Recently we’ve pored over our How To Upgrade SSD Firmware page, adding several guides and updating a few others in order to give consumers a grasp on how to complete a process which can vary quite drastically from brand to brand. Some SSD manufacturers deliver their firmware updates in a client that downloads and updates your
SanDisk does its due diligence to ensure the products its releasing are free from errors and performance issues at the outset of launch, however, as with any other SSD manufacturer, from time to time SanDisk needs to release a firmware update anyhow. These fix errors that might be found, and sometimes they even deliver an impact
Intel consistently releases firmware updates to their SSDs just as others in the space to correct issues that may arise with operation, and perhaps more importantly for consumers, to occasionally deliver even greater performance and reliability to their SSDs. Intel has an advantage in the space by engineering some of their components in-house such as
Samsung is announcing that is has begun mass production of its new 3D V-NAND which promises to bring anywhere from two to ten times the reliability and two times the write performance compared to sub-20nm floating gate NAND flash memory. To accomplish that end, Samsung implemented a new technology that vertically stacks the planar cell
PernixData FVP, the first flash hypervisor for virtual data centers is being announced for general release beginning August 6th. By virtualizing server side flash into a clustered acceleration tier, the new technology enables a fast, cost-efficient way to scale-out storage performance, independent of storage capacity. Read and write performance is said to be brought to
The LenovoEMC px12-450r is designed primarily for the SMB though it could easily fit the bill as a network storage workhorse for many organizations with specs including a quad-core Intel Xeon processor, redundant hot-swappable power supply, link aggregation across four gigabit Ethernet interfaces and an optional dual-interface 10GbE NIC expansion card. The px12-450r marries EMC
STEC is announcing the immediate availability of the first Micro SAS SSD that is shipping as part of the expanded sTec s800 family of SAS drives. The new 1.8" SFF (small-form-factor) Micro SAS SSDs are available through sTec and its distributors in 200GB and 400GB capacities. These drives are engineered for implementation in blade servers
Winning the Best of Interop award for the Data Center and Storage area, the ZD-XL SQL Accelerator is a tightly integrated hardware and software solution that provides Microsoft SQL Server acceleration in a transparent fashion. SQL Server testing of OLAP and OLTP loads has resulted in performance gains of up to 25x! This is achieved
Seagate is now shipping its new Enterprise Turbo Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD), first in its class and billed at up to three times the random performance of current 15K RPM enterprise hard drives. Available in capacities up to 600GB, the Enterprise Turbo marks a new balance between capacity and performance that promises SSD-like speeds
LaCie is announcing an update of its NAS OS 3 to v3.1 that powers the LaCie 5big NAS Pro and 2big NAS storage solutions. Amongst other professional feature enhancements, the most significant improvements enhance hybrid cloud capabilities and deliver a 25% increase in RAID 5 write speeds. The RAID 5 write speeds have been increased
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