ATP Electronics, well known for their high performance memory products, has released their new Velocity SI Pro industrial grade SSD. The newly released LSI Sandforce based drives will offer up to 500MB/s read and write speeds, not to mention 60,000 4k random read IOPS. The SI Pro will utilize SLC flash and has gone through extra validation for things like shock …
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To say that Intel went all out with their allocation of Series 520 SSDs for review is quite the understatement. In fact, we have NEVER seen this many reviews hit the net simultaneously. The Series 520 is, without a doubt, the biggest and baddest SSD to hit the streets and it’s release has probably been the most anticipated event in …
Read More » Well I guess the secrets out by now. Intel has this morning officially released it’s new enthusiast level Intel 520 Series SSD and it is none other than ‘SandForce Driven’. What’s that, you say!? Our report today is a complete analysis of the Intel 520 240GB 6Gbps SSD and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that this is only …
Read More » Runcore, well known for their myriad SSD products, has announced the release of their new Pro-V Max series of drives. The products will be based on the SF-2281 and offer Read/Write speeds of 560MB/s and 520MB/s respectively. The drives will also deliver 87K burst IOPS, and over 60K sustained IOPS. They also mention that the drive has a score of …
Read More » In 2010, Other World Computing was one of the first to start shipping SSDs with a SandForce controller. Like those first SF drives, OWC’s new Enterprise Pro 6Gbps uses a SF processor and 28% over-provisioning. After that, the similarities end. The Enterprise Pro SSD utilizes eMLC, as is becoming popular in enterprise-style drives. Unlike many other eMLC drives, the Enterprise Pro is …
Read More » The OCZ Nocti SATA 2 120GB mSATA SSD is on our bench today and, “Welcome to the Year of the mSATA SSD!” Three years ago, one wouldn’t have imagined that we could get such power from an SSD that is 1/3 the size of a business card and the height of a 25 cent piece. This year already, mSATA SSDs …
Read More » Apple’s OSX operating system has supported TRIM for some time now, however, users of non-Apple SSDs don’t get official support. Trim Enabler 2.0 has just been released and finds it’s way around that unfortunate decision by fooling OSX into thinking that an aftermarket drive is, in reality, a Apple-branded SSD. Mac owners, unsatisfied with the price and/or performance of Apple’s …
Read More » The NVM Express working group has announced the release of Windows and Linux PCIe SSD drivers based on the NVM Express standard. The Windows driver was a collaborative effort of IDT, Intel, and LSI Sandforce and will be available under a BSD license. It will support all the mandatory features of the new spec. The Linux driver will be released …
Read More » A short time ago we reviewed the Silicon Power Velox V20 120GB SSD which just so happened to be one of the few SATA 2 drives that we had seen in 2011; the world has gone SATA 3. To say the least, it was rather unique as it was the first to contain Hynix NAND flash memory that we had …
Read More » OCZ today announced a new release of Octane firmware that should bolster performance. Released late last year, the Octane is the first to contain OCZ’ proprietary Indilinx controller since their purchase of the Korean company in 2011. The Octane possesses high sequential performance with random performance a bit lower, much to be expected from a companies first entry into the …
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