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
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
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
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
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
OCZ sent me this awesome drive, the 128GB version. I’m currently testing it… Ready for the review? Stay tuned!
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
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
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
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
Eheheh OCZ sent us this awesome drive. Expect a complete review as soon as possible.
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
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
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
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
