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Up to now we've been looking at network storage servers that come with no drives and are produced by a company other than a drive manufacturer. Western Digital are one of the best hard drive manufacturers our there in the market and their recent changes to their product line-up has not only made choosing the right drive for the job easier, but also a lot clearer. When it comes to network storage, WD has three types of drive that are geared for the job, Red, SE and RE. Red drives are still aimed for the home/SOHO user, whilst their enterprise SE and RE drives are optimised for the constant punishment that they will encounter 24x7.
Setting drives aside, WD has now come out with their own NAS solution, optimised for their own drives, in an all-in-one easy to use solution and so we get the Sentinel DX4000. The Sentinel is a first in a line of self designed NAS solutions that can be purchased with drives pre-installed in a variety of capacities, varying from a modest 2TB, right up to a whopping 16TB. Unlike other NAS solutions on the market, one of the main features that sets this system apart from the rest is the use of Windows Storage Server 2008 and a auto configuration process during the initial set-up that automatically builds the drives into a RAID5 array - the preferred choice for NAS solutions as this gives the best data security and will ensure no data is lost, should one drive fail during operation.
With this unit designed specifically for the SMB environment the use of WSS 2008 should allow for seamless integration through active directory and domain configuration and also for those that are at home with Windows, should make maintaining the system a bit more intuitive. With RAID automatically configured based on the number of drives installed, set-up should be easier as mentioned and knowing how well trusted and reliable Western Digital's drives are in the NAS markets with multiple lines of drives targeted at this environment, there is good hope that the system has a lot to give.
Today LaCie gives existing customers a 25% write performance increase and those looking for a quality NAS something to think about. New software features round out the updated NAS 3.0 software, but the 5big stood on solid ground before it.
When it comes to SSD line-ups, its safe to say that OCZ has got virtually every inch of ground covered with budget, performance and all round value drives with the Octane, Vertex 3 & 4 and recently the Vector series of drives. At the same time of covering all price points, OCZ have proven reliability and a huge following of users, but now that the SSD has become more mainstream and the number of users that are adopting the faster technology grows, the market is become heavily inundated with new models meaning that for some the choice is too great and for those vendors that have been in the SSD sector for a while now, their now older models are not getting the same attention that they used to.
OCZ's Vertex line of drives in my option are some of the best selling drives out there and now that they have been around for a good couple of years and then they were one of the pioneers of using MLC NAND flash to store data on their drives, pairing it with one of the most successful controllers of the SSD world - the SandForce SF-2281. Believe it or not, this is the second re-release of the Vertex 3 and this time round OCZ have made the point of making it clear about the update to the drive.
When the Vertex 3 was first released it included 34nm MLC NAND and following the move to 25nm NAND without much of an announcement from OCZ, there was a lot of upset from the consumers with some buying the 34nm drives without a clue that 25nm were also available with some improvements to the performance. Moving forward to now, OCZ are yet again shrinking the size of technology on their drives and we now are seeing 20nm NAND - that's almost half the original Vertex 3 of two years ago. Not wanting to make the same mistake twice however, OCZ this time round are making it well known that they have updated this drive and this includes a slight tweak to the name to reflect the 20nm NAND - hence Vertex 3.20.
It’s only a short time ago that I reviewed the Samsung 840 series of SSDs. The 840 series was the first consumer grade SSD to use TLC (Triple Level Cell) NAND. I am still conduction long term endurance testing on the 840 series SSD, and so far it has proved to be very durable.If the 840 SSD has a weakness, then it is most certainly its sequential writing performance, which by today’s standards is rather pedestrian.
Meet the new Samsung 840 EVO series of SSDs, which is said to address the lack of sequential writing performance on the original 840, and offer even more performance in other departments as well.The 840 EVO series is available in the following capacities. 120GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, and finally a 1000GB version.
They all use Samsung’s new 19nm Toggle 2 TLC NAND, and also feature a new faster SSD controller. You can read about the new hardware on the next page.Samsung sent me two SSDs, the 750GB version, and the 250GB version which I will be taking a look at in this article.
I will cover the 750GB version in the coming days.So let’s find out how this new SSD performs in our range of tests.
OCZ est une marque Hyper Active dans le monde du SSD. En effet cette dernière sort énormément de nouveautés et propose des SSD avec des contrôleurs que l'on ne retrouve dans aucun autre SSD, comme le Barefoot 3 M10 d'Indilinx, qui est intégré au Vertex 450 que nous testons ce jour.
Quest’oggi lo staff di Xtremehardware.com vi presenterà una pen drive davvero elegante ma al contempo stesso molto resistente. Stiamo parlando della PQI Tiffy nel taglio da 32GB, una pen drive dalle ridotte dimensioni con un rivestimento in metallo molto elegante e davvero veloce grazie all’interfaccia USB 3.0. Non ci resta che proseguire nella recensione per analizzarla nel dettaglio.
The Wireless Media Drive from SanDisk offers robust portability in small form factor. Today we dive in and take a close look at it.
Silicon Motion is looking to take a large portion of LSI SandForce and Marvell's market share with a new 4-channel SSD controller. Let's take a look.
Silicon Power has recently launched a mainstream SSD with decent transfer speeds and a lower 7mm height in order to increase the compatibility and include ultrabooks and other slim devices to the list. Besides the 16 NAND Flash chips, the SSD also features a 72-bit processor from Phison, the PS3108-S8-1 and also 512MB of DDR3 RAM for caching purposes.
MX-Technology aims for the low-cost, high-performance portable storage market with the LX USB 3.0 flash drive. Let's dive in and see how it performs
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