Author: Allyn Malventano

Today Western Digital announced two new models to their product lines.  Both are 7200 RPM 2TB models.  First is the 2TB Caviar Black, and second is...

Over the past few weeks we have seen an influx of companies getting into the SSD game.  Most have been memory makers like Patriot and Crucial. 

The Flash Memory Summit has just begun, and to kick things off, Intel and Micron have announced something unexpected:  3 bit per cell flash memory.  This is significant on many levels (pun…

Kingston has informed us of a new addition to their SSDNow V series line.  The new "V+" series incorporate Samsung RBB controllers and will be available in the usual Samsung sizes (64…

For those who managed to sneak an early purchase of an Intel X25-M G2 series SSD, there is now a firmware update available for your downloading pleasure.  Please...

OCZ wanted some feedback from us on their previously hush-hush project: custom Indilinx firmware.  Since they did not have the end-user flasher ready to roll, they passed us a sample

Fusion-io passed along a press release with some of their internal testing results of the ioXtreme.  In the below release, they claim a 6x performance gain under Maya as compared to a…

Much of the below press release is industry jargon, but what you can take home from this is Fusion-io paired an ioDrive with a Dell PowerEdge and MS SQL Server to produce…

***Public Service Announcement*** Intel has informed me of a bug in the X25-M G2 shipping firmware (02G2).  This bug is…

You may remember us talking about the upcoming OCZ Colossus SSD - the first standard 3.5-in form factor solid state drive first shown at Computex 2009.  As it happens, some preliminary performance…

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Our Intel X25-M G2 sample just arrived.  I promptly threw it on the storage testbed and got some initial data.  I'll let the pics do the talking: