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The Marvell based drives from 2011 were very good products, they just had a very big umbrella over their head. Pricing always plays a large role in the retail purchasing decision, especially in a slow moving economy. The Marvell controlled products are at a disadvantage when it comes to price out of the gate. The architecture calls for a DRAM cache buffer, an added expense, when compared to the SandForce design that runs an internal buffer in the controller. When you add the additional cost with the lower performance compared to many of the SF-2281 controlled drives, there just wasn't enough incentive for consumers to come home with a solid state drive using a Marvell controller.
The 2012 SSD season is now in full swing and unlike last year, SandForce doesn't have a new controller ready to follow their successes of the last two years. Furthermore, the Team SandForce partners are tip toeing into 2012, we've yet to see an established Team SandForce member show a drive with the latest generation flash coming from Samsung and Toshiba. SandForce is leaving a door open and in this competitive market others are rushing to get their foot in the door.
Instead of placing your old 2.5” hard drive into a slow USB 2.0 enclosure, why not try something faster. OWC offers the Mercury On-The-Go FireWire 800 / USB 2.0 Portable Kit which allows the user to take advantage of Firewire 800 speeds. Plus the clear acrylic enclosure lets you see exactly which drive is housed within the enclosure.
RAID, the final frontier. These are the voyages of...ah, who am I kidding? Choosing to implement RAID today isn’t embarking on a mission to boldly go where no one has gone before. This technology has literally been around for years, and today RAID support can be found within most operating systems, integrated on motherboards, or easily added to any system as a 3rd party controller for almost nothing (quick search on Amazon yields controllers for less than $30). With its wide availability, you may find yourself at some point contemplating taking the plunge and configuring a RAID setup on your own system. However, before doing so, there are some things you should consider.
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I find OCZ's current situation similar to the early 1990's 49ers. OCZ had a very good run with SandForce, winning best consumer SSD awards with both the Vertex 2 and a year later with Vertex 3. Just like Joe, the SandForce SF-2000 series is starting to look a little older and the young competition from other makers is starting to catch up. SandForce might offer the fastest controller to date, but that might not be the case starting next season.
SSD caching is becoming more and more popular and rightfully so; as things stand today, it is about the only efficient way to combine large storage space with enhanced everyday performance. SSD caching was initially meant for users using an Intel Z68 based motherboard, until the few major SSD manufacturers released caching solutions which could work with any configuration. One of these manufacturers is Corsair, which recently joined the caching SSD bandwagon with the release of the Accelerator Series SSD drives. In this review we will examine the performance of the Accelerator 60GB caching SSD and see how it differentiates from competition.
Hot off the heels of our LSI MegaRAID review, Chris is back with a look at the Areca 1882i RAID controller.
The topic of RAID has come up again here at TechwareLabs with the Adaptec ASR 6805E RAID card taken for a spin. We compare the Adaptec card against a single Western Digital hard drive connected to the motherboard, and Two/Four Western Digital drives in a stripe using both the 6805E and on-motherboard RAID.
Der Begriff Vertex wird in der Regel aus dem lateinischen mit "Knoten" oder "Wendepunkt" übersetzt, hat OCZ sich davon inspirieren lassen? möglich wäre es zumindest, umso mehr wenn wir uns vor Augen halten, dass die neue Vertex 4 SSD nicht mehr von einem Controller aus dem Hause Sandforce gesteuert wird, sondern einen Indilinx Everest 2 Aufkleber besitzt. Wir betonen Aufkleber ganz bewusst, denn der Controller stammt de facto von Marvell und stellt den Nachfolger der äußerst bewährten 88SS9174 Baureihe dar. Der neue Marvell 88SS9187 stellt die mittlerweile dritte SSD-Controller Generation von Marvell dar und bringt einige Neuerungen aufs Tablett. Zum einen wäre der recht üppig bemessene Cache Speicher von bis zu 1GB DDR3 RAM zu erwähnen, zum anderen sollen Fehlerkorrektur und ECC-Engine eine Optimierung erhalten haben. Darüber hinaus will Marvell mit dem neuen Controller sowohl Enterprise- als auch mobile Geräte adressieren und stellt in den Raum, dass der 88SS9187 im Aktiv- und Standby-Modus die niedrigste Energieaufnahme aller derzeit verfügbaren SATA-Controller der 6-GBit/s-Klasse besitzen soll.
Als weitere Premiere fällt auch das Stichwort Ndurance 2.0, was die Lebensdauer der Nand Flashchips verlängern soll. Realisiert wird dies über entsprechend programmierte Lese-Algorithmen. Garniert wird das höchst interessante Paket durch eine 5-jährige Garantiezeit und einen bereits jetzt knapp unter 150 € angesiedeltes Preisgefüge. Grund genug also die neue Vertex 4 SSD intensiv auf ihre Nehmerqualitäten hin zu überprüfen. Die Resultate unsere 14-tägigen Praxis-Tests könnt ihr im nun folgenden Review nachlesen, dazu wünschen wir euch jetzt viel Vergnügen
Comay has done something different with their flagship consumer drive. Enterprise features meet consumer price points.
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