OCZ has released its Synapse Cache Series 2.5” SSDs designed to bring SSD speed across large hard drives. The Synapse Cache SSDs use Dataplex cache software from NVELO to dynamically cache the most frequently requested files on the hard drive, delivering them much more quickly from the on-board NAND rather than the hard drive’s platters.

LaCie released its Little Big Disk Thunderbolt series to Apple retailers today, meaning that speedy Thunderbolt port on recent Macintoshes are finally starting to be used for something other than connecting monitors.  Available in 1TB and 2TB configurations, the aluminum enclosure with a glowing blue LED eye houses a pair of 2.5" drives striped as

Hitachi’s Global Storage Technologies has announced that its Ultrastar SSD400S series SSDs will begin shipping in a number of HP storage systems aimed at the enterprise and cloud datacenter. The 3.5-inch Fibre Channel SLC SSDs are rated at 390MB/s for reads and 240MB/s for writes when using a 4GB/s FC interface.

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

Many 2011 MacBook Pro users have been struggling with using the latest high-speed SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs since the hardware update many months ago. The issues largely affected the 17″ model, but owners of the 15″ and 13″ MacBook Pros also complained of “beachballing,” poor performance and even failure to recognize SATA 6Gb/s SSDs. Apple

Love the new MacBook Air that you just brought home from the Apple Store but annoyed that the stock SSD doesn’t run as fast as the hardware can support? OWC has some news for you. They’ve announced the release of the 6G Mercury Aura Pro Express, a replacement SSD for the 2011 MacBook Air that

Anobit announced its second-generation enterprise SSD’s today. The new drives use MLC instead of SLC NAND chips, but Anobit claims that with its MSP, or Memory Signal Processing, technology that they can achieve 50,000 erase/write cycles. The 2.5” 6Gb/s SATA 3 and SAS 2.0 drives have a 510MB/s read and write speed, and will be

Intel announced that Thunderbolt, their high speed I/O data port, will be coming to non-Apple computers at IDF 2011 today.  Thunderbolt, which is based off of Intel’s Light Peak, was demoed running off of their upcoming Haswell chipset, due in 2013. However, Acer and ASUS both have products planned for a 2012 launch supporting Thunderbolt.

During the press conference for the new Intel SSD 710, Intel gave us a quick glance at their new Cherryville and Hawley Creek consumer SSDs. The Intel SSD 520 or Cherryville will be the SATA 6.0Gb/s successor to the current SSD 510, but offering much faster sequential and random read and write speeds. The Hawley