SSD CONTROLLERS USUALLY have one winner per generation, and it looks like this time Sandforce is the dominant player. The company released two new controllers today, and set a few records with them for good measure.
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THERE WAS A story at Digitimes about a week ago about ASMedia, an Asus subsidiary getting ready to launch its own USB 3.0 host controller, which went on to suggest that Asus was getting ready to move away from NEC/Renesas and go with its controller instead. We can now confirm that Asus is indeed going to start implementing the ASMedia controller on some of its upcoming motherboard models.
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IF YOU’RE a regular reader of SemiAccurate, then you’ll know that we put a question forward to the USB Implementers Forum with regards to how they certify the various USB 3.0 implementations and if they perform any kind of speed testing. We were slightly taken aback by the answer, that no performance testing is done during the certification process, so we decided to dig a little deeper to find out if there are any differences between the various implementations on the market.
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SUPER TALENT MIGHT not be the most well known brand when it comes to SSDs, but the company has been coming out with some interesting products and was one of the first to show off a PCI Express based SSD. However, its latest products are going after those who would like to get an SSD but have a really tight budget.
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DATA ROBOTICS GAINED a lot of interest from both the media and the public when it launched its first Drobo product a few years ago, as its BeyondRAID technology made it easy for the general consumer to get an external, expandable storage solution. Now the company is back with a solution that offers the same features, but with network connectivity, namely the Drobo FS.
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YOU MIGHT HAVE noticed a little USB logo on most, if not all of your USB devices that tells you what kind it is, be it bog standard USB, Hi-Speed or now SuperSpeed USB. During today’s USB-IF developer’s conference we put forward the question to the USB-IF, which is the organization behind these logos that certify that your device is USB compliant, with regards to performance testing and what the requirements are.
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HERE’S AN ODD one for you, it seems like Buffalo has noticed that there’s a problem fitting certain SSD’s into notebooks due to the shape. Hence the company came up with a solution, an SSD that mimics a traditional hard drive in terms of shape. It really sounds stranger than it is, but it’ll all make sense once you see the picture of the new SSD past the break.
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INTEL IS PUSHING its Atom processor heavily into every conceivable market and the company is doing a big push towards the small business storage market space with its Bandon platform. Some of these NAS devices can do more than just back up your data which should prove to be a neat bonus to smaller companies.
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DURING THE INTEL Storage Solution Forums yesterday, the company was keen to point out that from next year we’ll see widespread adoption of 10Gbit Ethernet in the server environment. The main reason for this coming uptake in 10Gbit Ethernet according to Intel is that it will launch a transceiver that will be implemented on server motherboards, rather than needing an add-on card.
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EARLIER TODAY WE attended the Intel Storage Solutions Forum 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan where Intel was presenting various technologies that it has or is developing that are meant to improve the way we deal with large amounts of data. The products range from home users to small business and all the way to the corporate sector.
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DESPTITE LACK OF support from both Intel and AMD, it seems that USB 3.0 is set to be something of a hit. NEC has announced that it has so far shipped no less than 3 million of its USB 3.0 controllers and that it’s getting ready to ramp up production.
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INTEL WON BACK most of the lead that AMD had earned in the server market with the Conroe and Penryn generation of CPUs, and erased the rest with the Nehalem generation. Today marks the release of Westmere-EP, the 6 core 32nm update to Nehalem, and the Intel lead just gets wider.
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IT APPEARS THAT the SSD price war has finally started, at least on the entry level end of the market. Intel has announced that it is dropping the price for its entry level X25-V 40GB drive to an affordable $125, which appears to be a pretty good deal.
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ALTHOUGH A HANDFUL of USB 3.0 thumb drives have made it on to the market, it appears that they’re not as easy to make as one would at first think. It’s still early days of the USB 3.0 interface, although we’re starting to see a steady stream of USB 3.0 devices and most of them are hard drive related.
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SOLID STATE DRIVES or SSDs are one of the hottest topics and add-ons that you can get for your PC now, although there’s still a lot of confusion going on with regards to what to get, as there are vast differences between the various models and the cost per GB is fairly high.
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