If the OCZ Z-Drive R4 announce isn’t enough to demonstrate the company’s goals, the release of the OCZ-SANRAD VXL just prove it. In fact, the manufacturer announced the immediate availability of OCZ-SANRAD VXL enterprise storage accelerator, a software that enables … Continue reading
OCZ finally released the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ, its PCI Express SSD solution tailored for cloud infrastructures. The drive is powered by SandForce SF-2581 controllers and MLC NAND ICs. It’s available in 800GB, 1.6TB, 3.2TB and 6.4TB capacities. The maximum throughput … Continue reading
Enterprise server environments require high levels of reliability and that’s the reason why the latest 25nm NAND flash memories weren’t adopted in pro-SSDs until today. Hitachi GST, now owned by Western Digital, released the Ultrastar SSD400S.B, the first SSD equipped … Continue reading
OCZ recently released a new firmware – 1.13 – for its Octane series. AnandTech tested the update and found that it strongly reduces write amplification in a worst-case scenario, falling from 53.5 times to 18.1. That’s a really good news … Continue reading
That’s not the first time Intel has released a drive equipped with a third-party controller. Actually, the Santa Clara-based company has no 6Gbps controllers in its portfolio and so buys them from other manufacturers. That being said, the controller is … Continue reading
I keep testing as many SSDs as I can to improve our performance database. Today it’s the turn of the Intel SSD 320. This unit is the successor of the lucky X25-M drive. It features an Intel chipset that lacks … Continue reading
You know, 2011 wasn’t a big year for HD manufacturers, except Seagate. Despite Thai-floods and European debt crisis, the Cupertino-based company keeps improving its records. Continue reading
On February 1st, the merger between Freesoft S.r.l. and Nanosytems S.r.l. will be completed. The new company will inherit the Nanosystems’ name and all the Freesoft’s products and intellectual properties will be branded accordingly. Nanosystems, born in Ascoli Piceno – … Continue reading
If you want to protect your system against machine failures you need to perform a Drive Image Backup: a full copy of your disk. It’s a long task, the first time it takes hours but for the next copies it … Continue reading
Mac sales grown 26% during 2011. That’s a very good result considering that the PC market is shrinking. Western Digital doesn’t want to miss this opportunity and posted a press release about an external storage system powered by 2 hard … Continue reading
HD manufacturer Western Digital announced yesterday its Q2 financial results. The company reported revenue of $2.0 billion, hard-drive unit shipments of 28.5 million and net income of $145 million. Continue reading
It seems January is a good month for SSD manufacturers to release fixes and updates. The first was Crucial, now it’s the turn of Samsung and OCZ. Continue reading
For starters, TRIM is a command sent by the OS to a disk which tells what data are no longer in use and can be wiped internally. It’s a very important feature on a SSD. Without TRIM, a solid state … Continue reading
AnandTech posted an interesting news about Kingston. Oddly enough, there’s nothing available about this release in the company’s press room. The manufacturer is going to release a “low cost” SandForce drive for people looking for a an affordable SSD. Continue reading
File Systems are really important pieces of software that heavely affects the performance and the usage of an OS. Microsoft knows that very well and it’s beginning the transition from the aged NTFS to the new ReFS, acronym for Resilent File System.
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