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 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’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 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, 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 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 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

Cray Inc. has announced the Cray Sonexion 1300 system–an integrated file system, software and storage product giving customers a complete and scalable Lustre file system solution that is easy to install and maintain. The Cray Sonexion is designed specifically for a wide range of HPC workloads, features data rates of more than a terabyte-per-second, and

Top500 has announced that Japan’s “K Computer” is still number one when it comes to the world’s supercomputers. The K is installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, and runs at a stupefying 10.51 Petaflops/second on the Linpack test; that’s 10 quadrillion calculations per second. It stole the number one