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Archive for category Storage
Intel and Micron SSD Reviews
Playing a bit of catch-up due to an issue that sprang up during my server migration:
AnandTech has posted reviews for two new versions of SSDs from major players:
Intel SSD 320 – While write performance is improved, it’s price and performance don’t match up with the new SandForce products.
Micron C400 / Crucial M4 – Slightly slower read speeds then the C300 and relatively lax garbage collection means for most users SandForce based products will be a better choice.
AnandTech Preview of the OCZ Vertex 3
AnandTech has posted a preview of the OCZ Vertex 3 showing it may be actually slightly faster than the much more expensive enterprise pro version for most users. Retail pricing will be at $250 for 128 GB and $500 for 256 GB.
Intel SSD Launch Date Anounced / Vertex 3 Pro Previewed
VR-Zone posts that Intel will launch their 510 Series SSDs on March 1st with capacities of 120 GB ($280) and 250 GB ($580).
Meanwhile Tom’s Hardware has posted a preview of OCZ’2 Vertex 3 Pro (100 GB – $525, 200 GB – $775, 400 GB – $1350). While the Pro line seems to be quite impressive it will be interesting to see how the regular Vertex 3 will perform that OCZ has stated will cost significantly less.
Corsair P3 SSD Preview
Legit Reviews posted a preview of Corsair latest SSD drives. In RAID 0 a pair of them hit over 880 MB/s read. No word on price though.
Next Generation SSD Announcements Start
While we still haven’t heard anything from Intel officially when they will release their next generation drives, both SandForce SF-2000 (OCZ Vertex Pro 3) and Micron RealSSD C400 have been demoed. The C400 promises 400+ MB/s reads sometime in February while the OCZ Vertex Pro 3 is boasting 500+ MB/s reads sometime 2nd quarter of this year.
OCZ IBIS HSDL SSD Preview
HotHardware has posted a preview of OCZ’s new high performance SSD line that uses a new HSDL interface to get around the limits of the SATA interface. The drives appear to be fairly expensive even for SSDs, but very fast. The 240 GB version is estimated to go for $739. Check the article for additional details.
OCZ Announces New SandForce Based “Value” SSDs
Engadget posted this article linking to OCZ’s press release regarding the release of their new Onyx 2 drives. At $189.99 for the 120 GB model and $439.99 for the 240 GB model, it looks like SSDs that have decent capacity at somewhat affordable prices are well on their way.
Need 700 MB/s of SSD Goodness?
Hot Hardware just posted a preview of the OCZ RevoDrive X2. It is a PCI-E card with 4 SandForce SSDs RAIDed together. According to early numbers it is capable of over 700 MB/s and 100,000 IOPs. No mention of cost though.
Seagate Reveals Hybrid SSD / HDD
AnandTech has a post about Seagate’s new Momentus XT hybrid drive. It is a notebook hard drive combined with a small 4 GB SSD used for read caching. The results overall are pretty good especially for notebooks that often don’t have more than one drive bay available to do a separate SSD and HDD combination. It won’t beat a decent pure SSD, but for normal day to day use it will still be generally faster than any single hard disk drive.
For more information, see AnandTech’s article here.
Seagate Confirms 3 TB Hard Drives at the End of the Year
Seagate has confirmed that it is planning on releasing a 3 TB hard drive at the end of the year.
A THINKQ post goes into some of the details (and potential problems) of the drive.