Hot on the heels of OCZ's announcement of thier upcoming Z-Series PCI-E card SSD - SuperTalent is joining the fray with a PCIe RAID 5 SSD solution up to freakin' 2TB. It's a good thing they won't be shipping these for another month or two: Give's ya'll time to fatten up your WALLET first 'cuz these SSD slot mounted multi-drive cards are gonna set you back several grand...



PQI has announced a rather interesting line of upcoming solid-state storage products an Express Card SSD for laptops with pop-out optional USB connector, and an external SSD drive with both flip out external eSATA and USB for maximum versatility.

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G.Skill announced it's upcoming FALCON series SATA II SSD recently -- with impressive performance numbers to rival OCZ's VERTEX which also uses the Indilinx controller. No surprise since we're simply hitting a point where the chip sets inside a solid-state disk will largely determine core benchmarks, and other aspects of Firmware and amound of onboard cache will be marginally incremental in tweaking SSD thruput #'s only to a minor degree.

G.Skill Falcon FM-25S2S-128GBF1

All things being relatively equal, we'll rapidly hit a point in the SSD market where given tiers of SSD's will start seeing rather predictable performance. As SSD's commoditize, PRICE, WARRANTY, TECH SUPPORT and the perceived value of the BRAND in the consumer market to become the differentiators as the raw numbers start to equalize.

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Technological advances to the Solid-State SSD disk storage market are a good thing. The vengeance with which these drives are being analyzed to within a nano-second of thier lives is not. The average, normal person is simply looking for a way to pep-up their aging laptop computer with a much faster replacement SSD drive. Or businesses are simply investing in ways to make their Servers handle transactions more smoothly with a Solid-State drive.


But leave it to the TWEAK-GEEKS to overanalyze this exploding SSD market to death. These guys - and they ARE guys - you'd think they were re-living their teenage dream-car, hot-rod rods by jamming the disk-bashing benchmark rulers are far into their pubic bones as possible to get to the TRUTH about what solid-state drives are packin'.

Let's keep it simple: SSD's start your computer faster than you knew possible, your applications open in a literal 'flash' of high-speed memory cells, and most will realize what a sluggish bottle-neck their old, spinning-platter hard drive really was. We'll be glad we upgraded to an SSD and then the rest of us simply get back to running our biz and personal lives, managing our correspondence and entertainment with satisfying responsiveness.

Here at www.ssd-solid-state-drives.com the point is to simply point out that SSD storage is here, it's performance is already great and getting better, it's easy to find an exceptional deal on one - and is a worthwhile, AFFORDABLE upgrade to an aging computer. Hard drives die from mechanical failure at an alarming rate - and if your's starts to croak or gives you the dreaded CLICKS OF DEATH - consider an SSD. The solid-state drive market has really come together in 2009 and has a long, long future ahead of it.

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As of Spring 2009, the Vertex solid-state drive is OCZ's top performing MLC SSD drive. A next-generation controller chip coupled with 64mb of onboard cache gives this SATA II solid-state disk superlative Read - and most importantly - equally impressive Write performance. The OCZ Vertex line delivers a VERY, very fast SSD to rival the one to beat: the Intel X25-M 80GB MLC drive -- but the Vertex delivers 120GB of capacity for about the same amount of money.

Today, OCZ announced a "Mac Edition" model of the Vertex supposedly certified by Apple. Whether there's special Firmware tweaks involved to optimize performance on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard was unknown till a day or two later: Supposedly the Mac version's quoted speeds are throttled back a bit to better match OSX's drivers. This isn't THAT big of a deal, OCZ did the same detuning to the Apex Firmware to make it perform better OVERALL rather than appease the flat-out fastest of the benchmarking NERDS who are out to shave precious micro-seconds off their trivial geeked-out lives. Regardless, the Vertex is faster than snot, affordable - and most importantly -- it's nice to have OCZ recognize the value in speaking to Apple Computer's ever-growing market share.

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