THERMALTAKE HAS A new line of esports accessories called, strangely enough, TT esports By Thermaltake. While this may seem like an odd departure for the company, TT hasn’t slowed down on their traditional mainstays.
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PHOTOFAST IS ABOUT to release a high capacity and hugely fast PCIe based SSD called the GM-PowerDrive-LSI. If you are thinking it sounds like four RAIDed high speed SSDs coupled to an industrial strength RAID controller, you are on the right track.
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SUPERTALENT HAS ANNOUNCED something a little bit unexpected, no, not the fact that it has a new USB 3.0 flash drive, as this in itself is nothing too special, but what is surprising is the super low price.
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THE FIRST REVODRIVE from OCZ impressed in terms of performance relative to value for money. However, it had one major flaw, you couldn’t boot from it. OCZ has now corrected this slight problem with its second generation RevoDrive X2 which is not only bootable, but is faster and available in larger capacities.
UPDATED: 1 November 2010
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WE DID EXPECT to see some third party SSD upgrades for Apple’s new MacBook Air, but we didn’t expect it to come from Taiwanese PhotoFast. In all fairness, the company has shifted some of its focus towards becoming an Apple accessory company, and its GM2 SFV1 Air upgrade kit (for the MacBook Air) falls nicely in-between this and its SSD product line.
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TWO SMALL LARGE flash memory devices came out this week, pushing the bounds of packaging. Kingston now has a 32GB microSD card, and SuperTalent crammed 64GB into their Pico-C format.
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IN A SHOCK to no one, SandForce announced the SF-2000 family of SATA3 SSD controllers. These new parts basically double throughput, and add a few new features as well.
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WESTERN DIGITAL HAS joined the 3TB drive club with their new My Book Essential external HD. If you are thinking that this is simply a 3TB drive slapped into an existing USB2/3 case, you would be right.
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THERE’S NO SECRET that Intel is working on a new range of SSD drives where the new consumer orientated drives oddly enough are listed as a refresh of the current Postville or X25-M G2 drives that Intel is currently selling. The third generation of X25-M brings a lot to the table, such as improved performance, larger capacity and potentially even lower pricing.
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THERE HAS BEEN a lot of talk about hybrid storage solutions which incorporate an SSD element. So far, both Seagate and Samsung have launched hard drives with a small SSD used as a kind of cache to help boost the performance. Now HLDS or Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc. (as they’re also known) is getting ready to launch its own solution, although the company claims to already be on the second generation of its Hybrid Drive.
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ARE YOU PREPARED for the next revolution in Flash memory for your mobile devices? Well, JEDEC hopes so, as they’re getting ready to announce a new Flash memory standard later this year with at least a few industry heavy weights backing the new Universal Flash Storage standard, or UFS as it’s more likely to be known as.
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TI WAS SHOWING off a bunch of USB3 goodies at IDF, with hubs, cards and a re-transmission chip on the, err, cards. Some are USB certified, others will be soon.
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INPHI WAS SHOWING off working 32GB LRDIMMs at IDF this year, upping maxing the memory of a Nehalem-EP system with only 2/3rds of the slots filled. If you want more than a mere 384GB in your box, you can up that to up that to 8TB of DRAM with an 8-way Beckton box.
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KINGSTON WAS SHOWING off three goodies at IDF, a USB3 SSD, the final version of water cooled DRAMs, and last, but not least, a USB3 memory stick. If you don’t think USB3 is worth it, read on.
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IT HAD TO happen sooner or later, Intel is starting to put out 25nm flash chips. At IDF last week, prototype chips were spotted on a prototype drive with a prototype Sandforce SSD controller.
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