NOTE: The full review is now up, which superseeds this article: Intel 910 PCIe SSD Review “ Amazing Performance Results In Both 400GB and 800GB Configurations The long awaited Intel 910 PCIe SSD is finally in our hands and we thought we might offer a quick glimpse before our full report next week. To add to that glimpse, we thought …

It wasn’t so long ago that we broke news of the Intel/SandForce partnership and everyone told us we were nuts.  Once again, we are here to publish another SSD first and Intel seems to be front and center once again. Our SSD analysis today will examine the Intel Series 330 SATA 3 SSD, the value priced little brother of the …

This report covers the TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) Galatea line of ultra-rugged SLC SSDs. Adhering to the MIL-STD-810 military specifications governing a multitude of ultra-ruggedized requirements, this SSD is designed for ultimate reliability in the harshest of environments. Designed and tested with the most hostile environments imaginable in mind, these SSDs are surely amongst the toughest storage mediums available. INTRODUCTION This …

If you haven’t heard of SSD caching as of yet, get ready for a technology that will definitely catch your eye.  SSD caching is a very simple computer upgrade that will see your system run like a race horse without any technical ‘know how’ or need to reformat whatsoever. Follow along as we work our way through an analysis of …

Apacer, well known for their sizeable selection of memory products, has unveiled their PHFD hard drive caching solution. Made available as a standard PCIe x1 add-in card, the new product will provide a separate 6Gbps SATA port, allowing users to utilize the HDD of their choice. Initially, Apacer’s solution will only offer a cache size of 32GB, though this doesn’t …

Biwin, well known for their industrial flash storage products, has announced the release of their e-MMC SSD on a chip. Available in capacities ranging from 2 -64GB, the new device will be manufactured in a BGA 169 form factor and mounted in an industry standard MMC package. The drive will integrate both flash memory and controller into a single ASIC, cementing …

Our SSD analysis today will be on the SMART Storage Systems XCeedStor 500S 240GB MLC enterprise SSD and SMART hopes to cater to the exploding Light-Enterprise market with this new enterprise entry. Many users are now substituting client SSDs for more price-conscious approaches to boosting read-centric environment performance which can expose users to data integrity and security concerns, making the …