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 [...]
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 drives they tested [...]
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 [...]
HotHardware has an article about garbage collection for SSD drives. They start with a summary of why this process is of vital importance:
The flash memory used on today’s SSDs is comprised of cells that usually contain 4KB pages that are arranged in blocks of 512KB. When a cell is unused, data can be written to [...]
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