When we first reviewed the OCZ Z-Drive R4 last year, the PCIe SSD amazed us with it’s class leading performance numbers, as well as its ridiculous IOPS/$ performance. It was so fast in fact, that it made us re-develop our testing platform to better accommodate the burgeoning PCIe SSD space, dedicating a testing platform specifically
Hitachi has announced that EMC is now shipping the Ultrastar SSD400S SSDs in its Flash-based VNX Unified Storage systems. The EMC VNX solution is designed for mission critical Microsoft and Oracle database environments. The 34m SLC-based 2.5" SAS interface Hitachi Ultrastar SSD400S was selected for its reliability and endurance for these heavy write intense workloads.
Drobo has released a pair of updates today; first Drobo has qualified the OCZ Talos SAS SSD for tiering use in their B1200i iSCSI SAN solution, second Drobo has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to let Drobo users back up their data to the cloud. The OCZ deal marks the first time Drobo
Synology released their latest version of their DiskStation Manager, version 4.0. With this latest version comes a great integration with cloud-storage for mobile, home, and work computers and a stronger push towards easy setup and control. DSM 4.0 offers a new user interface, system information available at your fingertips, and even app support including free
Western Digital has announced the family of S25 SAS hard drives, their third generation. The S25 hard drives feature a 2.5" form factor, with 10,000 RPM spin speed, 32MB cache and SAS 6 Gb/s interface and delivers 204 MB/s transfer rates. The S25 comes in 300GB, 450GB and 600GB capacities, along with a new 900GB
The Micron RealSSD P400e is designed for the entry-level enterprise SSD space, an increasingly popular segment that is largely read centric, making it the perfect playground for low cost MLC SSDs. The P400e features Micron’s home grown 25nm MLC NAND, SATA 6 Gb/s interface and Marvell controller. Micron uses the popular 2.5" form factor, but
STEC has released the MACH16, a slim form factor SATA SSD that offers enterprise grade technology for embedded applications. STEC’s MACH16 is designed to be a drop-in replacement for 2.5" hard drives and even SSDs that offers 22-pin SATA support with high data integrity, endurance and reliability thanks to STEC’s own enterprise SSD controller and
SMART Storage Systems (formerly SMART Modular) offers a robust lineup of enterprise SSD products. The XceedIOPS2 is their SandForce SF-2500-based solution that’s geared toward blended enterprise use and backed up with the endurance of Toshiba eMLC NAND. Equipped with a SATA 6Gb/s interface, the XceedIOPS2 delivers up to 520MB/s sequential reads and 500 MB/s writes,
Hitachi has announced their second-generation 7mm 7200RPM 2.5-inch hard drive, the Travelstar Z7K500, aimed at the UltraBook and thin computing categories. Offering single-platter capacities up to 500GB, the drive includes a SATA 6Gb/s interface that can push transfer speeds up to 171MB/s. Hitachi sees the emerging UltraBook market to be the greatest potential for this
OCZ has announced the OCZ-SANRAD VXL enterprise storage accelerator, the first co-branded output of the SANRAD acquisition which occurred earlier this year. OCZ-SANRAD VXL is available now and is designed to deliver flash caching and acceleration with support for VMware ESX, HyperV and Citrix Xen. VXL allows either the Z-Drive R4 or Z-Drive R4 CloudServ
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