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ioSafe Launches
Disaster Proof Backup SSD
Editor:- January 5, 2010 - ioSafe launched the
ioSafe Solo SSD - an ultra rugged
USB /
eSATA
external
flash SSD with
upto 256GB capacity ($1,250) designed to provide data protection against
disasters such as fire, flood, and building collapse.
ioSafe offers
a "no questions asked"
Data Recovery policy
to help customers recover from any data disaster including accidental deletion,
virus or physical disaster.
"The new ioSafe Solo SSD is the world's most rugged and versatile
desktop external hard drive. It can be used alone or in conjunction with any
offsite or online backup
strategy to add real time, zero data loss, synchronous disaster protection to
any data that sits vulnerable," said ioSafe CEO, Robb Moore.
Foremay Ships Fastest 2.5" SATA SSD
Editor:-
November 2, 2009 -
Foremay
announced it is shipping the
world's fastest 2.5"
SATA flash SSDs.
The
SC199 Cheetah Y-Series has R/W speeds up to 290/280 MB/s in
2.5" and
3.5" SATA form
factors - which approaches the theoretical speed limit of the SATA-II protocol.
It also delivers impressive R/W IOPS of up to 50,000/45,000 respectively.
Sonnet Launches Camera to SATA Hard Drive Module
Editor:-
September 10, 2009 -
Sonnet Technologies
today announced the
Qio
professional universal media reader/writer.
It's a convenient
high speed alternative to stand-alone card readers,
SATA controllers and
various adapters, combining their functionality in a compact rugged case, and
fulfilling the data handling needs of videographers with multiple cameras using
different memory card formats.
We talked to many customers who had combinations of Sony, Panasonic
and Red cameras who wanted some way to transfer the data from any of them at
full speed to hard drives,
needed drive-to-drive copy capability, and desired a compact, portable, rugged,
and battery-operable package," said Robert Farnsworth, CEO of Sonnet
Technologies. "The Qio does this and more!." Removable Storage
Hitachi Ships "Enterprise class" 2TB HDD
Editor:-
August 11, 2009 - Hitachi
started shipping the
Ultrastar
A7K2000 - a 3.5", 2TB, 7,200 RPM,
SATA
hard drive for
applications such as data warehousing,
disk-to-disk backup, cloud
computing and massive scale-out storage.
Intel Delivers 1st 34nm MLC SSDs
Editor:- July 21,
2009 - Intel
announced a
process
shrink for its
X25-M -
SATA 2.5" MLC flash SSD.
The new 34nm devices deliver
upto 8,800 (4KB) write IOPS and up to 35,000 read IOPS. R/W speeds are 250MB/s
and 70MB/s respectively. R/W latenciy is 65µS and 85µS. The 160GB
model is priced at $440 (1,000 unit price point).
...Later:-
within a few days,
shipments
of the new Intel SSDs were suspended due to an internal bug.
See
also:- Why Users Can Expect More Flaky
Flash SSDs!
Addonics Enters Disk Duplicator Market
Editor:- June
10, 2009 - Addonics
today announced a family of
hard
disk duplicators for 2.5" and 3.5 SATA or PATA drives..
Prices
start from $249.
Editor's comments:- Addonics's
Zebra
disk duplicator is the 2nd Zebra in my menagerie directory -
Animal Brands
in the Storage Market.
The
disk duplicator market
is not, frankly a great market to be in, at a time when
hard disk market
revenue is declining by double digit percentages year on year. Addonics says
you can use these duplicators for
SSDs too. But that won't
boost demand because most oems are just going to redeploy the under utilized
equipment they've already got - rather than buy new stuff.
SATA-IO Interoperability Workshop
Editor:- June 8,
2009 - ULINK Technology
announced today that the company's newly released software,
Drive Master 2010 Pro
SATA supports SATA-IO's
Revision 3.0 tests in the
SATA-IO Interoperability
Workshop being held this week in Milpitas, CA.
The Drive Master
2101 Pro SATA is the ULINK's newly released flagship product to support
features, such as 6Gbps interface speed. It also includes new features for
Trusted Computing Group's
Full
Disk Encryption testing.
See also:-
Storage Events,
Storage Security,
Storage Testers &
Analyzers
WD Ships New 2TB Enterprise Hard Drive
Editor:- April
20, 2009 - Western
Digital - announced details of a new 2TB 3.5"
SATA
hard drive - the
WD RE4-GP.
Features include time-limited error recovery for use in
RAID systems, and lower
power consumption than older hard drives. MSRP is $329.
Editor's
comments:- this kind of drive is optimized to provide high capacity at low
cost, rather than high performance. Typical applications include
disk to disk backup and
video or other massive
content storage.
Seagate Demos 6Gbps SATA Prototype Hard Drive
SCOTTS
VALLEY, Calif. - March 9, 2009 - Seagate and AMD will
collaborate in the first public demonstration of 6Gbps SATA storage this
week at a conference in New Orleans.
