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With advances in technology and software, SSD drives are making inroads at all levels of enterprise data storage and backup. SAN storage using SSD arrays continue to become more reliable and affordable, making the flash solution that offers the best availability and performance accessible to more companies. But cost, lifespan, and data reliability problems [...]
For those of you paying attention, it’s hard not to notice the downward trend in solid state drive pricing, which in some cases has fallen below a buck per gigabyte on high end SSDs. Be that as it may, market research firm IHS iSuppli believes mechanic…
Plextor, which largely built a name for itself with high end optical drives back before you could buy a DVD burner for less than the cost of a movie ticket and tub of popcorn, is largely focused on solid state drives (SSDs) these days, and the company’…
Kingston's HyperX brand is synonymous with high performance which is why they've placed that badge prominently on their newest SSD. So when we received their newest and first HyperX SSD, we were very curious to see how it stacked up against o…
Intel really kicked the SSD world in high gear when they released their X-25 series of drives last year. Their performance was the benchmark that all other drives were measured against for quite some time. Many have wondered what Intel would bring to…
Plextor has come out with a new solid state drive line the company says is “currently one of fastest SSDs available in the market.” A bold claim, one that’s backed up by marrying the new M2 series SSDs with a Marvell 88SS9174 controller. By doing so, t…
RunCore may not be a household name but they sure know how to make a quality SSD. We put their SandForce SF-1200 based 120GB Pro V drive through our battery of tests to see just how it fared against others we have tested. Have they managed to eke out…
Return of the dizzying speeds
How can you improve on OCZ Technology’s original RevoDrive (reviewed November 2010), which binds two SandForce SF-1200 SSDs to a PCI-E card? You add another two SSDs for a quad-drive SSD. That’s what OCZ did for the Re…