Storage

by Rafael Hernandez on March 30, 2009 · 0 comments

The solid state drive market is beginning to see a slew of new products and with it being a relatively new market the first goes at the technology will likely encounter a few bugs to be worked out.Intel and OCZ…

Read more State Of The SSD, Intel And OCZ Get The Firmwares Out

by Pedro Hernandez on March 27, 2009 · 1 comment

Look at what popped up on eBay, a 4 GB USB flash drive in the shape of a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Awesome! Not so awesome is the $140+ bid to take it home as of this writing ….

Read more Awesome, Pricey Canon EOS 5D USB Drive

by Pedro Hernandez on March 24, 2009 · 0 comments

Microsoft’s nifty network-attached storage server for home use is getting an update today. Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 lets owners squeeze a little more functionality out of their centralized data repository, particularly in the media streaming category. The updates…

Read more Windows Home Server Goes Stream Happy with Power Pack 2

by Rafael Hernandez on March 20, 2009 · 0 comments

If you’re putting together an enterprise level server odds are you’re going to be doing something that’ll be thrashing your storage space quite a bit. AnandTech has a look at how solid state disk, serial attached SCSI, and plain old…

Read more SSD Versus Enterprise Level Hard Drives, A Tad Overkill For The Desktop

by Rafael Hernandez on March 13, 2009 · 0 comments

Solid state drives have been gaining plenty of attention as of late, what with their performance, power consumption, durability, and silent running being major selling points. Some drives are quicker than others though so Driver Heaven has run some tests…

Read more SSD Roundup, The Performance Party

by Rafael Hernandez on March 12, 2009 · 0 comments

While the promises of speedy solid state drives have been long promised there has been very little movement in bringing those devices to market leaving the consumer to cobble together primitive RAID setups to bring about such performance. Fusion-io’s ioDrive…

Read more Fusion-io Builds A SSD So Speedy Your Server Wants One Posthaste

by Pedro Hernandez on March 12, 2009 · 0 comments

After dropping flash drives into its Sun Storage 7000 storage arrays, Sun is now eyeing “Flash Driven” rack and blade application servers for the fast performing and energy efficient data storage technology. Sure, they cost more than servers with…

Read more Sun Debuts Flash-y Servers

by Rafael Hernandez on March 9, 2009 · 0 comments

The marketing types should keep the tech geeks locked safely away in their offices when it comes time to demonstrating their product’s capabilities, then again it does make for a show that other geek types will appreciate. Samsung’s SSD unit…

Read more Samsung SSD Awesomeness, Or A Really Cheesey Tech Demo

by Rafael Hernandez on March 8, 2009 · 0 comments

The ever increasing amounts of storage space being crammed into ye olde hard drive does wonders for people with lots of files to store, or those trying to consolidate years of drive purchases. Western Digital’s Caviar Green WD20EADS packs in…

Read more Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EADS, 2TB Of Storage Fun

by Rafael Hernandez on March 6, 2009 · 0 comments

There are very few pieces of hardware that instantly catch your attention and have you slobbering drool all over yourself within a few seconds of realizing what it can do, OCZ’s Z-Drive is one such piece of hardware. The company…

Read more OCZ SSD Z-Drive, Yeah You Want One

by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2009 · 0 comments

The solid state disk’s days as a niche product held back by tiny storage sizes may soon be over. G.Skill’s TITAN 256GB SSD drive pushes the storage and speed envelope while keeping prices at a reasonable enough level where it…

Read more G.Skill TITAN 256GB SSD, Tempting Isn't It