Storage
SK hynix early in Friday announced that the company has finished the development of it's PCB01 PCIe Gen5 SSD, the company's forthcoming high-end SSD for OEMs. Based on the company's new Alistar platform, the PCB01 is designed to deliver chart-topping performance for client machines. And, as a sign of the times, SK hynix is positioning the PCB01 for AI PCs, looking to synergize with the overall industry interest in anything and everything AI. The bare, OEM-focused drives have previously been shown off by SK hynix, and make no attempt to hide what's under the hood. The PCB01 relies on SK hynix's Alistar controller, which features a PCIe Gen5 x4 host interface on the front end and eight NAND channels on the back end, placing it...
Intel's SSD 310: G2 Performance in an mSATA Form Factor
Although not quite the Intel SSD announcement we were expecting in Q4, today Intel unveiled its first mSATA SSD: the Intel SSD 310. Based on the 34nm Intel X25-M G2...
52 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/29/2010
Micron's ClearNAND: 25nm + ECC, Combats Increasing Error Rates
NAND endurance is on its way down with each subsequent process generation. At the same time unrecoverable bit error rates are on their way up. Companies like SandForce have...
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/2/2010
ADATA N004 - SATA & USB 3.0 SSD Reviewed
OCZ and Kingston have already shown us what solid state technology can do for external drive transfer speeds when given the headroom provided by USB 3.0 technology. Now, ADATA...
18 by Rajinder Gill on 11/29/2010
Quick Look: Kingston HyperX MAX 3.0, A USB 3.0 V+100 SSD
Although OCZ was first on the market with a USB 3.0 enabled SSD with its Enyo drive, competitors are knocking down the doors and bridging the gap. We saw...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/24/2010
OCZ Vertex Plus Preview: Introducing the Indilinx Martini
Last year was dominated by two SSD controller manufacturers: Intel and Indilinx. Intel delivered the performance while Indilinx offered a value alternative. Once SandForce hit early this year however...
61 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/16/2010
Kingston SSDNow V+100 Review
I'm not sure what it is about SSD manufacturers and overly complicated product stacks. Kingston has no less than six different SSD brands in its lineup. The E Series...
96 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/11/2010
A Quick Look at OCZ's RevoDrive x2: IBIS Performance without HSDL
Over the summer we previewed OCZ's first affordable PCIe SSD: the RevoDrive. Made of a pair of SandForce SF-1200 controllers behind a PCI-X RAID controller and a PCI-X to...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/4/2010
Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB and My Book Essential 3TB Drives Reviewed
Two months ago I looked at the world’s first 3TB desktop hard drive. It was a 5 platter, 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT inside an external GoFlex Desk chassis. The...
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/19/2010
Seagate GoFlex Home 2TB Reviewed
If you’ve got more than one PC in the home, having a network drive to share files, stream media and create backups can make a lot of sense. Seagate...
30 by Rajinder Gill on 10/10/2010
SandForce Announces Next-Gen SSDs, SF-2000 Capable of 500MB/s and 60K IOPS
For months SandForce has been telling me that the market is really going to get exciting once its next-generation controller is ready. I didn’t really believe it, simply because...
85 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/7/2010
Intel's 3rd Generation X25-M SSD Specs Revealed
What's this? The long awaited specs for Intel's third generation SSD? Indeed. Internally it’s called the Postville Refresh (the X25-M G2 carried the Postville codename), but externally it carries the...
97 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/5/2010
Western Digital Introduces new USB 3.0 External Drives, Hits 3TB
Although Seagate was first to market with an external 3TB drive, it wasn’t without issues. In our testing of the 3TB GoFlex Desk we found that under continuous usage...
21 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/5/2010
OCZ's Fastest SSD, The IBIS and HSDL Interface Reviewed
Earlier this year OCZ announced its intention to bring a new high speed SSD interface to the market. Frustrated with the slow progress of SATA interface speeds, OCZ wanted...
74 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/29/2010
Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 & OCZ Enyo, Quick Look at Two USB 3.0 SSDs
Since I reviewed my first SSD, three things have happened. 1) Controllers have improved significantly. My personal favorite, SandForce’s SF-1200, can outperform the original X25-M by more than 3x...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2010
The World's First 3TB HDD: Seagate GoFlex Desk 3TB Review
Seagate recently announced the world's first 3TB 3.5" HDD. There's just one catch: it's external only. The FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 3TB arrived in our labs over a week ago...
81 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/23/2010
Micron Announces RealSSD P300, SLC SSD for Enterprise
Buying an SSD for your notebook or desktop is nice. You get more consistent performance. Applications launch extremely fast. And if you choose the right SSD, you really curb...
49 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/12/2010
The SSD Diaries: Crucial's RealSSD C300
The promise was high. Crucial was to not only offer better than X25-M performance but also be the first to deliver a 6Gbps SSD. Competing controller makers wouldn't hit...
51 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/13/2010
Crucial RealSSD C300: 64GB for $150
To date, the least expensive SSDs worth consideration have come in at around $100 give or take. Our last roundup looked at the Intel X25-V 40GB, the Kingston SSDNow...
40 by Jarred Walton on 6/28/2010
OCZ's RevoDrive Preview: An Affordable PCIe SSD
Take two SandForce SF-1200 controllers and put them on a card with a boatload of NAND and a RAID controller. Add some special sauce to keep the price low...
62 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/25/2010
Intel's X25-M and X25-V Now Available in Best Buy Stores
Consider this one big step for SSD-kind: Intel just sent along a note letting us know that its X25-M and X25-V SSDs are now available at Best Buy. The...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/22/2010
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
