Solid State Drives...

by **powerarmour** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:57 am

impar wrote:
OCZ releases Vertex, Agility, Solid2 firmware update
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Designed for Vertex, Agility and Solid2 drives made after December 2009, the update brings the firmware version to 3.55 and adds additional over-provisioning to the drives in order to boost performance and increase longevity. The result is a loss in usable capacity from 119.24GB on firmware 1.7 to 111.79GB with 3.55, but a boost in sequential write speeds from 187.44MB/s to 216MB/s.

Destructive update though!, but a lovely boost for old tech =D>

by **impar** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:23 am

Greetings!

Intel 330 solid-state drives listed early
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It also says the SSD will sport 25-nm NAND flash memory, a 500MB/s top sequential read speed, a 450MB/s top sequential write speed, and a three-year warranty.
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http://techreport.com/discussions.x/22733

by **impar** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:34 pm

Greetings!

Intel SSD 313 Series Launched

Details on Intel SSD 330 Series

The actual controller is unknown but the capacities hint towards SandForce. That would make sense because Intel has spent a lot time and money on their SandForce driven 520 Series. The only part of the equation that doesn't make sense is the performance. We are used to seeing 550MB/s read and 500MB/s write on SandForce SSDs but the specifications we have seen so far show something else. The interesting part here is whether this is hardware or firmware related. We will have to wait and see.

by **powerarmour** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:57 pm

OCZ Vertex 4 Review (256GB, 512GB) :-

http://www.anandtech.com/print/5719

by **impar** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:32 pm

Greetings!

- OCZ's Vertex 4 solid-state drive

by **impar** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:21 am

Greetings!

The Plextor M3 (256GB) Review
Plextor as a brand is probably a new acquaintance for most people and I have to admit that I had not heard of Plextor until a couple of months ago. Plextor is more known for their optical disk drives but roughly two years ago, they entered the SSD market. Plextor is now at its third generation of SSDs and we have finally got the chance of reviewing their latest offering: The M3. Based on Marvell's 88SS9174-BLD2 controller, the M3 is a direct competitor to Crucial's popular m4 series. Both obviously utilize in-house firmwares, which can lead to big differences in performance.

by **impar** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:54 am

Greetings!

Kingston HyperX 3K (240GB) SSD Review

With OCZ intent on moving as much volume to its in-house Indilinx controllers as possible, SandForce (now LSI) needed to expand to additional partners. OCZ has strong control over the channel so SandForce needed to turn to multiple partners to diversify its portfolio. One key win for SandForce was Kingston.

by **Tabajara** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:36 am

It's square. It's shiny. It's a new SSD drive:

Micron C400 mSATA (128GB) SSD Review

Plot twist: this one is mSATA. Something tells me PA likes it that way. :mrgreen: