AMP: 64 GB SSD for the first MacBook Air

The manufacturer Active Media Products has added a new model to its line of SSD SaberTooth Z. With a capacity of 64 GB, SSD contains the 1.8-inch ZIF connector and the 40-pin of the other models in the range. The SaberTooth Z is compatible with a number of products, including HP's Mini 1000 and the first MacBook Air from Apple.

Based on a 3016 controller Phison and using MLC NAND flash memory, 64 GB SSD that can reach speeds of about 80MB / s read and 55 MB / s write. The SaberTooth Z 64 GB should be offered at a price of 179 dollars or 189 dollars with an upgrade kit (containing an adapter to clone the SSD / HDD home).

• MacBook Airs using SSDs from both Toshiba and Samsung (26/07/2011)
• 2011 Macbook Air SSD speeds are not consistent (25/07/2011)
• Acer's leaked ultrabook looks a lot like a MacBook Air (09/08/2011)
• Refurb Apple MacBook Air Laptops: From $749 + free shipping (17/08/2011)
• Feature: How to speed up an aging MacBook with a solid state drive (22/08/2011)

MacBook Air (homepage)  MacBook Air (wikipedia)  Solid-state drive (wikipedia)  

Corsair launches two 90 GB SSD

Corsair has just added two new models in its catalog SSD already full: the Force and Force GT 3 90Go 90Go. 2.5-inch standard format, these SSDs use a controller SandForce SF-2200 and MLC NAND flash. They benefit from a 6 Gbps SATA interface and have a MTBF of 2 million hours. As for performance, the Force 3 to 550 MB / s sequential read and 500 MB / s sequential write, while the GT Force rises to 555 MB / s read and 505 MB / s write.

Samsung 830: SATA 6 Gbit/s for everyone

Samsung has announced the release "mainstream" of PM830, the SSD SATA 6 Gbit/s announced last week. The Samsung 830 Series will succeed the 470 Series and work with a SATA 6 Gbit/s, as many of its competitors. The design of the hull was treated (which is objectively not very important) and will offer the Samsung SSD in several capacities: 64 to 512 GB The controller used is based on two ARM cores and the memory type MLC, burned at 2x nm (between 20 and 29 nm ...).

Seagate has sold over 1 million Momentus Hybrid Solid State XT

Seagate has already sold its solid state device one millionth hybrid since the launch of Momentus XT in spring 2010. Leading manufacturers of computers, including Alienware, ASUS, Dell, Sony and Toshiba now offer laptops that include this type of hard drives, as they have speeds that compete with the SSD, but with greater capacity and lower prices.

The Momentus hybrid solid state drive XT is an album that runs at 7200 rpm and has up to 500GB capacity. His start is 50% faster than traditional disks at 5400 rpm and is a reference in the portable gaming benchmarks. Adaptive Technology Seagate is the key to the speed of these devices, optimizing their performance by moving the most used information in its internal memory of 4GB for a starter and access to frequently used applications faster.

SATA Express 16-Gbps SATA

The SATA-IO (Serial ATA International Organization, the body responsible for developing various standards SATA) is currently working on a new SATA, SATA called Express. The future standard is expected to achieve speeds of about 8 Gbps to 16 Gbps, while the current rises to SATA 6 Gbps. To reach such speeds, the standard SATA Express should follow the structure of the software but rely on the SATA PCI-Express 3.0.

1 million Seagate hybrid drives

Seagate has announced reaching the million mark record "hybrid" Momentus XT delivered. In 2.5-inch hybrid drive that was launched in May 2010. The Momentus XT includes a reminder a standard hard drive (with a capacity of 250 GB, 320 GB or 500 GB depending on the version) operating at 7200 RPM, 32 MB buffer memory and 4 GB of NAND flash SLC.

This combination theoretically improve the startup time of the computer and speed up the loading of applications, while providing a decent storage capacity at a rate lower than that of an equivalent capacity SSD. If we are to believe a study published by the institute IDC, hybrid discs should be included in a quarter of computers sold in 2015.

eBay buys 100 TB of flash memory

eBay has announced the purchase of a storage system for its Nimbus virtual server infrastructure. This storage system is composed entirely of flash memory and has a capacity of 100 TB of storage, which is pretty impressive. Currently, the standard is rather to use hybrid systems, consisting of "cache"-based flash memory, a storage unit with fast hard drives (15,000 rpm SAS type) and SATA hard drives standard for long-term storage.

The full 2.5-inch RAID at OWC

OWC manufacturer has added a number of models of mini external drives "RAID" in its range Mercury Elite Pro Dual. Displaying the dimensions of 144 x 154 x 28 mm, these compact external storage solutions boarded two hard drives - SSD or two - to 2.5-inches. Five new models are thus emerging: a version comprising two 640 GB hard drives of 320 GB (5400 rpm, 16MB cache) proposed at 159.99 dollars, a 1 TB version (two HDD 500 GB, 5400 rpm per minute, 16 MB cache) to 189.99 dollars, a version with two 240 GB SSD Mercury Electra 120 GB 6G (519.99 dollars), a 480 GB version (two 240 GB SSD, 1049.99 dollars) and finally a 960 GB version (two 480 GB SSD) appears to 1919.99 dollars.

