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Seagate's Momentus XT is a 2.5" notebook drive of a half-Terabyte in capacity that stands out from the crowd because it contains 4GB of SLC NAND flash. The NAND flash is used as sort of a 'fast access repository' to store commonly used data, though at 4GB, the SSD portion of this hybrid drive accounts for only 0.8% of its total storage capacity. The two platter, 7200RPM Seagate Momentus XT posts an average read latency of 11.0ms, write 13.0ms. Seagate's 3Gb/s SATA II ST95005620AS drive retails for round $156 USD / £90 GBP and requires no special drivers or software.
Dass der Marvell 88SS9174 SSD-Controller zu einem der stabilsten SSD-Controller seiner Zunft gehört, ist ein offenes Geheimnis, auch wenn natürlich viel von der jeweiligen Firmware abhängt. Darüber hinaus gehört er in Verbindung mit den richtigen Zutaten sprich Flashchips, ARM Prozessoren auch zu schnellsten. Insofern ist es keine Überraschung, das mittlerweile von fast jedem namenhaften Retail-Lieferanten eine entsprechende SSD mit dieser Basis existiert.
Da mittlerweile auch Corsair und Plextor auf dieses Pferd setzen, haben wir uns kurzfristig dazu entschlossen, die Performance Pro von Corsair und die M3 von Plextor durch unseren Testparcour zu schicken, um möglicherweise weitere Empfehlungen aussprechen zu können. Bevor Mißverständnisse aufkommen, in Europa existiert nur die M3 von Plextor, die M3S ist für den amerikanischen Markt vorbehalten und es ist derzeit fraglich, ob sie noch den Weg über den großen Teich nach Europa finden wird. Aber das soll uns nicht weiter tangieren, beide SSDs kommen mit Toshiba Toogle-NAND Flashbausteinen, wobei Plextor schon auf die 24nm Fertigung setzt und Corsair noch die 32nm Fertigung bevorzugt. Da dies neben dem unterschiedlichen Buffer (Corsair 256MB, Plextor 128MB, bezogen auf die 128GB SSDs) schon den einzige Unterschied neben einer selbstverständlich differierenden Firmware darstellt, waren wir sehr gespannt, ob sich im Test überhaupt gravierende Unterschiede aufzeigen lassen. Die Plextor M3 SSD stammt übrigens von einem Online Händler unserer Wahl, ihr wißt ja, das wir gerne mal stichprobenhaft die realen Angebote der Hersteller prüfen. Aber genug der Präambel, jetzt wünschen wir euch viel Spaß mit unserem neuesten SSD-Doppel Review...
Thanks to a lightning fast 2.0GHz Marvell CPU, 512MB of DDR3 RAM and USB 3.0 connectivity the latest DiskStation DS212+ by Synology is currently one of the fastest and most feature rich mid to high-end dual bay NAS Server units in the market today.
We are still a few days away from CES 2012, but the eleventh annual Storage Visions Conference is well underway. We were able to take a look at some unreleased products from Intel, Crucial, OCZ and ioSafe that are worth a look if you are interested in storage. The next generation of SSDs promise more performance with additional focus on reliability. Read on to see what the highlights of the show were for us.
Aimed mostly towards professionals and enthusiasts the latest RevoDrive Hybrid 1TB PCI Express Storage Solution by OCZ combines the breathtaking read/write speeds of the RevoDrive3 PCI-E SandForce based SSD with the large capacity of a 1TB 2.5inch hard disk drive, all in one very convenient package.
The whole shapes and sizes thing, while it might not seem like an issue, it is actually a big problem when you try to use them. Patriot was one of the biggest offenders, their Magnum products managed to achieve up to 128GB of capacity which sounds great, but you can't plug them into an Xbox 360 or many other products that limit the width around the connector. Patriot isn't the only offender, around half of the USB 3.0 drives we've tested are oversized and either blocks other USB ports or just can't fit into some of the devices we want to plug into.
RunCore saw this as a problem too so when they set out to design their Pro IV MoonDrive they wanted to keep things simple and streamlined. The Pro IV MoonDrive's profile isn't that much different than the low cost flash drives you see at the grocery store hanging on a rack next to the batteries for children's toys. The build quality though is much more advanced, both inside and out.
storage space is the one thing computers will never have enough of. Yet as hard drives slowly grow into single-digit Terabyte territory, a single architectural decision implemented years ago makes it impossible for most PCs to even recognize HDDs larger than 2.1TB in size! On the PCSTATS test bench today is Seagate's 3TB, 6Gb/s SATA III Barracuda XT hard drive which gets around the 2.1TB desktop storage capacity limitation by creating two partitions (2.1TB + 0.9TB) with the aid of Seagate's free DiskWizard software.
One of the most unique SSDs to come to market in 2011 was the Corsair Performance 3 Series. The Performance 3 used a modified version of the Marvell SATA III controller to deliver high-speed SATA III speeds, but with a twist. The drive couldn't be slowed down due to a very aggressive garbage collection algorithm. This held true throughout the drive even when the drive was nearly full of data. The down side was the drive wasn't as fast at peak performance when compared to other Marvell based SSDs like the Crucial m4 and Intel 510 Series, but for users who ran their drives with 50% or more capacity the Performance 3 proved to be faster than all competing Marvell products on the market.
Corsair now has a follow up product in the Performance family, the Performance Series Pro. We've had this drive in house for quite a while now to try and determine exactly what it is. The early marketing on this product gave us the impression that it was a faster Performance 3, but our testing proved that wasn't exactly accurate since the Performance Pro does slow down as data is added, just like the m4 and 510 Series Marvell drives.
Verbatim is a brand most will be familiar with for their optical media; you can find spindles of Verbatim DVD-Rs and CD-Rs on the shelves of just about every electronics aisle in the country. Their name is built, more or less entirely, on media for physically shuttling bits from place to place. It is no surprise then, that they would choose to branch out into portable hard drives. Today we'll be looking into one of their latest offerings, the Store 'n' Go USB 3.0.
With the growing trend towards home networks and the ever expanding multimedia market the LinkStation Pro is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box that is designed for the home user market. It offers instant storage expansion and file access on a home network and over the Internet. This compact bit of kit is available with 1.0TB, 2.0TB or 3.0TB built-in 3.5in hard drives and features a 1.6GHz processor that promises transfer speeds of up to 76MB/s.
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