The demo features 2 Seagate
SATA disk drives -
one a shipping Barracuda 7200.12 3Gb/second hard drive and the other a
prototype Barracuda 6Gbps drive - in a desktop PC to show the performance
difference between the 2 generations. The PC is powered by an AMD prototype SATA
6Gb/second chipset. The Seagate SATA 3Gb/second drive runs at more than 2.5Gbps
and the SATA 6Gb/second drive at 5.5Gbps with the performance of each storage
interface displayed on the PC monitor.
...Seagate profile,
storage chips
G-Tech Launches Desktop eSATA SSD RAID
Macworld, San
Francisco - January 5, 2009 - G-Technology today announced a new
family of external drives based on 2.5" SSD technology.
The
G-DRIVE mini SSD has a FireWire and USB interface and costs $599 for 120GB and
$1,299 for 250GB.
The G-RAID mini SSD has
eSATA,
FireWire and
USB interfaces and upto
195MB/sec data transfer rates. Price is $2,199 for 500GB. ...G-Tech profile
Benchmark Reviews Confirms flash SSD Performance Uncertainty
Principle
Editor:-
January 4, 2009 - Benchmark Reviews has recently published an article - "SSD
Benchmark Performance Testing."
This provides experimental
confirmation of something I warned about in an earlier article -
Can you trust flash
SSD specs & benchmarks? - namely that hard disk based performance
software provides unreliable results for SSDs.
The author, Executive
Editor, Olin Coles (who has published many disk benchmarks) concludes "I
warn readers to regard SSD reviews with a high degree of caution". He says
he's going to stop using certain test suites, and the discovery that he can't
trust all the results which he has worked hard to collect and publish made him
feel sick. Coles is a very experienced benchmark tester - and his article makes
interesting reading. ...read
the article
ATTO Ships Fastest SAS/SATA HBAs
Amherst, NY -
November 13, 2008 - ATTO Technology, Inc. announces shipment of its
first 6Gbps SAS/SATA host adapters, to select OEMs and partners.
Leveraging
PCIe 2.0 and 6-Gb SAS speeds, ATTO says the
H608 (8 internal
ports) and H680 (8
external ports) deliver the fastest available connection to
SAS/SATA storage (up to
8GB/sec. full-duplex).
...ATTO Technology profile,
Record Breaking
Storage
Oxford Semi Dangles eSATA DAS Dongles
MilpitasCalif. -
November 4 , 2008 - Oxford Semiconductor today unveiled 2 new DAS
security encryption chips.
Aimed at
storage oems - the
OXUFS936DSE
and OXUS931SE
feature an embedded hardware encryption engine enabling real time encryption
with no loading on the host PC.
...Oxford
Semiconductor profile, storage
chips, Storage
Security
Toshiba Samples Bigger 2.5" Car Drive
IRVINE,
Calif. - October 21, 2008 - Toshiba is sampling its first 80GB SATA
automotive-grade HDD - a 2.5" form factor drive which spins at 4,200 RPM.
Toshiba's
latest model features an operating altitude specification of 5,500 meters and
supports an operating temperature range of -30º to 85º Celsius. The
MK8057GSC also can withstand operational shock of 300G, providing a rugged and
dependable storage solution for automobiles operating through extreme
temperatures and terrain. ...Toshiba
profile, 2.5"
SSDs, Hard disk drives,
Military Storage
New SATA SSDs List
Editor:- September 30, 2008 -
StorageSearch.com today published a new directory of - SATA SSDs.
In
the past 4 years we've tracked the SATA SSD market go from zero manufacturers to
more than 30. And new ones are coming into the market every month. To simplify
the process of finding them among nearly 100 SSD companies in our
main SSD page - we've
published a new guide. ...read
the article
ULINK Invites SSD OEMs to Participate in SATA-IO Interoperability
Workshop
Santa Clara, CA - September 29, 2008- ULINK Technology will
provide a range of testing tools for designers and manufacturers during the
SATA-IO Plugfestthis
week in Milpitas, California.
ULINK considers that it will be a good
opportunity for new SSD
designers and manufacturers to test the compliance of SATA-IO industrial
standard by working with ULINK during this coming event.
Storage Events,
Storage Testers &
Analyzers
Sonnet Launches Speedy SATA ExpressCard for Notebooks
IRVINE,
CA - September 12, 2008 - Sonnet Technologies today announced the Tempo
SATA Pro ExpressCard/34, a dual port SATA host controller for notebooks.
It
enables users to connect from 1 to 10
SATA
hard drives to any
compatible notebook computer with an ExpressCard/34 or /54 slot. Suitable for
video capture and editing it supports sustained data throughput of up to
200MB/sec. OS compatibility includes MacBook Pro systems running Mac OS 10.5
and 10.4, as well as with notebooks running Windows Vista and XP SP2. The
Sonnet card will be available in October at a suggested retail price of
$299.95.
...Sonnet profile
New SATA Compatible CompactFlash Standard
PALO ALTO, Calif. -
September 3, 2008 - the CompactFlash Association announces that the
new CFast specification revision 1.0 is now available for download.
