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One of our favorite stops at CES consistently seems to be the Other World Computing Booth where Larry O’Connor and Team always seem to have something new on the go in the world of SSDs. This year was no different. First off, the OWC team has always been on the cutting edge of Apple SSD updates, regardless of Apple’s frequent …

An interesting find at CES was a new SSD created by Xi3 for use in their modular computer systems, these systems being just over 4″ x 3″ 3″ in size. Their new SSD contains the designation of mSATAmax and, considering that it will be available in capacities up to 1TB and have performance of 1GB/s read and write, this just …

Plextor set out to confirm their commitment to quality and innovation at CES Las Vegas 2013 this week, and that they did. Unlike other manufacturers who may select controllers and memory dependent on market pricing and availability, Plextor made it clear that their commitment was to Marvell for SSD controllers and Toshiba for their premium Toggle Mode NAND flash memory. …

Crucial Micron is making serious SSD strides forward this morning with the much anticipated announcement of their new M500 Series SSD family.  The good news isn’t limited to the typical consumer notebook form factor SSD, however, as mSATA and a new M.2 form factor are also included with this release.  Add to that the news that the M500 will also …

Mushkin announced their new ProSpec SSD family at CES Las Vegas 2013 this week.  The ProSpec line is equipped with the LSI SandForce SF-2582 processor and eMLC NAND flash memory which improves the lifespan of the memory significantly.  The SSD will be available in capacities from 100 to 400GB and sustained performance is detailed as 560MB/s with  random read/write performance …

The experience that CES and surrounding events truly is cannot always be explained but there is a great deal of work done while attending these events.  Such can be seen with Essentially Tech Media’s Kingpin (or rather Queenpin) Karen Tokar at her best networking with HP while at ShowStoppers Las Vegas this week. Kingston was also at the event showing …

Having been involved in the storage industry for several years, we can tell you first hand that, traditionally, storage companies have typically been very conservative when it comes to marketing strategies. This all changed at Storage Visions 2013 where SMART, not only introduced the new high endurance Cloudspeed 1000 line but also, introduced their new NAND Band to the world …

The Samsung SSD Angels made their first appearance at CES Las Vegas 2013 and we couldn’t resist the opportunity to put them to the test.  For those new to the Samsung SSD Angels history, they have traveled the world ‘showing the Samsung love’ by upgrading sometimes unsuspecting people to the world of SSDs. Not wanting to pass up a great …

Our visit with OCZ at the Venetian in Las Vegas this morning resulted in a close up of their new flagship Vector PCIe consumer SSD that is expected to be released sometime in the next quarter of this year.  The Vector PCIE SSD is driven by two Indilinx Barefoot 3 controllers and is available in 240, 480 and 960GB capacities …

Up first at Storage Visions 2013 in Las Vegas, we spoke with SanDisk who are displaying enterprise, client and retail upgrade and new release solid state drives. On the retail side of things, SanDisk today announced release of their new UltraPlus SSD which the targets mainstream consumer just starting to examine the move to SSDs.  Of interested in client though, …

Marvell Technology (US-based) has reportedly invested in Memoright (Taiwan-based) to enhance its SSD offerings to include firmware, this according to a Digitimes story.  This alliance w0uld allow Marvell to couple its SSD controllers with Memoright’s firmware technology, and let Marvell offer a more complete SSD solution to its customers and clients. The SSD controller IC market is currently dominated by …

Marvell has announced availability of the Marvell DragonFlyTM NVDRIVE – the world’s first NVRAM-powered PCIe SSD cache solution.  This turnkey enterprise-class caching solution with built-in SSD modules extends the company’s award-winning DragonFly NVCACHE and NVRAM adapter product offerings that were released last August.  The DragonFly NVDRIVE is targeted to large-scale Internet and cloud computing datacenters.  It will dramatically scale both …

I live for days like today.  In less than 24 hours, I will be sitting back on some white sand Honduran beach in front of my villa yet my excitement is still right here in the SSD storage world; and so it should be.  As it stands, we just ripped open a brand new Acer S7 because we had to …

For many models of solid state drives, the last two years has been turbulant with certain models dropping from $3/GB to less than $1/GB.  A quick look at e-tailers, even today, shows quality brand name SSDs as low as the 80-90 cents/GB range.  The Crucial M4 256GB SSD has even been seen on sale as low as 67 cents/GB!  According …

Kingston has released an upgrade to one of our favorite toys lately which should interest a number of readers.  As you may remember, we reviewed the Kingston Wi-Drive in a 64GB capacity a while back and it deservedly received out Innovations Award.  Quite frankly, I never expected the Wi-Drive to be so useful and it has since become one of …