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Another Plextor’s SSD series

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Davide Costantini
Plextor M3

Plextor is on fire! The manufacturer released another SSD series: the M5S. They are Marvell-powered solid state drive with Micron’s 25nm synchronous MLC NAND. Performance is similar to Plextor’s flagship solution M3. Street prices aren’t available yet but sure they … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged M5S, Plextor, ssd

WD launches NAS-optimized HDs

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Davide Costantini
WD Red HDs featured

Western Digital launched its Red HD series, optimized for NAS. This announce is pretty interesting because no manufacturer has ever released a similar product before. NAS are becoming widespread solutions for media streaming and optimized disks can improve the user … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged hd, nas, Red, WD

Plextor keep impressing with its SSDs

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Davide Costantini
Plextor M3

Sure Plextor isn’t known for its powerful SSDs but maybe a day it will be. After the good M3 drive, the company released the M3 Pro: its fastest consumer SSD. Powered by a Marvell controller it’s available in three sizes: … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged M3 Pro, Plextor

WD Sentinel DX4000 review

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Davide Costantini
WD Sentinel DX4000 featured

Thanks to the abundance of consumer electronics, NAS has become widespread beasts. Most of are Linux-ARM units and it’s not difficult to understand why: Linux is open source and can be freely customized, there is a lot of server-specific software … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged nas, review, Sentinel DX4000, WD, Western Digital

OCZ Vertex 4 review

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Davide Costantini
OCZ Vertex 4 featured

I keep reviewing as SSDs as I can, this time it’s the turn of the Vertex 4: according to OCZ’s claims it’s the fastest consumer drive in the world. A really nice product to try The company sent me a … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged OCZ, review, ssd, Vertex 4

Ready for the Vertex 4?

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Davide Costantini
Vertex 4 featured

OCZ sent me this awesome drive, the 128GB version. I’m currently testing it… Ready for the review? Stay tuned!

Posted in News | Tagged OCZ, Vertex 4

SandForce SF-2281 suffers of a AES-256 bug

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Davide Costantini
Intel SSD 520 featured image

Intel discovered a bug in the SandForce SF-2281 controller, equipped by its SSD 520: it doesn’t work with AES-256 encryption while AES-128 runs flawlessly. The problem is important for enterprise custmoers and Intel has plenty of them. Furthermore, the bug … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged bug, Intel, SandForce, SSD 520

Q1 2012 mobile industry analysis

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Davide Costantini

Hi guys, this time I want to show you a little homework I did for my italian blog. It’s not about backup, it’s about mobile industry and I hope you will forgive this little off-topic. I gathered some data from … Continue reading →

Posted in Tutorials | Tagged Apple, mobile industry, operating income, Samsung

News from the Computex

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Davide Costantini

Computex Taipei is one of the most interesting expo in the world. Hardware manufacturers shows previews and concepts of their future produtcs. This year is no exception and I’am following storage device manufacturers. Here is a summary of the most … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged Computex, Corsair, OCZ, Sandisk, ssd

OCZ launches Agility 4

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Davide Costantini
OCZ Agility 4 featured

OCZ announced the release of the Agility 4 series: SSDs based on the same Indilinx Everest 2 controller equipped by the Vertex 4. As the previous Agility series, these drives will be cheaper but slower than the Vertex ones. Here … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged Agility 4, Everest, Indilinx, OCZ

OCZ Synapse reviewed

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Davide Costantini
OCZ Synapse featured

When Intel launched its Z68 chipset with Smart Response Technology, many users showed their interest for a cache solution for their PC: cache is not as fast as a genuine SSD but it can be deployed without reinstalling the OS … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged cache, OCZ, ssd, Synapse

Currently testing OCZ Synapse..

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Davide Costantini
OCZ Synapse featured

Eheheh OCZ sent us this awesome drive. Expect a complete review as soon as possible.

Posted in Reviews | Tagged OCZ, Synapse

OCZ seeks thin laptops

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Davide Costantini
vertex 3 featured

OCZ wants to put its SSDs in your laptop, even if it is a really thin one. So it released a low profile (7mm deep) Vertex 3 series aimed to fit your Ultrabooks. There is a growing interest from customers … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged OCZ, Vertex 3

WD completes its 3-way deal

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Davide Costantini
Hitachi Logo

We talked about the Hitachi GST acquisition about two months ago. To protect competition, UE and FTC required Western Digital to sell the Hitachi’s 3.5″ HD business to Toshiba. Today the company announced the completion of the operation. Toshiba is … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged acquisition, FTC, Hitachi, Toshiba, UE, Western Digital

OCZ releases a 64GB Vertex 4

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Davide Costantini
vertex 3 featured

The Vertex 4, OCZ’s flagship solution, is now available in a 64GB capacity. The company announced the release from its Twitter channel. Smaller drives usually have slower specifications and the Vertex 4 is no exception: Anyway this SSD is really … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged OCZ, ssd, Vertex 4

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