For those with an SSD from Intel, it might be of interest to know that Intel has released a new version of its helper app SSD Toolbox, which has now reached version 3.0. It’s a versatile little tool that can be used to maintain and diagnose Intel’s own storage devices. The news in the Intel [...]
A-DATA has also jumped on the SandForce bandwagon and recently launched the S511–yet another drive for the crowded SSD market based on the SF-2281 controller. Now it is now expanding the lineup with an mSATA device called XM13. What is mSATA, you ask? It’s like SATA, but smaller. These small SSDs with a Z68 mSATA [...]
OCZ continues to sell SSDs like hotcakes and continues to invest in new products, usually with the SandForce processor as the weapon of choice, but as some of you might rember, OCZ acquired Indilinx a while back, and here is the first result of the acquisition Whereas the extremely popular Vertex 3, Agiliy 3 and [...]
Fusion-io has just released the first upgrade of its NAND-based flash disk series ioDrive. The sequels, logically named ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo, offer double storage capacity, bandwidth and circuit density compared to their predecessors. They are also designed for better endurance and tolerance to hardware failure. The new SSD series has been described by the [...]
Intel stayed with 34nm NAND in the 510 series SSDs, which made the drives slightly more expensive than the competition but retained the durability of the “old” production process. In spite of the rather hefty price tag, the 510 drives have been relatively well received by consumers. Now the sequel is in the pipeline, appropriately [...]
Intel has just introduced another batch of SSDs, this time new 710 series, which is targeted at servers and workstations with the extra durable Multi-Level Cell flash memory type MLC-HET. Intel’s 710-series may be better known as “Lyndonville”–a more durable series of solid state drive built for heavy-duty work in servers, workstations and other mission-critical [...]
Troublesome SSDs are unfortunately not an unusual phenomenon. During the summer there have been frequent reports of problems with drives based on SandForce’s 2000-series controllers. Also, the pundits that have previously proclaimed that Intel is the safe choice have now been proven wrong. Users have reported that units in Intel’s 320 series have suddenly shrunk [...]
OCZ has launched its latest PCIe solid state drives for the enthusiast consumer market, the RevoDrive 3 and RevoDrive 3 X2, along with promises of exceptional performance. The new lineup is based on the latest SandForce controllers (SandForce-2281)–two or four of them working in an internal RAID 0 configuration to boost performance. TRIM support is [...]
Intel has already launched several new SSDs in 2011 and more are on the way. The German site ComputerBase.de has managed to dig up some specifics on the new enterprise solutions in the Intel 710 and 720 series, which are SATA and PCI-Express products respectively. Intel’s 710-series–also known as Lyndonville–will build on 25 nm HET [...]
For quite some time, OCZ had the advantage of being the only manufacturer with SSDs powered by the latest SD-2200 series controllers from SandForce. Now the competition is (finally) starting to breathe down their necks with SandForce-based drives of their own–something that will hopefully lead to more healthy competition on the market and prices adjusted [...]
