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
At Intel Developer Forum 2011 today, Intel released their new HET MLC-based enterprise-grade SSD 710. Available in capacities ranging from 100 to 300GB, this drive offers speeds up to 270MB/s read and 210MB/s write with 30-times the endurance of consumer SSDs. With write endurance up to 1.5PB depending on over-provisioning, this drive is sure to
At Intel Developer Forum 2011, Intel has been touting the advantages that consumers and businesses can have by switching over to SSDs. While consumers might be quick to look just at the performance improvements, businesses are looking at things ranging from the costs to upgrade to the savings from productivity boosts. As it turns out
SanDisk made a splash today at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) where we just happen to be. The company is announcing that it’s teaming with Intel and others to develop and implement a new low-powered SATA-IO standard for SSDs. Called SATA DEVSLP, the initiative aims to reduce the power consumption of high-speed SSDs to as
QNAP has announced two new 2U, 8-drive rackmount Turbo NAS models supporting up to 24TB of storage. They are available with a dual-core Intel Core i3 processor or a quad-core Intel Xeon and 2GB – 4GB of ECC RAM.
In late July OCZ announced they were shipping their first Indilinx-based SSD design, code named Everest, to OEMs. LG is now offering a slim 128GB Everest SSD in their LG Xnote P220 to deliver great operational performance and "fast boot technology," which enables genuine instant on functionality for LG’s notebooks.
Kingston has released the SSDNow KC100, a SandForce equipped SATA 6Gb/s SSD geared toward client systems in the enterprise. The KC100, which Kingston calls a "business-equipped" SSD, offers a five year warranty, which may offer more peace of mind to IT departments than the performance specs, which include read speeds up to 555 MB/s and
Western Digital has released new mobile apps for accessing personal content on the go – WD 2go and WD 2go Pro. The apps are available from both Apple’s App Store and the Android Market and interface with WD’s My Book Live external hard drive. Content on the drive may also be accessed through the browser through WD2go.com.
Corsair has released USB 3.0 versions of their Flash Voyager GT, Flash Voyager, and Flash Survivor USB flash drives. The updates are highlighted by the flagship Voyager GT which has a rugged all-rubber housing, comes in 32GB and 64GB capacities and offers read speeds of 135 MB/sec and writes of 83 MB/sec.
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.
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