The SAS will go to 12 gigabits/s

LSI has announced that tests on SAS controllers to 12 gigabits/s (1200 Mb/s) were inconclusive. The professional standard should (re) take the ascendancy over the SATA, pending a fourth version of the standard public. Remember that the SAS is for professional and SATA as SATA is an evolution "series" of SATA, the SAS is an evolution of SCSI (Serial Attached SCSI SAS means).

As with SCSI, which reached 320 Mb/s when the PATA struggled to reach 133 MB/s, the SAS was generally faster than SATA: 6 gigabits/s is the norm for a while and 12 gigabits/s happening. Unlike the SATA channel that is usually dedicated to a device, it is quite common SAS share a link between devices.

Western Digital updates its series of Velociraptor hard drives

Western Digital has announced the launch of two new series of his famous Velociraptor SATA interface which will have 3 (6Gbps). Like previous versions, it will be a hard disk 2.5 "built in" IcePack "3.5". These two new units (serial numbers and WD3000HLHX WD1500HLHX) run at 10,000 revolutions per minute and have a latency of just 3ms.

They feature a 32MB cache MTBF 1.4 million hours and an average speed of 126Mb/s. They have a 5 year warranty.

• Western Digital earnings fall by more than 40% (21/07/2011)
• Refurb Western Digital Livewire AV Powerline Network Kit for $60 + $6 s&h (26/07/2011)
• Seagate falls on forecast; Western Digital hit (21/07/2011)
• Western Digital 320GB Portable USB Hard Drive for $40 + free shipping (25/07/2011)
• Refurb Western Digital Livewire AV Powerline Network Kit for $70 + $6 s&h (21/07/2011)

Western Digital (homepage)  NYSE: WDC (googlefinance)  Western Digital (WDC) (wikinvest)  Western Digital (wikipedia)  Velociraptor (wikipedia)  

Mini dual-HDD NAS 2 TB Buffalo

Buffalo has just added a new LinkStation NAS to his family: the LS-WSX2.0TL/R1. Rather compact with dimensions of 40 x 82 x 135 mm, NAS carries two 1 TB hard drives in 2.5-inch, configured in RAID 0 for a total storage of 2 TB Gigabit Ethernet connectors Equipped with and USB 2.0 (but no USB 3.0 or eSATA), the NAS can act as a DLNA server or iTunes and can also support independently BitTorrent downloads.

Sandisk finally released new SSD

Sandisk, a precursor of flash memory and ever-present reference memory cards has completely missed the turn of the SSD "mass", is being overtaken by Samsung, Indilinx, Sandforce, Intel, Toshiba, short, almost all its competitors. But the company persevered and today launches its Ultra. Sandisk Ultra range includes three models of 60 GB, 120 GB and 240 GB, all in 2.5.

"Their sequential flow maximize their SATA 3 Gb/s: 280 MB/s read, 270MB/s write . remains to be seen in the performance of random accesses and small files. One thing is quite rare, Sandisk gives an indicative life for its SSDs. The 60 GB can support 40 TB of writing, 120 GB 80 TB and 240 GB TB 120 These figures are quite low compared to 600 To our SSD test cashed, but they correspond to the life of the flash memory more finely engraved modern.

Kingston Wi-Drive: SSD and WiFi USB

Revealed there are a couple of months for Kingston, Wi-Drive SSD is now available in both 16 GB and 32 GB Displaying the dimensions of 121.5 x 61.8 x 9.8 mm, the SSD has an external connector mini USB controller but also includes 802.11n WiFi. This SSD loads a battery providing a range of up to 4 hours.

Designed for iPad, iPhone (3G, 3G, 4G) and iPod touch (IOS allows an application to use it from an Apple product), this storage solution wireless should then also be compatible with devices and products running Android. Guaranteed one year, the Wi-Drive is currently posted at 129.99 dollars for the 16GB version and $ 179 for the 32GB model

• Kingston 256GB Internal 2.5″ SSD: $280 (26/07/2011)
• Kingston Wi-Drive, SSD Storage Without Wires (05/06/2011)
• Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate G2 USB 3.0 Flash drive (22/07/2011)
• Kingston outs fastest USB 3.0 flash drive to date (20/05/2011)
• Move files from Hard drive to SSD on Windows (26/07/2011)

Wi-Fi (wikipedia)  Universal Serial Bus (wikipedia)  Solid-state drive (wikipedia)  

Silicon Power V30: SandForce and SATA 6 Gbps

The manufacturer Silicon Power has announced the launch of the V30, an SSD controller SandForce shipping and using a SATA 6 Gbps. In conventional 2.5-inch, this SSD displays according to the manufacturer speeds of around 550 MB / s sequential read and 500 MB / s sequential write. Available in capacities of 60 GB, 120 GB, 240 GB and 480 GB, the V30 supports the TRIM command.

This SSD is finally delivered with a 3.5-inch adapter to mount in any location without casing 2.5 inches. Regrettably, however, that Silicon Power has not yet given the price and availability date of the SSD.

• RunCore outs T50 6Gb/s mSATA SSD, SandForce speeds included (15/07/2011)
• Computex 2011: SandForce mSATA Drives & No More Supercap (30/05/2011)
• Corsair Force Series 3 SSDs: SandForce speed for modest money (17/05/2011)
• Mushkin unveils Chronos SSDs with SandForce SF-2281 controller (08/06/2011)
• Six-Drive SATA III SSD Round-Up Shows Big Gains (13/07/2011)

SandForce (homepage)  SandForce (wikipedia)  Serial ATA (wikipedia)  

Western Digital updates its VelociRaptor

The manufacturer Western Digital is preparing the market entry of a new version of its VelociRaptor 150 GB and 300 GB Equipped with a 6 Gbps SATA interface and equipped with 32 MB cache, these new models are baptized and WD1500HLHX WD3000HLHX. They still work at 10 000 rpm, are offered in 3.5-inch (hard drives themselves are 2.5 inches, but they are integrated into a rack mount format 3.5 inch) display an access time of 3 ms.

Gigabyte: a 1.8-inch external hard drive 160 GB

The 1.8-inch hard drives are not dead! If they are only rarely used in music players and the majority of ultraportables pass SSD, 1.8-inch models are always of interest to external hard drives: they are compact and offer a correct capacity now. Gigabyte with its A2 Tiny, has understood: it has a compact hard drive - 80 grams, 78 x 59 x 13 mm - which offers greater capacity than USB, 160 GB We are here far from a , 5 To the best 2.5-inch, but the size is not the same.

LaCie Rugged Min

LaCie gave a little brother to his mobile hard "hardened" the Rugged. Welcome to the Rugged Mini, more compact (volume down 40%) but still strong. The Rugged Mini is always a cache HDD 2.5 "in its hull capacity between 500 GB and 1 TB always made of aluminum and rubber, it is supposed to withstand shocks, drops, rain and crushing (1 t pressure).

The interface is only USB 3.0, which is more than enough to drive a 2.5 ".

• LaCie reduced Rugged HDD size not capacity (20/07/2011)
• LaCie's Rugged Mini is rugged, also mini (video) (19/07/2011)
• LaCie's Rugged Mini External Hard Drive Is Not Large (19/07/2011)
• Brawny Badass Hard Drives - The LaCie Rugged Mini Will Take All Sorts of Punishment & Deliver (TrendHunter.com) (20/07/2011)
• LaCie says Thunderbolt Little Big Disk 'delay' a mix-up (18/07/2011)

LaCie (homepage)  LaCie (wikipedia)  Mini (wikipedia)  

Seagate SSD of 800 GB SAS 6 gigabits/s

Seagate has announced that its SSD Pulsar.2 were sent to dealers, we should see them arrive in stores by the end of the month. The range includes several models and several types of SSD. Pulsar.2 the use of MLC memory and four capacities are available: 100, 200, 400 and 800 GB capacity in each, there are SAS versions 6 gigabits/s and SATA 6 Gbit/s, except for Model 800 GB which exists only in SAS.

SandForce in the MSAT: 16 to 120 GB

At Computex, the SSD-based SandForce in MSAT had been presented. RunCore, atypical solutions specialist, proposes a complete range of SSD in this format, with a capacity ranging from 16 to 120 GB The MSAT, remember, is a physical format that transmits a signal to a SATA connector identical to that used in the cards Mini Card.

SSD in MSAT thus resembles a Wi-Fi card for laptop - for example - but instead of transmitting the PCI-Express and USB 2.0, SATA is working. Standardized, the MSAT is particularly used in the Chromebook Samsung and some Intel to integrate SSD as "cache." RunCore proposes a complete range.

Corsair Launches SSD Force GT SATA 6 Gbps

Corsair has announced the launch of its SSD Force GT models with 2.5-inch carrying a SandForce SF-2280 controller and NAND flash memory chips MLC. Equipped with a 6 Gbps SATA interface, the display according to the manufacturer SSD speeds of around 555 MB / s read and 525 MB / s sequential write. In 4K random reads, the performance reached 85,000 IOPS.

The MTBF rises for its 2 million hours. Guaranteed for life, the Force GT is expected in July in the 60 GB version ($ 149) and 120GB ($ 279). A 240 GB version should then also make an appearance.

• Corsair Force Series 3 SSDs: SandForce speed for modest money (17/05/2011)
• Corsair F120 SSD Overview (09/04/2011)
• Corsair recalls its 120GB Force 3 SSD due to 'stability issues' (08/06/2011)
• Corsair brings out extra-fast Force Series 3 SSDs (16/05/2011)
• Corsair recalls, stops shipments of 120GB Force 3 SSDs (08/06/2011)

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