Solid State Drives...

[powerarmour]

Corsair Performance Series Pro (256GB) Review :-

http://www.anandtech.com/print/5785

[Seawolf]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820227728
Damn, the M4 64 is still $85

[impar]

Greetings!

OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB and 512 GB Solid State Drives Review
About a month ago OCZ launched a completely new family of high-performance SSDs based around the proprietary Indilinx Everest 2 controller, and very recently they released new firmware version 1.4 for it, which was supposed to increase its speed even more. Will this make Vertex 4 the fastest consumer grade SSD with SATA 6 Gbps interface? Let’s find out!

Solid-state revolution: in-depth on how SSDs really work

[Seawolf]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5912/tosh ... nd-is-here

On top of the brand new controller, Toshiba is also using their own state of the art 19nm Toggle-Mode 2.0 MLC NAND. Some of Toshiba's 24nm NAND used Toggle-Mode 2.0 interface as well so it's not brand new, but at 400MB/s it's faster than what ONFi can provide at this point. Toshiba is in fact the first SSD company to announce SSDs based on sub-20nm NAND, though we should start seeing 64Gb 20nm IMFT NAND soon unless Intel and Micron have issues with the new process node.

[impar]

Greetings!

Corsair Introduces Link a Media based Neutron SSDs

[Tabajara]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5912/toshiba-announces-thnsnf-series-ssds-19nm-nand-is-here

On top of the brand new controller, Toshiba is also using their own state of the art 19nm Toggle-Mode 2.0 MLC NAND. Some of Toshiba's 24nm NAND used Toggle-Mode 2.0 interface as well so it's not brand new, but at 400MB/s it's faster than what ONFi can provide at this point. Toshiba is in fact the first SSD company to announce SSDs based on sub-20nm NAND, though we should start seeing 64Gb 20nm IMFT NAND soon unless Intel and Micron have issues with the new process node.

The interesting twist is that a new process is not all fun and games as with CPUs; smaller flash cells also have a decreased capability to be rewritten. This wasn't mentioned in the announcement, but unless new techniques are used this generation won't last as long as the 3x nm and 2x nm drives.

[impar]

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ADATA XPG SX900 (128GB) Review: Maximizing SandForce Capacity
SandForce sets aside more NAND capacity than most controllers for spare area. While Intel, Marvell, Samsung and others default to ~7% of total NAND capacity for spare area, SandForce is almost double that. The difference boils down to RAISE, SandForce's NAND redundancy algorithm that requires the consumption of a full NAND die. The original idea was that RAISE and SandForce's DuraWrite technology could allow SSD vendors to use cheaper, less reliable NAND without any impact to the end user. It seems as though no one was willing to risk using anything but the best NAND, so we never really saw this feature exploited. A bit over a month ago, ADATA released their XPG SX900 series. It utilizes the oh-so-common SF-2281 controller but unlike other SandForce SSDs, RAISE is disabled - giving the end user more usable space.
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[powerarmour]

Intel Discovers SandForce SF-2281 Controller Can't Do AES-256 Encryption, Offers Return Program :-

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5971/inte ... rn-program

Oops...

[impar]

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[thegrommit]

Intel Discovers SandForce SF-2281 Controller Can't Do AES-256 Encryption, Offers Return Program :-

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5971/inte ... rn-program

Oops...

LOL. I'm not sure who comes off looking worse here. Intel for not catching this in their validation of the controller, or sandforce for not knowing/revealing this in the first place.