BiTMICRO, California-based SSD storage company, has completed development of two new application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs. Their platform is the only current one which uses two customized ASIC controllers and it looks like this could be a trend-setting innovation. These circuits function as part flash channel expander and part SSD controller, allowing BiTMICRO to
SOS ServerSafe Cloud Backup for SMBs Announced
SOS Online Backup has announced the first low cost, all in one, enterprise cloud-based data protection service. The new service, ServerSave, offers cloud backup for Bare Metal, Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL servers, plus granulated recovery.
Intel Shows Knights Corner Processor [Supercomputing 2011]
Intel has stated that it will deliver the most efficient and programming-friendly platform for highly parallel applications. At a private briefing at SC11, Intel discussed the benefits of the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture in weather modeling, tomography, proteins folding and advanced materials simulation. The ahah moment occurred with they broke out a sample
Patriot Memory Launches Mac Series XT SSD
Patriot Memory has announced their new Mac Series XT SSDs and SODIMM lines, optimized for Mac computers. The Mac Series XT SSD includes a SandForce SF-2281 processor and SATA 6Gb/s interface to deliver 520 MB/s reads, 500 MB/s writes and 80,000 IOPS. If you’re asking why the Mac Series XT is different from Patriot’s other
Increasing Productivity and Lowering TCO When Switching To SSDs (IDF 2011)
At Intel Developer Forum 2011, Intel has been touting the advantages that consumers and businesses can have by switching over to SSDs. While consumers might be quick to look just at the performance improvements, businesses are looking at things ranging from the costs to upgrade to the savings from productivity boosts. As it turns out
Western Digital AV-GP 3TB Review
Western Digital already sells a wildly popular 3TB Caviar Green consumer hard drive. They’ve expanded their green drive offerings to introduce a version specifically for audio and video applications, including DVRs and video surveillance. Today we take a look at the new AV-GP 3TB and find how it’s different than the Caviar Green it shares
LaCie Intros New OS for Network Storage Devices
LaCie has announced its NAS OS 2.0, an update to its existing operating system for its network-attached storage (NAS) devices. LaCie cites improved usability, performance, RAID management, and backup. It additionally offers remote file access.
OCZ Launches Enterprise Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD
OCZ has launched their latest enterprise-class PCIe SSD, the Z-Drive R4. Packing up to eight SandForce SF-2282 processors, the Z-Drive R4 is able to channel upwards of 5,600MB/s and 1.2M IOPS when equipped with two OCZ SuperScale storage controllers. With a growing popularity in cloud-based storage solutions, OCZ is aiming to position the PCIe interface
Toshiba MQ01ABD 1TB 9.5mm Notebook Hard Drive Released
Toshiba is getting into the mainstream 1TB notebook hard drive game with the MQ01ABD which features two 500GB platters with 744GB/in areal density in a standard 9.5mm drive height.
Seagate Constellation.2 and Constellation ES.2 Hard Drive Review
Seagate’s Constellation enterprise hard drives come in 6Gbps SAS and SATA interfaces; we pit them against one another using the second-gen Constellation.2 2.5″ drive and fifth-gen Constellation ES.2 3.5″ drive.



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