Some SSD buyers select a drive solely based on performance, some make their decision based on price and others buy for combinations of these and other factors. But almost all SSD buyers are confused by a single issue that could soon see a tremendous increase of clarity, "How long will my SSD last?"
SandForce announced it has closed $25 million in series D funding; PhotoFast introduced its LSI PCI-e SSD, which is available in up to 960GB capacities and has read speeds up to 1,400MB/s; lastly, Viking Modular Solutions announced its Enterprise-class Element SAS SSD line.
Kingston launched its DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 flash drive which has read speeds up to 80MB/s; LSI announced it is now shipping its 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip device with a dual-core PowerPC processor and specialized hardware acceleration engines; finally, Seagate announced its Momentus Self-Encrypting Drive has been FIPS 140-2 certified.
Super Talent has announced they are now shipping their USB 3.0 Express RAM Cache drive and standard USB 3.0 drives; SanDisk and NDS have combined technologies to produce inexpensive set-top boxes with DVR-like features
Forums member StamatisX has created the following how to guide and analysis of what appears to be a commonly reported problem – SSDs are not reaching their full performance potential in many notebooks and some desktops using the Intel Series 5 chipset. While not a definitive study on the issue, StamatisX does provide a detailed look into
Intel has updated their SSD management software. Version 2.0 features new tools including a System Configuration Tuner and Secure Erase function, which is handy and mitigates the need for a third party application.
QNAP has announced a year-end refresh of its Business Series Turbo NAS servers. The new models announced include the 2-drive TS-259 Pro+, the 4-drive TS-459 Pro+, the 5-drive TS-559 Pro+, and the 6-drive TS-659 Pro+ with up to 12TB of online storage (using 2TB hard drives).
Today’s news bits covers Mushkin’s new 40GB Callisto deluxe value drive featuring a SandForce SF-1200 controller, Hitachi’s G-Technology brand introducing Hitachi Ultrastar enterprise-class hard drives into its G-SPEED RAID storage devices, and finally Icy Dock’s Quad Bay Mobile Rack, which accommodates up to 4x 2.5-inch SAS or SATA drives in a single 5.25″ device bay.
Toshiba has announced it has started mass production of 24nm NAND flash memory, hot on the heels of Intel’s recent 25nm announcement.
Transcend has announced updates to its 2.5-inch line of Solid State Drives (SSDs). They are now available with peak transfer rates up to 260MB/s and capacities up to 512GB.
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