The holiday season is one of the busiest shopping seasons of all year. As it can be the lifesaver (or destroyer) of company's financials, having a competitive product lineup is extremely important. OCZ's offering for the performance orientated holiday shoppers is the Vector 150. It's based on the same Barefoot 3 controller as the original Vector and Vertex 450 but with the Vector 150 OCZ went with Toshiba's 19nm MLC NAND. With the market's and OCZ's focus being performance consistency, can the Vector 150 keep up with the competition? Read on to find out!
Promise Technology Announces Pegasus2 and SANLink2 Thunderbolt 2 Products
We’ve seen Thunderbolt products from Promise before, and we’ve even heard about some of their upcoming Thuderbolt 2 offerings. Today, Promise is formally announcing four upcoming Thunderbolt 2 products...
30 by Jarred Walton on 10/25/2013
Synology Introduces Media-Centric DS214play
Synology has been pretty busy introducing its 2014 models over the last couple of weeks. While the DS214 was, in my opinion, a run-of-the-mill product (not taking away any...
18 by Ganesh T S on 10/22/2013
QNAP Launches 10 GbE-Capable TS-x70 Tower Series Turbo NAS
10 GbE capability in off-the-shelf NAS units have most remained in the realm of rackmount models. Today, QNAP is introducing the TS-x70 series desktop pedestal models with this capability...
16 by Ganesh T S on 10/11/2013
Western Digital Sentinel Lineup Updated with Xeon-Based Ultra-Compact Servers
Western Digital's SMB / enterprise network storage lineup (the Sentinel series) has been based on the Microsoft Windows Storage Server platform. The most recent update to the Sentinel lineup...
10 by Ganesh T S on 10/10/2013
Synology Refreshes RackStation Lineup with RS2414+ and RS2414RP+
Synology launched two new 2U RackStations (the RS2414+ amd RS2414RP+) today. These are the first units with a full 12 bays available in the main unit itself (Their current...
5 by Ganesh T S on 10/8/2013
QNAP Launches SAS-Enabled Turbo NAS Units, Updates QTS 4.0 OS
QNAP is on a roll lately, with the launch of five new business-class Turbo NAS models supporting both SAS and SATA drives. These models are all rackmounts. While the...
2 by Ganesh T S on 10/3/2013
Western Digital Launches My Cloud Consumer NAS Platform
The network attached storage market is growing by leaps and bounds. While the SMB (small and medium business) / enterprise market is driven by speed, IOPS and concurrent access...
25 by Ganesh T S on 10/2/2013
Corsair Force LS (240GB) Review
Like many manufacturers without a NAND fab or controller technology, Corsair's SSD portfolio has focused a lot on SandForce based SSDs, but lately Corsair has been exploring other options...
30 by Kristian Vättö on 9/25/2013
SanDisk Announces Optimized iNAND Extreme eMMC for Bay Trail
We've started looking more closely at the embedded storage used in smartphones and tablets, and have mostly come away disappointed. Thankfully there appears to be some progress being made...
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Hardware Tricks: How to Not Fix a Crashed Hard Drive
Earlier this year, I posted a short story and video of my attempt at – and success – repairing a Gateway notebook that was suffering a Code 43 GPU...
57 by Jarred Walton on 9/13/2013
Intel's SSD Pro 1500: SF-2281 with vPro Support, Aimed at OEMs/SIs
IDF 2013 is almost upon us, and Intel's NSG (NAND Solutions Group) is kicking off the pre-show with a new SSD announcement. The drive in question? Intel's SSD Pro...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/9/2013
Seagate's Ultra Mobile HDD: Putting HDDs in Android Tablets
In a move I honestly never thought would happen, Seagate is announcing today plans to brings its 5mm 2.5" Laptop Ultrathin HDD to Android tablets. The drive will come...
41 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/9/2013
Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic Recording
It's not just planar NAND that's running into physical limits lately. According to Seagate, its latest 1TB platter 3.5" drives have shrunk read/write heads as small as they can...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/9/2013
Samsung’s V-NAND: Hitting the Reset Button on NAND Scaling
SSD pricing has come down tremendously since Intel’s X25-M hit the scene in 2008. Back then we were talking about 80GB for around $600, while today Micron and Samsung...
40 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/21/2013
Samsung SSD 840 EVO Review: 120GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB & 1TB Models Tested
I'm continually amazed by Samsung's rise to power in the SSD space. If you compare their market dominating products today to what we were reviewing from Samsung just a...
116 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/25/2013
OCZ Announces ZD-XL PCIe SQL Accelerator SSD Solution
About a year and a half ago OCZ announced the acquisition of Sanrad, an enterprise storage solutions company with experience in flash caching. Today we see some of the...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/23/2013
Micron Announces 16nm 128Gb MLC NAND, SSDs in 2014
Earlier today Micron announced its first 16nm MLC NAND device. The 128Gbit device is architecturally identical to the current 20nm/128Gbit 2-bit-per-cell MLC device that's shipping today but smaller. That...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/16/2013
Addonics Secure NAS R5 - A NAS / DAS Combo for the Security-Conscious
The number of readers requesting for encryption benchmarks after reading our NAS reviews has shown an uptick in the recent past. For consumers paranoid about security, Addonics is launching...
4 by Ganesh T S on 6/29/2013
Strontium Hawk (240GB) Review
Strontium is probably a new acquaintance for many of our readers, but their story may be familiar. Founded in 2002 in Singapore, Strontium is one of the many memory...
28 by Kristian Vättö on 6/25/2013
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