Internal Storage

If you put off your upgrade plans following the 2011 Thailand Floods, now is a great time to consider expanding your computer or network’s storage capabilities.

Today’s fastest SSDs already bounce off the SATA 6Gb/s interface’s throughput ceiling. Does a 3 Gb/s link kill the performance of those drives? We run a number of synthetic and real-world tests to assess the damage when you upgrade an older platform.

More details and images of Asus’ ROG RAIDR Express have surfaced.

OCZ is reportedly working on a refresh of its 20 nm SSD that includes a new Barefoot 3-based controller.

We’ve already reviewed Intel’s SSD DC S3700 and determined it to be a fast, consistent performer. But what happens when we take two-dozen (or about $50,000) worth of them and create a massive RAID 0 array? Come along as we play around in storage heaven.

Here’s another entry to Silicon Power’s portfolio of SSDs.

OCZ’s 5th Generation of high-performance Vertex SSDs may arrive towards the end of May 2013.

Crucial has detailed UK pricing for its M500 series of SSDs.

Crucial has released a new lineup of SSDs, the M500.

HGST’s new range of Ultrastar Drives are the industry’s first 12 Gb/s SAS Solid State Drives.

HighPoint released the Rocket 750, a 40-port SATA3 controller.

Mushkin’s new range of Chronus SSDs feature a lighter footprint, improved reliability and higher performance when compared to the Chronus Deluxe.

The Neutron GTX V2 solid state drive features Toshiba’s 19 nm chips and LAMD LM87800 controllers.

Intel has a new family of mSATA-based SSDs powered by SandForce’s second-gen controller. Dubbed the SSD 525, we have all five capacities in our lab. Can the promise of strong performance, 5,000 P/E cycles, and a five-year warranty make up for high prices?

Seagate has announced that it has started shipping out 4 TB drives with platters of 1 TB.

InnoDisk’s iSLC technology aims to create cost effective, long lasting NAND memory with performance on par with Single-Level Cell (SLC) designs.

Adata has released an update for a number of its SSDs which solves TRIM issues.

The TS-421U and TS-420U rackmount models are intended to provide “sustained high performance for daily routines in file storage, sharing, and data backup.”

Seagate has shipped its two-billionth hard drive ever.

New series is SSDs is advertised as combining “high performance and efficiency for data-intensive, energy-sensitive applications”.