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
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.
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