The Open Nand Flash Interface Working Group might not be one of the most prominent specification promoters in the business, but there’s a slow move towards using NAND Flash with ONFI interface in the industry, especially in SSDs.
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OCZ Technologies has just announced that they are buying Indilinx, one of the first makers of SSD and related flash controllers.
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THERE’S NO SECRET that Western Digital have been on the lookout to buy one of its competitors for quite some time and it has now happened, as the company has made an agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, also known as HGST.
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LSI was showing off their second generation SAS6 controllers at CeBIT, and a few related devices that will make storage fly. Faster is always better, and SAS6 sure delivers the speed.
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OCZ has the largest SSD I have seen to date, it starts at 4TB, and goes up from there, way up, as far as a 32TB RAID from a single card.
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Thermaltake had no less than 6 new cases, two of which are quite significant designs. The best of them is a new variant of their amazing Level 10 chassis, something that many enthusiasts have been hoping for.
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RECENT RUMOURS HAVE suggested that Intel will launch its first SATA 6Gbps SSD’s on Tuesday, at least in some countries, although so far there has been no official word on the matter from Intel.
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EARLIER TODAY APPLE announced its new MacBook Pro notebooks featuring Thunderbolt I/O , a newly developed interface by Intel and Apple which was previously known as Light Peak. Now things didn’t quite develop as what was said when Intel previewed the technology during IDF, as instead of using optical cables and a USB port like interface, Thunderbolt in Apple’s implementation uses copper wires and a mini DisplayPort interface.
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ACER IS JUMPING back into the server market in a big way with the launch of six separate lines of products and a comprehensive support network. This is not just a simple launch, Acer is taking the server market very seriously, intending to mirror their success in laptops and desktops.
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AT CES, HITACHI GST was showing off some unique enterprise SSDs, both in terms of form factor and interface. Like most others at CES, Hitachi also showed off a 3TB 7200RPM Deskstar, proving that magnetic drives are still alive and kicking.
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ANYONE INTERESTED IN getting an SSD have been looking forward to more affordable 2Xnm Flash memory as it’s been promising lower prices for consumers for the same size drives, but now it seems like things might not be as rosy as first thought, at least not if Corsair is right. The company has posted a long statement on its blog explaining the difference between 34nm Flash and 25nm Flash and it suggests that the newer 25nm ICs aren’t as reliable as the older 34nm ICs.
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INTEL IS SET to upgrade its line of SSD drives come March the 1st and it’ll be Intel’s first entry into the SATA 6Gbps SSD market space. Although the new SSD’ will be using Intel’s first SATA 6Gbps SSD controller, they won’t get new NAND Flash quite yet, as these consumer focused 510 series drives will continue using older 34nm NAND Flash.
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AS SOON AS a chipmaker announces a new chip, the OEMs and ODMs come out with new products to support that part. In this case, Tyan has a new board and barebones system for the refreshed Opteron 6100 chips.
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GIVEN THE PROBLEMS that Intel’s Cougar Point chipset had this week, it is no surprise that some across the internet are taking pot-shots at the company. Usually these come in rant form, but this time, we get one as a song.
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HYBRID DRIVES HAVE as yet to really take off and we’ve seen a few DIY solutions to date from various smaller industry players, but now HighPoint has come up with a couple of solutions of its own that might have some appeal. The company has announced a pair of host bus adapters (HBAs) called the RocketHybrid that will allow users to create their own DIY hybrid drive.
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