Monster Digital has announced their first foray into the SSD space with the Le Mans SSD family. The Le Mans SSDs will feature SandForce SF-2200 processors, SATA 6 Gb/s interface and Toshiba synchronous MLC NAND to deliver read speeds of 550 MB/s and writes of 515 MB/s writes. The drives are squarely targeted at enthusiasts,
Pogoplug Users Get 50% off New Series 4 Model
Pogoplug has announced its newest product, the Pogoplug Series 4. The new model allows users to host their own content from their home or office and to add as much storage as they need. The main difference between this and the older Pogoplug Mobile though, is the much faster connection speeds with USB 3.0 now
ADATA Announces Budget S396 SSD Line
ADATA’s new S396 SSD is aimed at budget-conscious consumers. It’s available in a 30GB size and backed by a three-year warranty. It features a SATA 3.0Gbps interface; ADATA says it has up to 44,000 IOPS of 4KB random write and up to 250MB/s and 280MB/s sequential read and write, respectively.
Intel SSD 710 Enterprise Review
The SSD 710 is Intel’s first enterprise-class SSD in quite some time – it’s been three years since they introduced their last one, the X-25E. Packed with more cost effective eMLC instead of SLC NAND, the SSD 710 gives enterprise buyers a mix of endurance and increased capacity at a more aggressive price point than
OCZ Petrol SSD Announced
OCZ Technology has released their second branded SSD based on the Indilinx Everest platform. The OCZ Petrol SSD family features a SATA 6Gb/s interface and read speeds of up to 400 MB/s. The consumer appeal to the Petrol however is price, OCZ is offering the drives in 64GB to 512GB capacities with suggested pricing of
LSI MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Review
LSI’s line of MegaRAID RAID cards have tremendous market share for good reason, they’re looked at by many as the de facto standard thanks to solid hardware and a fantastic software stack. Of course LSI’s MegaRAID cards are capable of more than just tying together drives, their CacheCade Pro 2.0 add-on leverages the speed benefit
OCZ Launches Talos 2 Enterprise SSDs
OCZ Technology (Nasdaq:OCZ) has released their second generation Talos enterprise SSD. The Talos 2 is a dual-ported SAS 6G drive that increases capacity to 1TB in a 2.5″ form factor. The first generation Talos was launched in May of this year and only available in a 3.5″ form factor. Talos 2 leverages OCZ’s Virtualized Controller
Voxel Picks OCZ Deneva 2 SSDs For Dedicated Servers
Voxel, a hosting company based in New York, announced they selected OCZ as an SSD vendor for drives used in their voxSERVER dedicated server products. As an optional upgrade these SSDs aren’t seen in every server, but instead used in configurations where the customer needs very fast I/O speeds in setups such as a database
Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 USB Drives Announced
Kingston Digital has launched the DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 USB drive, their fastest USB drive to date. Not only will it store a bunch of data with a top capacity of 256GB, but it also cranks out read speeds of 225 MB/s and writes of 135 MB/s, certainly not something we’re used to seeing out of
Plextor PX-M3S SSD Released With True Speed
Plextor announced a new line of solid state drives, the M3S. The M3S weighs in at 2.5” with a bracket to adapt to 3.5”, comes with a 5 year warranty, and comes in a variety of capacities: 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB. The new line also boasts sequential read/write speeds of up to 525MB/s read and




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