ioSafe N2 – The Performance NAS is now Disaster-proof
Last year we did a combined review of the ioSafe SoloPRO and the Synology Diskstation 212+ NAS solution. The ioSafe handled the function of disaster-hardened storage, capable...
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Author: Allyn Malventano
Taking an Accurate Look at SSD Write Endurance
Last year, I posted a rebuttal to a paper describing the future of flash memory as ‘bleak’. The paper went through great...
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ADATA XPG SX900 128GB SSD Full Review – Low Cost SandForce
Introduction With newer and faster SSDs coming to market, we should not forget those capable controllers of yesteryear. There are plenty of folks out there cranking out products based...
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Intel SSD 525 Series Full Capacity Roundup – Intel Sweeps mSATA
Introduction It has been just under a year since Intel released their 520 Series SSD, which was their second 6 Gb/sec SATA unit. Sporting a SandForce controller, that...
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CES 2013: Micron demos DDR4 DIMMs, announces 20nm Crucial M500 SSDs at $0.60/GB
At the Micron/Crucial, we were shown an expansion to their DDR3 memory line, to include lower profile parts: These reduced height modules should make for easier installation into HTPC and other small form…
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CES 2013: Western Digital thin 5mm and 7mm hard drives now also come in hybrid SSHD!
Today Western Digital showed me their new 5mm and 7mm mobile hard drives. These are very thin, intended for Ultrabooks, and come not only in the familiar Blue product line, but also…
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CES 2013: OCZ reworks product lines, releases PCIe-based Vector SSD
Today at CES, OCZ released the Vector PCIe SSD: This is essentially a RevoDrive, still using VCA 2.0 as the method of tying a pair of SSDs together, only in this case OCZ…
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Connected Data’s Transporter spotted in the wild at CES
At CES we got a look at some real Transporter hardware in action, and got a few of our questions answered. First some...
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CES 2013 Day 2: Samsung
I attended the Samsung press conference today, where several new products were announced. Among these was the 2013 line of Smart TV's: The 2013 series is just a minor cosmetic redesign with a…
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Storage Visions – The Panasonic DataArchiver – 108TB of Blu-Ray Archival Storage in a 6U Chassis
At Storage Visions I came across a clever device from Panasonic. The DataArchiver: This is a 6U rack-mount chasses, capable of being filled with 108TB of Blu-Ray discs. Several stacks of 12-disc cartridges…
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Storage Visions – FusionIO shows off ioDrive II and ioFX
At Storage Visions, we checked out new products from FusionIO, namely the ioDrive II and ioFX: There was a demo running with a pair of ioFX units paired...
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Kickstarter begins for Transporter: Internet Connected Private Storage
I was recently briefed on an interesting new product called the Transporter, a file sharing device engineered by the same folks that took part in the creation of the Drobo....
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