SSD prices continue to fall as Other World Computing releases a 30GB SSD for $67.99. The OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 3G is a SATA built around a SandForce SF-2100 controller and promises sustained data rates of 263MB/s read and 258MB/s write. Aimed at budget shoppers who might not need the latest SATA 6Gb/s performance, the

The OCZ Z-Drive R4 was announced in early August as an update to OCZ's line of enterprise PCIe SSDs. The Z-Drive R4 works the same way as prior Z-Drives – there are up to eight SandForce SF-2282 powered SSDs with SLC or MLC NAND on a PCI Express board that are connected via hardware and software to

At IDF last week Intel launched their new enterprise line of SSDs, the 710 Series. The SSD 710 is Intel’s first enterprise SSD in quite a while, the previous generation X25-E has been in the market for nearly three years. Over that span of time, a lot has changed in the enterprise space and those

At IDF LSI was teasing their next generation WarpDrive technology in an effort to stake claim to the top spot in the increasingly competitive enterprise PCIe SSD space. The original WarpDrive SLP-300 was the first enterprise PCIe SSD to hit our test bench, but it’s since been followed by the Fusion-io ioDrive Duo and OCZ has recently announced the

Fusion-io has built an entire brand around speed – their ioDrive PCIe SSDs have long been touted as some of the fasted storage devices on the market. If your enterprise needs even more performance in a single PCIe slot, then there's the Fusion-io ioDrive Duo, which basically doubles down on performance. We put a 640GB

Tokyo-based parts company Ask Corporation has announced it will release a pair of mSATA SSDs made by OCZ in mid-September. Measuring a mere 30mm wide and 50mm deep, the Nocti and Strata series are both built around 20nm MLC NAND flash memory. Both series support the current mSATA maximum bandwidth of 3 GB/s.

Synology America Corp. has announced that the beta program for its DiskStation Manager 3.2 software has ended. The program, compatible with the company’s DiskStation NAS units from the x08 series and onward, can now be downloaded as a release version. The company reports that more than 60,000 copies were downloaded during the beta program which

Crucial has just issued a new firmware update for all Crucial m4 SSDs. This new firmware, version 0009 (our original review model featured 0001) increases sequential read speeds by up to 20%, improves write latency for better handling of heavy write workloads and offers compatibility with the latest chipsets.

Silicon Valley startup Pure Storage has taken itself out of stealth mode by introducing its first product, an all-flash memory based enterprise-level storage array. The company, founded by veterans of Veritas and Yahoo!, plans to show its flagship product it calls the FlashArray for the first time publicly next week at VMWorld in Las Vegas.