Our Mushkin Atlas mSATA SSD report of last week showed the Atlas as being one of the best SSDs on the market, however, it did have an Achilles Heel with respect to pricing. We even went so far as to deny the Atlas the much deserved Editor’s Choice recognition as we believed a difference of $100 between the Atlas and …
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A ‘measuring stick’ seems to have evolved in the SSD arena where performance can be separated by the type of data being tested. Some SSDs excel in transferring compressible data while others in incompressible data, such as we might see in music, video and photography. Our report today will evaluate the new OCZ Agility 4 256GB SSD which houses the …
Read More » Texas Memory Systems has announced the release of their RamSan-70 PCIe SSD. The RamSan-70 will employ the use of up to 900 GB of SLC memory, and deliver 1.5 million IOs per second, not to mention bandwidth of 2.5 GB per second and an ultra-low access latency of 30-60 microseconds. This should ensure that any server equipped with one of …
Read More » Toshiba has announced it will be cutting back its supply of NAND flash memory. Toshiba didn’t state a specific reason for ramping down production, though they did talk about a general trend when it came to “weak pricing” of storage products meant for consumer electronic devices, presumably due to nothing more than waning demand for what have pretty much become …
Read More » This SSD report will be a detailed analysis of the OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSD, the first and only third party SSD compatible with the new 2012 MacBook Air. This report will also carry things a step further by detailing our migration of the Aura Pro into our 2012 MBA, a system that we had successfully set up …
Read More » Transcend, well known for their myriad storage and memory solutions, has announced the release of its new SSD320 6Gb/s SSD. The LSI Sandforce based drive will deliver read and write speeds of up to 560MB/s and 530MB/s respectively. Also offered is random 4k performance of up to 87,000 IOPS, up from from the 60,000 IOPS seen on most garden variety SF-2281 based …
Read More » Following in the footsteps of OCZ, Corsair, Crucial and probably one or two others, Mushkin is introducing its Catalyst Caching line of SSDs which are available in 50GB and 100GB capacities and are both SATA 3 speeds. The Catalyst family uses the very successful NVELO Dataplex Caching software that we have reviewed several times prior and the best thing about …
Read More » Word showed up on our Forums earlier tonight of MSI joining Forces with LSI SandForce but all were initially unsure of their plans until someone found the goods on Industry News. It appears that MSI is jumping into the SSD Arena with both feet and will be marketing a new ‘LSI SandForce Driven’ Reflex Series of SSDs in 60, 120 …
Read More » It seems that the LSI SandForce Flash Storage Processor (FSP) combined with Toshiba Toggle Mode NAND is the perfect mix for solid state drives if we follow recent trends. Some manufacturers are even re-releasing SSDs with premium Toggle Mode NAND as the upgrade for that IOPS boost. The Mushkin Atlas 240GB mSATA SSD contains both ingredients and our analysis will …
Read More » These just may be the worlds first official pictures of the OWC Mercury Aura Pro SSD for the new 2012 MacBook Air and our thanks definitely go to OWC for sending us this SSD so quickly. We should also thank the Electronista for breaking the news as this allowed us a bit of leverage with respect to early release of …
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