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Storage news - July 2009, week 1

Megabyte's selection of storage news
Megabyte loved reading news stories
about the storage market
... the fastest SSDs
the SSD Buyers Guide
key facts re the 2.5" SSD market
the Top 10 SSD Companies
What's the best / cheapest PC SSD?
SSD Pricing - where does all the money go?
Write IOPS - inflation problems in flash SSDs
SSDs - what to tell your friends about this strange obsession
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Faster 2.5" SSDs from OCZ
Editor:- July 7, 2009 - OCZ today announced faster versions of its 2.5" SATA flash SSDs.

By increasing the internal cache speed by 8% the Vertex Turbo now delivers read and write speeds clocking in at up to 270MB/s read and 210MB/s write.

These are fast for consumer SSDs - but see the fastest SSDs list for much faster devices.


Top 10 SSD OEMs

Editor:- July 7, 2009 - StorageSearch.com today published the 9th quarterly edition of the Top 10 SSD OEMs - based on search volume in Q 2009.

Who are the top 10 most important SSD manufacturers - the companies which you absolutely have to look at if you've got got any new projects involving SSDs? With over 155 oems now in the SSD market - this article with its commentary and analysis is a must read. ...read the article


Cheetah Joins Fastest SSD List

Editor:- July 2, 2009 - Foremay has recently announced one of the fastest 2.5" SLC flash SSDs in the market.

The SATA compatible SC199 Cheetah V-Series has sustained R/W speeds of 260MB/s and /250MB/s respectively and 42,000 random IOPS. Capacity options range from 32GB to 256GB.

Editor's comments:- that makes the 3rd Cheetah in my Animal Brands in the Storage Market Directory. Click on the link to see the full storage zoo.


SSD Market's Biggest Shifting Trends

Editor:- July 1, 2009 - In a fast growing market like SSDs - how do you spot the most significant trends?

I discuss the 2 most significant changes in the past year and how I think they will affect the future market in my new preface to the SSD buyers guide published today.
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Top 20 Storage Articles - June 2009
  1. the Solid State Disks Buyers Guide
  2. the SSD Bookmarks
  3. War of the Disks: Hard Disk Drives vs. Flash SSDs
  4. the Fastest SSDs
  5. SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance"
  6. the Top 10 SSD OEMs
  7. A Storage Architecture Guide
  8. NAS, DAS or SAN? - Choosing the Technology
  9. Flash Memory vs. Hard Disks - Which Will Win?
  10. the Benefits of SAS for External Subsystems
  11. RAM SSDs versus Flash SSDs - which is Best?
  12. Are MLC SSDs Ever Safe in Enterprise Apps?
  13. Can you trust flash SSD specs & SSD benchmarks?
  14. 2009 - Year of SSD Market Confusion
  15. After SSDs... What Next?
  16. What's a Solid State Disk?
  17. Z's Laws - Predicting Flash SSD Performance
  18. LVD, SE, HVD, SCSI compatibility - or lack of it
  19. the 10 biggest storage companies in 2012?
  20. Overview of the Notebook SSD Market
other storage news on this page

Faster 2.5" SSDs from OCZ

the Top 10 SSD OEMs

Cheetah Joins Fastest SSD List

SSD Market's 2 Biggest Shifts

animal brands and metaphors  in the  storage market - click to see the teeming zoo
Animal brands in storage
on StorageSearch.com
The Byte family was just a small part of
the interesting community of beings who
worked in the storage market.
SSD Pricing - where does all the money go?
SSDs are among the most expensive computer hardware products you will ever buy.

Understanding the factors which determine SSD costs is often a confusing and irritating process...
Clarifying SSD Pricing - where does all the money go? - click to read the article ...not made any easier when market prices for identical capacity SSDs can vary more than 100x to 1! Why is that? ...read the article
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What's the best / cheapest - PC SSD?
Editor:- I often get emails from readers which ask the above question.

An article on StorageSearch.com - called What's the best / cheapest PC SSD? - is my attempt to create a simple FAQs page - which answers the question...
click to read this article ...of why I can't answer your question - and follows on to pose some probing questions which you can ask yourself. ...read the article
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the fastest SSDs

Speed isn't everything, and it comes at a price.........
But if you do need the speediest SSD then wading through the web sites of over 180 current SSD oems to shortlist products slows you down.

And the SSD search problem will get even worse as we head towards a market with over 1,000 SSD oems.
the fastest SSDs  sorted by interface and form factor - click to read article ... Relax - I've done the research. And this whizzy wish list is updated daily from storage news and direct contacts from oems. ...read the article,

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