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SSD/Storage News (english)

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WD Enters the SSD Market March 30, 2009 - Western Digital has entered the SSD market by acquiring SiliconSystems for $65 million in a cash transaction. "WD's strong balance sheet, sales reach, and operations and logistics capabilities will allow us to greatly accelerate our penetration of our existing markets, while combining our engineering expertise with WD will enable us to develop new solid-state drives to broaden o..
New PCIe SSD Aims at PC Acceleration Market March 26, 2009 - Mobile Mode has unveiled a PCIe SSD for the Vista / XP market - the G-Monster-PCIe Turbo Speed SSD - expected to ship in June. Capacity options include:- 256GB, 512GB and 1TB. Both MLC and SLC options are available. The flash array includes onboard RAID protection. R/W speeds are quoted as 750MB/s and 700MB/s respectively. Editor's comments:- Until now -there has been a theoreti..
Hagiwara Unveils CFast Storage Card March 26, 2009 - Hagiwara Sys-Com has extended its range of 1" SSDs - with the launch of the CFast Storage Card which will ship in Q2. These industrial grade SSDs are form factor compatible with CF cards, but have a SATA interface. Capacities range from 2GB to 16GB.
Compellent Inches Slowly Closer to SAN Acceleration Market March 23, 2009 - Compellent today announced it would demonstrate its tiered SSD technology at a user event in May 2009. The physical layer is based on STEC's ZeusIOPS SSDs. The soft part - something which Compellent calls - policy driven Data Progression apparently " minimizes the number of SSDs required while providing the highest levels of performance for mission-critical applications." Editor..
Samsung Ships Highest Density DDR3 Seoul, Korea - March 19, 2009 - Samsung Electronics announced today that it has just made the initial shipment of the world's 1st and smallest high-density memory modules based on 2Gb, 50nm-class DDR3. Samsung is shipping 18 configurations of its new DDR3-based modules, which are designed for servers. They include a 16GB RIMM and an 8GB RDIMM. Editor's comments:- although Samsung's press release..
IDEMA Names Sun's Flash Guru to Lead SSD Standards March 18, 2009 - IDEMA today announced that Michael Cornwell will lead its standards program for HDDs and SSDs. Cornwell, the Lead Technologist for Flash at Sun Microsystems since 2007, has a long history in storage technologies and collaboration between manufacturers and customers. He spent 5 years with Quantum in various engineering and design roles. In 2002 he moved to Apple, where he was a l..
MemoRight Shoots for MIL-STD-810F SSD Market Shenzhen, China - March 18, 2009 - MemoRight says it will ship new industrial grade 2.5" flash SSDs in May. The new MemoRight rSSD is designed to operate from -40 to 85 degrees C and the company says its testing processes satisfy MIL-STD-810F. MemoRight expects the military, defense, aviation & astronautics industries to be early adopters and key users of their new SSD. The rSSD also features Me..
EMC says - it's Leading the SSD Charge - (is it April 1st already?) March 18, 2009 - EMC announced today it has qualified higher capacity 400GB flash SSDs for use in its storage systems. Barbara Robidoux, EMC VP, Storage Marketing, said, "It is clear that Enterprise Flash drives are revolutionizing the way information is stored and EMC is leading the charge. We are delivering the 2nd generation of this technology as a result of significant investments in researc..