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While several companies are already offering internal Solid State Drives for use in servers, OCZ has just announced a solution that targets the consumer segment. The RevoDrive uses a PCIe connection to enable higher speeds than possible with a traditional SATA interface, but OCZ manages to keep the price for the drive relatively low.
OCZ sure knows how to keep everyone’s attention. Why launch all your new products at once when you can spread the press releases out over the course of a week? The latest is the announcement of a 1.8″ version of their Vertex 2 model.  OCZ Vertex 2 1.8" SSD It was hard to miss the news about Anobit today. They announced the first drive using their Memory Signal Processing technology; with their proprietary technology they hope to make Multi-Level Cell (MLC) flash drives as reliable as the more expensive SLC models.  Anobit Genesis SSD OCZ technology is offering two new Solid State drives for the enterprise market: the Vertex 2 Pro and Vertex 2 EX:
 OCZ Vertex 2 EX SSD OCZ is now shipping another Flash product: the Z-Drive. It is an internal drive, connected via an 8-lane PCI express bus. This makes the drive faster than SAS or SATA based solutions; the drive is available with both SLC and MLC memory, which enables customers to choose between the highest performance and a more affordable drive.  OCZ Z-Drive With VMworld wrapping up today, it’s a quiet news day which is always a nice time to look back at some of the products that have been released lately. HotHardware is one of the places that does so, by providing us with an extensive test report about the current state-of-the-art SSD drives. The [...] OCZ just announced two new Solid State drives: the OCZ Solid 2 series offers drives with 64 and 128 gigabytes of storage capacity. The drives use MLC chips, and are geared towards “mainstream consumers looking to take advantage of flash based storage technology”. The new models use the same Indilinx controller found in OCZ’s more expensive offerings, and are backed by a 3-year warranty.
HotHardware has an article about garbage collection for SSD drives. They start with a summary of why this process is of vital importance:
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