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Indilinx and Sand Force to get SATA 6Gbps in Q4

by: admin May 3, 2010

Both Indilinx and Sand Force are extremely powerful SSD controllers, and the only thing holding them back right now is the need for more bandwidth. The SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, which effectively caps the bandwidth at around 280MB/s, this is currently the barrier for performance improvements.
Unfortunately this is not scheduled to appear until the end [...]

Crucial RealSSD C300: Fastest SSD Yet?

by: admin April 10, 2010

As of August 2010, the Crucial SSD C300 series Solid State Drives is still one of the fastest consumer drives that money can buy in terms of read speed – at least if you can tap into its SATA 3.0, 6Gbps support. They’re definitely not cheap, but considering the performance gain many power users will [...]