News

• Samsung mass produces 1.4GB/s PCIe flash cards

  Samsung has started mass shipments of its XP941 PCIe flash drive, a card for untra-slim notebooks that delivers a sequential read performance of 1,400MB/s throughput.

• Nationwide makes SSDs standard on PCs, to employee applause

  Nationwide Insurance is moving off Windows XP and the misery of an eight-minute boot-up time for some 40,000 users.

• The new MacBook Air gets a 45 per cent performance boost with PCIe flash

  Apple has slipped new superfast PCIe flash into its thinnest of thin notebooks -- the new MacBook Air models released on Monday

• HP adds purpose-built all-flash array to 3Par lineup

  Hewlett-Packard will extend its 3Par enterprise storage line into flash-only territory this week, promising to combine higher speed with familiar software.

• Intel shows 'world's fastest thumb drive'

  Intel is showing off what it called the "world's fastest thumb drive," which uses Thunderbolt technology to provide breakthrough data transfer speeds compared to flash drives that plug into USB ports.

• Dell combines faster and cheaper SSDs in one box, with automatic tiering

  Many enterprise storage systems include two or more types of hard disk drives, with data automatically moved between those two tiers of storage. The same concept has now been applied to two types of SSDs.

• Samsung hits high gear, rolls out densest flash chip

  Samsung today announced it is now mass-producing a 3-bit per cell, sub-20 nanometer class NAND flash chip that is the densest memory to date.

• WD releases first 12Gbps SAS SSDs

  WD subsidiary HGST today released the world's first 12Gbps SAS and Fibre Channel SSD line, which sport top speeds of 1,200MB/s.

• Intel doubles speed of Thunderbolt interconnect

  Intel has doubled the speed of the Thunderbolt data transfer technology, which will soon shuttle data between host computers like Macs and peripherals at a rate of 20G bps (bits per second).

• Fusion-io releases 1.6TB flash card, HP preps workstations for them

  Fusion-io announced a flash card for workstations that more than triples the capacity over its previous model, and for the first time Hewlett-Packard is preparing to ship workstations with the drives.

• CloudSigma goes all SSD in its cloud

  In what one analyst calls a harbinger of future advancements by cloud providers, European infrastructure as a service (IaaS) company CloudSigma has announced that its cloud storage will run completely on solid state drives (SSD).

• QLogic promises speed, simplicity with first Mt. Rainier cache-on-adapter products

  QLogic's technology for clustered cache storage on SAN adapters will hit the market this month in the form of adapters with integrated 200GB or 400GB flash cards.

• SXSW 2013: No new Twitter, but marketing and hardware stand out

  South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map. But if there was a "next big thing" at this year's event, finding it would be pretty hard.

• Seagate upgrades hybrid drive family, adds desktop model

  Seagate announced new models of its 2.5-in. hybrid laptop drives with 40% better performance, as well as its first 3.5-in. desktop hybrid drive.

• EMC unveils all-SSD array, one app to manage all flash

  EMC today announced its first purpose-built, all SSD array along new PCIe server flash cards and a new software suite that can offer administrators a single view of all their flash assets across the data center.