There’s no denying that SSDs are blazing fast and an all-around pleasure to have in your system, but for many folks, being limited to 128GB or 256GB just isn’t going to cut it. Enter Crucial: today, the memory maker announced the “Adrenaline Solid State Cache Solution,” which hopes to solve that problem (as the name implies)[......]
One thing Intel has never been very good at is keeping its roadmaps under lock and key. Perhaps that's by design, or perhaps not. Either way, yet another roadmap belonging to the Santa Clara chip maker has been leaked to the Web, this latest one detailing the company's plans in the SSD space for the rest of 2011 and on through next year. [......]
OCZ this week unveiled its Synapse Cache Series 2.5-inch solid state drive family. These aren't like most other SSDs in that they're not meant to stand on their own two feet[......]
Thermaltake sent us a collection of photos and information about its upcoming Overseer RX-I chassis, a computer case that could pass as an evil twin to Cooler Master's HAF line. It has the same aggressive overall styling, but a more gnarly design that we predict will be fall under the love-it-or-hate-it category. [......]
We didn't come up with that question out of the blue, and we only started wondering about the logistics of such a move after hearing rumors that Intel and SandForce are fast becoming pals. According to news and rumor site Fudzilla, Intel is at the very least seriously considering outfitting some of its high-end solid state drives with SandForce controllers, which would be just another notch -- albeit a very big on -- on SandForce's belt[......]
Kingston Technology has ported its SSDNow solid state drive line to the business side with the launch of its KC100, the company's first SATA III (6Gbps) business-equipped SSD. A SandForce controller directs the action and is largely responsible the KC100's high read and write speeds, but there's more to this drive series than raw performance[......]
Corsair’s blazing fast Force Series GT line of solid state hard drives is hard to beat in terms of pure speed, but up until now, only relatively puny 90GB and 120GB versions were available on the market. Rather than go home, Corsair decided to go big. Today, the company introduced a pair of brand-spankin’-new entries to the Force Series GT lineup; beefy 180GB and 240GB models. [......]
A company called Pure Storage raised an additional $30 million in its third round of funding led by Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures, with Samsung sneaking in as part of a broader strategic partnership, the company announced today. The millions in funding come as Pure Storage enters the limelight with its flagship product , the FlashArray FA-300 Series all-flash enterprise array. [......]
Do you go for oodles of affordable storage in your next PC build with a mechanical hard drive, or raid your son's piggy bank and splurge on an ultra-fast solid state drive? [......]
With its desktop DDR DRAM business now dead and buried, OCZ is making good use of its additional R&D resources by cranking out solid state drives at a breakneck pace, and the company's newly announced Z-Drive Revision 4 (R4) PCI Express storage solutions offer breakneck speeds for the enterprise. [......]
Silicon Power today announced the launch of its first SATA 6Gb/s solid state drive line, the Velox Series V30. The V30 is a performance upgrade over the company's V20 line and comes armed with a SandForce controller chip. Built around the 2.5-inch form factor, Silicon Power tosses in a 3.5-inch adapter bracket so enthusiasts looking for high-speed storage won't have any trouble stuffing the V30 into their current chassis[......]
Corsair tells us its begun shipping its new Force Series GT solid state drives to its network of authorized distributors and retailers worldwide, and that you should be able to order the drives in July. For those of you shopping a high-speed SSD, you can add the Force Series GT line to your list of potential candidates. [......]
TRIM Support Enabler , a tool for enabling TRIM support on non-Apple manufactured Solid State Drives, has been updated to version 1.2. [......]
Last month, Intel increased the warranty period on solid-state drives in its SSD 320 range from the original three years to five years, making them the first consumer SSDs to have such a long warranty period. Now, Woodstock, Illinois-based Other World Computing (OWC) has taken a leaf out of Intel’s book and extended the warranty on its Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD line to five years. According to OWC, this move has made it “the industry’s first SandForce processor-based 6Gb/s SATA Revision 3.0 SSD offering an enterprise-class level 5 year warranty.”[......]
Having a Maximum PC mindset might not always mesh with what's left in your bank account at the end of the month, and so sacrifices have to be made. Do you raid the kids' piggy banks to fund that swank solid state drive upgrade, or try and get by with a mechanical hard drive that offers a fraction of the performance but tons more space per dollar? Thanks to Gigabyte, the latter option looks a little more attractive when paired with its new Z68XP-UD3-iSSD motherboard than it otherwise would be. [......]
