After completing a review, in most cases we hang onto the gear that was sent to us (some comes to us on loan). Some of these product get put through long-term testing, some we warehouse in anticipation of testing updated firmware in the future, and some we keep on hand for occasions like this. In
The high cost of flash has been a major obstacle for the mainstream implementation of SSDs in the market place. According to Kingston Technology, however, the use of SSDs are expected to expand significantly with falling NAND flash prices. The average price for 1GB of NAND flash memory is predicted to drop to $1 USD
The $1/GB price point for SSDs is held by many as the tipping point for SSD adoption on a mass scale. Well for a few days anyway, Intel is offering $80 rebates on their 60GB and 120GB 320 SSDs, taking prices to $80 for the 80GB capacity and $110 for the 120GB capacity. Intel is
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
Samsung is offering a great deal on the 64GB capacity of their 830 SSD. From Black Friday through Cyber Monday the 64GB SSD can be had for $99.99 and will include a key to download a copy of Batman:Arkham City.
Western Digital’s long-awaited approval of their Hitachi purchase has cleared one more regulatory hurdle, gaining conditional approval from the EU. WD has announced in their quarterly call about a month ago that they expected approval from the EU by the end of November. While other approvals need to be obtained still, the EU approval was
Pogoplug, a cloud-storage service for mobile phones, is teaming up with Drobo to double the amount of free storage when you sign up–this week only. Initially capped at 5 GB, when a customer registers during the week of November 21st to the 27th, they will have 10 GB “free for life.”
Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) has disclosed that on November 18, 2011, an arbitration award of $525 million was rendered against the company, which they intend to challenge vigorously. The confidential arbitration took place in Minnesota, and while details are very thin, WD did reveal that the award involves claims brought by Seagate against WD and
Quantum Corp. announced three new products aimed at enterprise data management. Included in the new releases are the DXi8500, a deduplication device, the Scalar i6000, a dual robotic tape library, and version 4.1 of Quantum Vision management software. The DXi8500 is touted as an extremely affordable solution. Price is set around $300,000 and includes data
Exciting news for anyone currently using their new SSD in RAID0! Intel will finally be bringing TRIM support. Currently the only way for TRIM to function on an SSD is to operate in AHCI mode. This means that drives in high-performance arrays such as RAID0 lose the NAND cleaning benefits which could decrease speeds as
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