Storage News Roundup: Q4’2010 Hard Drive Market Analysis, Windows 7 and...
This week did not have any ultra exciting announcements like Windows Home Server 2011, a Cougar Point bug or anything of that nature, so I picked a few top tidbits that I saw this week. TrendFocus...
View ArticleAmazon Cloud Drive, DVD Market Shrinking, Intel SSD 320 Launched,...
Some big news came out this week from Amazon.com, Santa Clara Consulting Group, Intel, and OCZ. Overall solid state drives and the transition from physical media to the cloud for some applications are...
View ArticleIntel Xeon E3-Bromolow Launch, OCZ Vertex 3, Microsoft Free iSCSI Target, New...
Major news this week including the Intel Xeon E3-1200 series and Bromolow platform launch, Microsoft releasing a free iSCSI target for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2, Small...
View ArticleCloud Storage Shut-down while Viking SATADIMMs, ATTO 10GbE, and OCZ Vertex 3...
Here is a quick roundup of interesting news this week: Iron Mountain Shutters Public Cloud Storage and Nirvanix Reaches Out to Stranded Customers Perhaps one of the scariest things for anyone storing...
View ArticleOCZ Accused of Fraud, Seagate-Samsung, EMC Earnings, WD Earnings
This week saw OCZ accused of fraud, a big storage merger announced and divergent earnings reports from EMC and Western Digital. Scathing Report Implies OCZ Has Committed Fraud Copperfield Research has...
View ArticleOCZ Vertex 4 256GB SSD Review: Marvell w/ Indilinx Firmware
The OCZ Vertex 4 256GB SSD is absolutely a fast solid state drive. Recently I started picking up on doing more SSD benchmarking for the site. A lot of users had been requesting that I do some...
View ArticleOCZ Vertex 4 256GB Firmware v1.5 Performance Update
The OCZ Vertex 4 line, including the Vertex 4 256GB recently received another firmware update. Keen readers will remember performance was increased significantly with firmware v1.4. Today we are...
View ArticleSamsung 830 256GB SATA III SSD Benchmarks and Review
The Samsung 830 256GB SSD is a top pick in this SSD generation given Samsung’s reputation for quality. One can find Samsung SSD offerings inside several OEMs such as Apple and HP so we know the level...
View ArticleSanDisk Extreme 240GB SSD Benchmarks and Review
The SanDisk Extreme 240GB utilizes a LSI SandForce SF-2281 controller alongside Toggle NAND to achieve some fairly impressive performance. Inside the SanDisk Extreme is NAND from the Toshiba and...
View ArticleSolid State Drives Are Now Less Expensive than Hard Drives
I had not thought about this in awhile, but Solid State Drives (SSDs) are now less expensive than their hard drive counterparts. Sure, someone probably just did a bit of research and saw a SanDisk...
View ArticleAnvil’s Storage Utilities Comparison of Current 240GB and 256GB SSD Offerings
Lately I have done a few SSD benchmark sessions on some of today’s popular SATA III solid state drives. One thing that I did not have is results of Anvil’s Storage Utilities bechmarks for all of those...
View ArticleOCZ Agility 4 128GB SSD Review and Benchmarks
OCZ entered controversial territory with the Vertex 4 and subsequently the OCZ Agility 4 SSD. For those drives, OCZ paired Marvell SSD controllers with in-house Indilinx firmware. Although OCZ has been...
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