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WD completes its 3-way deal

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Davide Costantini
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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 →

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OCZ releases a 64GB Vertex 4

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Davide Costantini
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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 →

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“Cheap” 1TB SSD arriving

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Davide Costantini
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Thanks to Kingmax, Japaneses can now buy a cheap 1TB SSD. In fact, Engadget spotted the SMU25 Client Pro 1TB in Japan at about $1,500. That’s a pretty good price point compared to the competitor OCZ Octane 1TB, sold at … Continue reading →

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Intel SSD 910 is fast

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Davide Costantini
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I talked about Intel SSD 910, its first PCIe solution, about a month ago. Now it’s available the first review of the drive published by Hot Hardware. The results are good. The 910 isn’t as fast as some OCZ PCIe … Continue reading →

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OCZ Q4 2012 financial results

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Davide Costantini
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Fiscal year 2012 was a good one for OCZ. The company collected record revenues of about $360 million thanks to a really strong growth of SSD business (+152%). 2011′s revenues were only 190 million. Despite these strong sales OCZ suffered … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged financial results, OCZ

Samsung launches thinnest DVD drive ever

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Davide Costantini

Who cares about DVD drives? It seems Samsung does! The Korean chaebol launched the slimmest optical drive ever created. This solution aims to be a part of your next-gen Ultrabook or tablet. These highly portable devices needs tiny peripherals to … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged Optical Drive, Samsung

WD Q3 2012 financial results

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Davide Costantini
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Western Digital revealed its Q3 financial results. Despite the negative effects of the Thai Floods, the company seems to be in a pretty good shape, thanks to the acquisition of HGST, of which results has been included in the balance … Continue reading →

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April 23th, where are Ivy Bridges?

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Davide Costantini

There’s something I don’t get today… It’s April 23th and Ivy Bridge processors are expected to be released but where the fuck are they? Intel isn’t known as a “paper launcher” company. I had experience with its modus operandi and … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged CPU, Intel, Ivy Bridge

OCZ Vertex 3 240GB reviewed

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Davide Costantini
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Today I’m going to show you how the OCZ Vertex 3 performed in our tests. This drive doesn’t need to be presented, it was the company’s flagship solution previous the release of the Vertex 4. Under the hood, there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged OCZ, SandForce, ssd, Vertex 3

Intel to launch cheap SF-2281 drive

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Davide Costantini
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Intel is preparing to launch its SSD 330, the successor of the SSD 320. Unlike its predecessor, it doesn’t mount a controller manufactured by the company but a SandForce SF-2281. This is the same solution as the more expensive SSD … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged Intel, SandForce, ssd

Crucial M4 gets firmware update

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Davide Costantini
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Crucial released a new update for its flagship M4 solution. This time the goal isn’t remove a bug but improve stability and support to SAS and RAID controllers. The company want the M4 to be more widespread among enterprise solutions. … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged crucial, firmware, M4, ssd

Intel to release its first PCIe SSD

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Davide Costantini

This is a really important news because most of Intel’s SSDs are aimed to the enterprise market. So the lacks of a PCIe solution was disappointing. But soon you will be able to buy – if you have enough money … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged Intel, PCIe, ssd

OCZ releases astonishing Vertex 4

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Davide Costantini
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Vertex 4 is finally here and has an IndiLinx controller – Everest 2 – inside its body. This means that the long partnership between OCZ and SandForce is going to break up soon. The manufacturer has many SSDs powered by … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged OCZ, ssd, Vertex 4

Plextor M3 SSD: un unexpected guest

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Davide Costantini
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Plextor isn’t a brand known for its SSD solutions, rather for their optical drives, but it manufactures solid state drives since 2010. Now it released the M3, a 6Gbps SATA Marvell-based drive that shares the controller with the Intel SSD … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged M3, Marvell, Plextor, ssd

HD prices are going to drop soon

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Davide Costantini

A rumor published by DigiTimes suggests that HD prices will drop by about 10% at the end of the month. The hard drive supply is recovering and the Q2 2012 production is about 17% lower than Q3 2011. For the … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged floods, hd, prices

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