Storage - Page 130
All the latest storage news, with everything related to new solid-state drives (SSDs), hard drives & plenty more - Page 130.
Samsung Shows off 256GB SSD
If you have been following the SSD game, the one thing that tends to turn most people off from (aside from the ridiculous prices) is capacity. Considering we have games in that take up tens of Gigabytes along with ripped movies and MP3 collections of vast sizes the 40, 80 and 128GB SSDs do not have enough room to make them worth the cost.
But Samsung wants to change all of that. Today they announced the release of a 256GB SSD drive that not only outpaces all other available SSDs on the market in terms of size, but (if Samsung is to be believed) can outperform the others too.
TechPowerUp has the scoop here.
Seagate starts shipping self-encrypting 2.5" HDDs
Seagate has today announced that it has started shipping a new family of Momentus series 2.5-inch hard disks. What's mostly different about these particular drives is that they are self-encrypting and offer an added level of security to notebooks. Seagate has chosen to join forces with McAfee who supply the client side encryption management software that interacts with the embedded hardware encryption on the drives.
There are four drives announced today, with bigger capacity models in the works for early next year. These drives comprise both 5400 and 7200RPM models, both in capacities of 160 and 320GB. The 5400RPM drives have 8MB of cache whilst the 7200RPM drives have 16.
You can learn more about the new Momentus 5400 FDE.3 and 7200 FDE (full-disk encryption) hard disks within Seagate's official announcement here folks.
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SanDisk Speeds up its SSDs
SSDs seem all the rage today everyone is talking about them. We hear how they are the future, how they are bad, and how ridiculously expensive they are!
After the news that MS is going to put optimizations for SSDs into Seven we find out that SanDisk is going to put in some optimizations right into the drives themselves.
This will show up as Extreme FFS (Flash File Management System) which is a page-based algorithm to speed up random reads and writes (up to 100 time for random writes according to SanDisk)
Read more here
Windows Seven To Have Improved SSD Support
We keep hearing that Solid State Drives are the future with performance estimates to match the claims. The problem is that when people try and put them to the test we do not see the huge leap we should.
Much of this is due to bandwidth limitations of the SATA 3G transfer standard. According to CNET Microsoft sees another area of concern inside the OS itself. To improve on this Redmond is going to be adding in code to ID your SSD and optimize performance for this
Read more here
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Sharkoon out with Do-it-Yourself SDHC SSD drive
Even though we saw a brief look at this product a little while ago, Sharkoon has just officially announced its 2.5-inch sized Flexi-Drive S2S, which is a DIY SDHC based SSD.
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Seagate launch worlds fastest 15,000RPM SAS HDD
Seagate has made a big step forward in the enterprise storage market today, launching the world's fastest hard drive under its Savvio series.
The Savvio 15K.2 uses a SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) 2.0 interface and runs at a spindle speed of 15,000RPM. Whilst being incredibly fast, the inclusion of new proprietory power saving technologies from Seagate are used to make the 2.5-inch 15K.2 an extremely efficient drive that uses up to 70% less power than competing 3.5-inch models.
Capacities come in at 146 and 73GB and with the help of the SAS 2.0 interface's 6Gb/s throughput on tap, these drives are highly suited to RAID configurations.
For further information on the new Savvio 15K.2 series, click here.
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Seagates 1.5TB monster HDD reviewed
I'm sure some of you can relate when I say that the more storage you invest in for your server/main PC, the faster you tend to fill it. With that said, I bet many of you were drooling when Seagate announced they were working on a whopping 1.5TB desktop drive as a new member to their Barracuda 7200.11 lineup. Some of us can never have "enough" space, so bring on the big drives!
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Patriot's improved Warp SSD claims 175MB/s reads
Patriot has just announced that it has upgraded its Warp Solid State Drives with a really nice speed boost to both read and write transfers.
The second version of the Warp drive claims read speeds of up to 175MB/s and write speeds of up to 100MB/s, putting Patriot upgraded SSD right up the top of the food chain.
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Intel ignites SSD storage field with blazing speed
Following its collaboration with memory giant, Micron Technology, Intel is gearing up to unveil SSD solutions with blazing read/write speeds of 240 MB/s and 70 to 170 MB/s respectively, according to this report from TG Daily.
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OCZ make big strides in SSD market - Core V2
OCZ have really revved up the solid state storage market with the introduction of their Core series drives a couple months back, which brought excellent performance at fantastic prices.
Since then, they've kept working on Core to make it even better; thus, today we see the introduction of a new breed dubbed the Core V2 Series.
Where the first units featured read speeds of around 120 to 140ish MB/sec and write speeds of 80 to 95MB/sec, the new V2 series pumps out 170MB/sec and 98MB/sec read and write speeds respectively. Furthermore, we see OCZ's largest capacity SSD drive enter this new series, a 250GB model.
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