Category Archives: Raid/Enterprise
LSI Announces DataBolt Technology to Accelerate Datacenter Performance
LSI Corporation is announcing its new DataBolt technology for bandwidth optimization in datacenter applications. This unique performance acceleration feature for LSI’s 12 GB/s SAS products is designed to allow users to take advantage of 12 GB/s speeds with their existing
Intel 910 PCIe SSD Review – Amazing Performance Results In Both 400GB and 800GB Configurations
Our detailed analysis of the Intel 910 Series PCI Express 800GB SSD marks the beginning of Intel’s push into the PCIe SSD enterprise storage market. If the difficulty experienced reviewing this SSD is any indication of it’s caliber, the world
Hitachi Announces SAS 12 Gbps SSD Capable of 4.8GB/s Performance
Hitachi Global Storage Technology, well known for their high performance storage solutions, has unveiled the very first SAS 12 Gbps SSD which is capable of a total available interface bandwidth of 4.8GB/s per drive. The SAS 12Gbps interface represents the
SMART Storage Systems Challenges Enterprise SSD TCO Models with CloudSpeed 500 Release
SMART Storage Systems has announced the release of their newest SSD aimed at the Enterprise market, the CloudSpeed 500. This SSD is positioned to provide a SSD with a higher write endurance, but a very low Total Cost of Ownership
Biwin Releases Single Chip e-MMC SSD As The Industry Embraces Undersized Offerings
Biwin, well known for their industrial flash storage products, has announced the release of their e-MMC SSD on a chip. Available in capacities ranging from 2 -64GB, the new device will be manufactured in a BGA 169 form factor and
SMART Storage Systems XceedStor 500S 240GB MLC Enterprise SSD Review
Our SSD analysis today will be on the SMART Storage Systems XCeedStor 500S 240GB MLC enterprise SSD and SMART hopes to cater to the exploding Light-Enterprise market with this new enterprise entry. Many users are now substituting client SSDs for
Fusion Io Releases ioFX PCIe SSD As Digital Media Drives The Industry Forward
Fusion IO, well known for their high performance, professional grade solid state drives and more recently, SSD caching solutions, has announced the release of their ioFX PCIe SSD. Part of their ioMemory platform, ioFX is intended to bring cost effective,
SMART Storage Systems XceedIOPS 2 200GB eMLC 6Gbps Enterprise SSD Review
The SMART Storage Systems XceedIOPS 2 eMLC SSD is the latest and greatest from the company with a long line of success. For SMART, who became privately owned last year, this segment of the market is ‘old hat’. With all
Toshiba Releases NPEngine As Streaming Looks Set To Strengthen SSD Sales
Toshiba Corporation has announced the release of their NPEngine SSD to IP solution. Optimized for the speedy transfer of video streams, the new product offers an unprecedented approach to providing high bandwidth video content across networks. NPEngine is capable of
MOSAID First to Achieve Single Channel Full Performance 16-Die NAND Flash Stack
MOSAID Technologies Inc. announces that it is sampling the industry’s first NAND Flash MCP (multi-chip package) with a 16-die NAND stack operating on a single high-performance channel. MOSAID’s 512Gb HLNAND™ (HyperLink NAND) MCP combines a stack of 16 standard 32Gb
Micron RealSSD P400e 6Gbps 200GB Enterprise SSD Review
Our SSD analysis today looks at the Micron RealSSD P400e SATA 3 enterprise SSD, a new entry with a new approach to integrating SSDs into the entry-level enterprise tier. The enterprise SSD market is segmenting into several layers that suit
LSI Releases Nytro PCIe Application Acceleration Architecture Family
LSI announced today the launching of the LSI Nytro Application Acceleration Architecture, an entire family of PCIe based devices and software. Currently there are a multitude of solutions available from many different vendors of enterprise-class Solid State Storage and PCIe
Raw Flash Vs SSDs in Enterprise Applications Offers a Choice of Component Or Complete Solution
In reading this article, you might think it runs along the lines of the still popular Hulk vs Superman Debate except in this case, it’s storage related and this storyline is Storage Mojo vs The SSD Guy. Self-professed ‘Storage Mojo’
Toshiba MK4001GRZB 400GB SAS 6Gb/s Enterprise SLC SSD Review
Our SSD review today will be on the Toshiba MK4001GRZB 400GB SAS 6Gb/s Enterprise SLC SSD and will be the first to undergo our new Enterprise Test Protocol. This SSD brings with it some of the best sustainable performance in
The SSD Review Solid State Storage (SSS) Enterprise Test Protocol
A casual reader of The SSD Review has probably grown accustomed to seeing the huge RAID numbers from any number of our RAID tests as well as the great results seen in our evaluations of consumer SSDs. We do have