The first CFast cards (CompactFlash form factor card with a
SATA interface) were
demonstrated at the Flash Memory
Summit in August.
The current CompactFlash PATA (parallel ATA) interface provides up
to a 133MB/second interface data rate. The SATA interface will provide interface
data rates up to 3Gb/sec as well as compatibility with the SATA disk drive
interfaces that are increasingly being used.
...CompactFlash
Association profile, Flash
Memory Chips & Cards, Storage
ORGs
editor's comments:- the draft spec costs $100 for non CFA
members .
InServ Selects Emulex Embedded FC-to-SATA Bridge
COSTA MESA, Calif. -
September 2, 2008 - Emulex Corp today announced that its BR-2401
embedded storage bridge has been selected for use within 3PAR's InServ
storage servers.
Emulex's
FC-to-SATA
bridge solution enables high-capacity
SATA
hard disk drives to be
integrated into the back-end of 3PAR's InServ arrays. With this integration,
3PAR customers can take advantage of both low-cost, high-capacity SATA along
with Fibre Channel disk
capacity within the same drive chassis. ...3PAR profile,
...Emulex profile,
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Nibble:- Re: Serial
ATA
Serial ATA is a storage interface specification which
started life 10 years ago.
SATA is used to directly attach storage
devices, such as
hard disk drives,
DVDs and
SSDs , to the motherboard
and was the replacement for legacy Parallel ATA physical storage interface.
Serial ATA technology allowed for platform cost reductions and
performance improvements while supporting a seamless transition from Parallel
ATA technology. SATA began with 1.5 Gbps, and its roadmap is scalable to 2x, 4x
(starting to appear now) and beyond.
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9 Years Ago - August 2000
- from
Storage
History
1st Serial ATA Hard
Drive Unveiled at IDF |
San Jose , CA - August 22,
2000 - Seagate
Technology, APT
Technologies, Inc. and Vitesse Semiconductor Corp
today unveiled the first Serial ATA disc drive, giving a glimpse into the
future of ATA disc drive technology.
The drive is natively attached to
an Intel Pentium 4 processor system through an APT Serial ATA PCI Host Bus
Adapter, featuring a 1.5 Gbps transfer rate. The prototype demonstration
combines technologies from Seagate, APT, Intel Corporation and Vitesse.
It
features a Seagate disc drive with its Serial ATA board, using APT's Serial ATA
Link and Transport layers logic and Vitesse's 1.5 Gbs CMOS transceiver, attached
via Serial ATA to APT's Serial ATA to PCI host bus adapter. Additionally, to
demonstrate the applicability of Serial ATA to ATAPI devices, APT also unveiled
a Delta Micro 12x DVD ROM running on the same Serial ATA PCI host adapter.
This new technology will allow for platform cost reductions and
performance improvements while supporting a seamless transition from Parallel
ATA technology. Serial ATA will supply storage interface headroom for many
generations to come, beginning with 1.5 Gbps, scalable to 2x, 4x and beyond.
"Seagate is proud to demonstrate at this early stage that Serial
ATA technology will soon be ready for implementation, and that the industry's
technology leaders are working together to make it happen," said Tom
Porter, Seagate executive VP and CTO. "There are many hardware and software
engineers who attend the Forum to set their blueprint plans for the coming year
and we're happy to provide them the first glimpse into the Serial ATA future."
"Vitesse is pleased to demonstrate Serial ATA Physical Layer
solutions with early adopters of this exciting new technology," said Bob
Rumer, VP of the SAN Products Group at Vitesse Semiconductor. "By combining
expertise from APT Technologies, Intel, Seagate and Vitesse we will be able to
provide the industry's first complete Serial ATA IC solutions."
"The development of this prototype is key to illustrating that
the industry is on track to deliver
Serial ATA. We have
also demonstrated widespread O/S compatibility running the setup under Windows
98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux and Solaris 8 with both ATA and
ATAPI devices," said Jim Rubino, president and CEO of APT Technologies. "Our
ability to demonstrate the viability of Serial ATA technology on both ATA and
ATAPI devices is another step toward ensuring a smooth transition from parallel
ATA/100 to Serial ATA"
Seagate, APT, Intel and Vitesse are
among the members of the Serial ATA Working Group (which in September 2004
became SATA-IO)
developing the Serial ATA storage interface specification for the
next-generation computing platform.
This interface is used to connect
storage devices, such as hard discs, DVDs and CD-R/Ws, to the motherboard and is
the replacement for today's Parallel ATA physical storage interface. Serial ATA
is compatible with existing ATA software drivers and will run standard operating
systems without modification.
...Later:-
SATA - as we now
call it - became a very successful interface for hard drives. It was the
critical inflexion point in the server industry's transition away from
parallel interfaces for DAS storage to higher performance serially connected
standards.
In some ways
PCIe SSDs represent a
turning back from that model. But in the pursuit of affordable faster servers -
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