At Flash Media Summit 2011, SandForce was the first to show off 24nm Toshiba MLC NAND working with their existing SATA 6.0Gb/s SF-2000 processor. As flash manufacturers continue to shrink existing NAND sizes, having compatibility means more options and ultimately lower prices for buyers.
Seagate has announced that they have shipped one million Momentus XT hybrid hard drives. The 2.5" hybrids offer 7200RPM platters with 500GB of capacity, boosted by 4GB of solid state SLC NAND used for caching frequent activities, making the XT more responsive than traditional hard drives.
Today Hitachi released their new Ultrastar SSD400M, offering SLC-level write endurance using 25nm MLC Intel NAND. With the write endurance levels topping 7.3PB lifetime, or roughly 10 full drive fills per day on the 400GB model for five years, Hitachi is able to bring enterprise-level performance in at a much lower cost. Offered in 200GB
Seagate has added another offering to their line of GoFlex external hard drives, the GoFlex Turbo. The Turbo is highlighted by SafetyNet data recovery services. While many external drives have some sort of recovery service available, the Turbo includes two years of the service as part of the purchase price. Inside, Seagate is using a
Asus has released details around their new K93 series of notebooks. Sure, they have the latest Intel processors and other great highlights like IceCool technology to keep the motherboard cool and an award-winning chicklet keyboard. But when it comes to storage the Asus K93SV really gets creative, sporting an option for dual drives with a
Are you looking for a relatively inexpensive way to upgrade your slightly outdated Windows or Linux PC so you can use the latest generation of USB peripherals? HighPoint Technologies is hoping you are because they’ve begun shipping a 4-port USB 3.0 adapter they’re calling the RocketU 1144A. With a list price of $89.00, the PCIe
Nimbus Data Systems has announced eBay has implemented more than 100TB of its S-class flash memory to power its VMWare server infrastructure.
OCZ has launched their latest enterprise-class PCIe SSD, the Z-Drive R4. Packing up to eight SandForce SF-2282 processors, the Z-Drive R4 is able to channel upwards of 5,600MB/s and 1.2M IOPS when equipped with two OCZ SuperScale storage controllers. With a growing popularity in cloud-based storage solutions, OCZ is aiming to position the PCIe interface
Toshiba is getting into the mainstream 1TB notebook hard drive game with the MQ01ABD which features two 500GB platters with 744GB/in areal density in a standard 9.5mm drive height.
OWC has quietly rolled out a significant improvement to their Mercury Extreme Pro 6G family of SSDs. Previously OWC was using 25nm IMFT synchronous NAND in these drives. Now the entire line has migrated to 32nm Toshiba toggle NAND, the same high quality and high performance NAND found in the OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS
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