A-Data SSD Raid Drive SATA Enclosure
02/01/09 21:41 Filed in: SSD Adapter
Tom's Hardware mention's a great new 2-drive SSD adapter-enclosure RAID product from A-Data - slip 2 2.5" solid-state drives into this to have a standard 3.5" form-factor module to install into a desktop PC. It's innovation is an external hardware sitch to choose between JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, Span, SAFE33, SAFE50, or GUI modes. Nice!
Fit A 2.5" SSD Into a 3.5" Drive Bay
30/12/08 20:01 Filed in: SSD Hardware
Here's a very affordable $19.95 SSD drive adapter for Dekstop computer cases. Convert your 2.5 SSD to standard 3.5" mounts w/an ICY DOCK ADAPTER CASE
SSD Announcements - It's Like Changing Diapers - Daily
10/12/08 10:21 Filed in: SSD Hardware
SSD drive manufacturers TALK first - SHIP product in quantity LATER. So there's a lag between technological developments and when it reaches the consumer marketplace. It makes it hard to commit to an SSD drive purchase when something bigger, better gets announced every week.
Today - OCZ Technology Group announced a successor to their CORE Series - The VERTEX SSD product line with their newest architecture and controller design complete with 64MB of cache to offer faster transfers and superior overall system response. The Vertex Series promises performance and reliability of SSDs at less price per gigabyte than other high speed offerings currently on the market and offers the latest breakthroughs in MLC SSD technology:New architecture and controller design, 200MB/sec read and 160MB/sec write speeds. Yowza! Won't be long and even a SATA II 300mbps drive bus will be saturated by data flying out the SSD. I feel a new SATA III 600mbps spec coming on, don't you?
256GB SSD Disks On The Horizon
25/11/08 09:48 Filed in: SSD Hardware
Micron and Samsung are tooting their horns about producing ultra-high speed 256GB SSD's in the press recently - (uh, they'll get around to actually SHIPPING them sometime later this or next year - real soon.) The Micron drive will bring a read speed of 250MBps and write speed of 100MBps to the table, which compares very favorably to standard hard drives. But the Samsung drive is promising that their new 256GB drive can achieve read speeds of 220MBps AND have write speeds of a whopping 200MBps. So Intel's X-25 series can't rest on it's performance. Samsung's even bigger guns down the road are pointed at Intel's frontrunner.
Intel SSD's Raising The Performance Bar
17/11/08 06:12 Filed in: SSD Technology | SSD Speed
Intel's newest Mainstream X25-M SATA Solid-State Drives are designed to deliver outstanding SATA performance, and an advanced architecture using 10 parallel NAND flash channels equipped with multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory. Native Command Queuing to enable up to 32 concurrent operations,
Intel Mainstream SATA SSDs deliver higher input/output per second and throughput performance than other SSDs on the market today - and drastically outperform traditional hard disk drives: Claiming Up to 250MB/s Read Speeds - Up to 70MB/s Write Speeds with 85 microsecond latency. These drives also feature low write amplification and a unique wear-leveling design for higher reliability - delivering SSD's that not only perform better - but last longer. Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) commands supported. The cost? Currently about $600 for an 80GB drive.
There'll be two models in the X25 line: The X25-M - MLC multilayer SSD with SLOWER WRITE speeds at a lower cost. And the X25-E - Extreme SLC - single-layer construction that will have FASTER WRITE speeds at a much higher cost.
Intel Mainstream SATA SSDs deliver higher input/output per second and throughput performance than other SSDs on the market today - and drastically outperform traditional hard disk drives: Claiming Up to 250MB/s Read Speeds - Up to 70MB/s Write Speeds with 85 microsecond latency. These drives also feature low write amplification and a unique wear-leveling design for higher reliability - delivering SSD's that not only perform better - but last longer. Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) commands supported. The cost? Currently about $600 for an 80GB drive.
There'll be two models in the X25 line: The X25-M - MLC multilayer SSD with SLOWER WRITE speeds at a lower cost. And the X25-E - Extreme SLC - single-layer construction that will have FASTER WRITE speeds at a much higher cost.
SSD Data Transfer Rates - Benchmark Info
16/11/08 01:44 Filed in: SSD Benchmarks
Speeds of SSD solid-state flash disk drives nearly doubled within the past year as improvements to SLC and MLC NAND flash improved, higher volume of sales increased SSD profits and competition, and manufacturing efficiency and competition really heated up through 2008.
The first months of the year, SSD read-speeds hovered around 100mbs and initially 32GB and 64GB SSDs started shipping. Towards years end, top-performing SSD's with mind-blowing benchmarks are now approaching 200 mbps as capacities are pushing well beyond 120 gigabyte drives - or pushing prices down into the DOWNRIGHT CHEAP SSD range for drives now nominally in the 30-60gb range.
What makes the latter interesting is YOU CAN AFFORD AN SSD to test, replace, DIY upgrade for yourself to explore Solid-State disk technology and performance on your own system for well under $200. It doesn't have to be a break the bank proposition anymore.
The first months of the year, SSD read-speeds hovered around 100mbs and initially 32GB and 64GB SSDs started shipping. Towards years end, top-performing SSD's with mind-blowing benchmarks are now approaching 200 mbps as capacities are pushing well beyond 120 gigabyte drives - or pushing prices down into the DOWNRIGHT CHEAP SSD range for drives now nominally in the 30-60gb range.
What makes the latter interesting is YOU CAN AFFORD AN SSD to test, replace, DIY upgrade for yourself to explore Solid-State disk technology and performance on your own system for well under $200. It doesn't have to be a break the bank proposition anymore.
SSD Interfaces : SATA PATA ZIF
15/11/08 01:39 Filed in: SSD Hardware | SSD Interfaces
The bulk of SSD solid-state drives are manufactured to the modern SATA II specification. Careful selection will find standard ATA SSD's (sometimes referred to as PATA - Parallel ATA as well such as this low-cost Transcend ATA interface 2.5" 64GB drive -for retrofitting in somewhat older computers before the SATA standard superceded it. Still a huge market out there for ATA interface solid-state drives - tho the latest NAND-Flash technology can now exceed the data transfer rates of an ATA interface.
SSD Drive Adapters Brackets Mounts
13/11/08 01:33 Filed in: SSD Hardware
Imation and it's Mobi brand are most noted for producing SSD's in standard 3.5" drive form-factors with standard screw-hole mounts. Most other SSD mfrs like Sandisk, Patriot, OCZ, Transcend, Super-Talent et. al. are largely focused on the 2.5" LAPTOP replacement solid-state drive market.
There are adaptors and brackets to mount these smaller portable size drives in a 3.5" or even 5.25" drive case/mounts. Most notably ADDONICS which has long been a great source of adapters for many years.
There are adaptors and brackets to mount these smaller portable size drives in a 3.5" or even 5.25" drive case/mounts. Most notably ADDONICS which has long been a great source of adapters for many years.
SSD Drives : What Are You Waiting For?
12/11/08 23:44 Filed in: SSD Technology
1st Blog entry for SSD discs: More detailed absolutely the best deals on latest generation drives that sizzle and smoke the pants off of their predecessors. It isn't just about SSD read/write tranfer-rates and performance: Improved SSD controller chips with superior write-error management and wear-leveling logic can extend the life and capacity of an SSD over the long haul.