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WD completes its 3-way deal

Davide Costantini — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:24:10 +0000

We talked about the Hitachi GST acquisition about two months ago. To protect competition, UE and FTC required Western Digital to sell the Hitachi’s 3.5″ HD business to Toshiba. Today the company announced the completion of the operation. Toshiba is … Continue reading →

OCZ releases a 64GB Vertex 4

Davide Costantini — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:52:57 +0000

The Vertex 4, OCZ’s flagship solution, is now available in a 64GB capacity. The company announced the release from its Twitter channel. Smaller drives usually have slower specifications and the Vertex 4 is no exception: Anyway this SSD is really … Continue reading →

“Cheap” 1TB SSD arriving

Davide Costantini — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:20:02 +0000

Thanks to Kingmax, Japaneses can now buy a cheap 1TB SSD. In fact, Engadget spotted the SMU25 Client Pro 1TB in Japan at about $1,500. That’s a pretty good price point compared to the competitor OCZ Octane 1TB, sold at … Continue reading →

Intel SSD 910 is fast

Davide Costantini — Mon, 07 May 2012 08:04:00 +0000

I talked about Intel SSD 910, its first PCIe solution, about a month ago. Now it’s available the first review of the drive published by Hot Hardware. The results are good. The 910 isn’t as fast as some OCZ PCIe … Continue reading →

OCZ Q4 2012 financial results

Davide Costantini — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:56:54 +0000

Fiscal year 2012 was a good one for OCZ. The company collected record revenues of about $360 million thanks to a really strong growth of SSD business (+152%). 2011′s revenues were only 190 million. Despite these strong sales OCZ suffered … Continue reading →

Samsung launches thinnest DVD drive ever

Davide Costantini — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:23:26 +0000

Who cares about DVD drives? It seems Samsung does! The Korean chaebol launched the slimmest optical drive ever created. This solution aims to be a part of your next-gen Ultrabook or tablet. These highly portable devices needs tiny peripherals to … Continue reading →

WD Q3 2012 financial results

Davide Costantini — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:59:58 +0000

Western Digital revealed its Q3 financial results. Despite the negative effects of the Thai Floods, the company seems to be in a pretty good shape, thanks to the acquisition of HGST, of which results has been included in the balance … Continue reading →

April 23th, where are Ivy Bridges?

Davide Costantini — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:36:25 +0000

There’s something I don’t get today… It’s April 23th and Ivy Bridge processors are expected to be released but where the fuck are they? Intel isn’t known as a “paper launcher” company. I had experience with its modus operandi and … Continue reading →

OCZ Vertex 3 240GB reviewed

Davide Costantini — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:47:05 +0000

Today I’m going to show you how the OCZ Vertex 3 performed in our tests. This drive doesn’t need to be presented, it was the company’s flagship solution previous the release of the Vertex 4. Under the hood, there is … Continue reading →

Intel to launch cheap SF-2281 drive

Davide Costantini — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:53:36 +0000

Intel is preparing to launch its SSD 330, the successor of the SSD 320. Unlike its predecessor, it doesn’t mount a controller manufactured by the company but a SandForce SF-2281. This is the same solution as the more expensive SSD … Continue reading →

Crucial M4 gets firmware update

Davide Costantini — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:11:33 +0000

Crucial released a new update for its flagship M4 solution. This time the goal isn’t remove a bug but improve stability and support to SAS and RAID controllers. The company want the M4 to be more widespread among enterprise solutions. … Continue reading →

Intel to release its first PCIe SSD

Davide Costantini — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:02:48 +0000

This is a really important news because most of Intel’s SSDs are aimed to the enterprise market. So the lacks of a PCIe solution was disappointing. But soon you will be able to buy – if you have enough money … Continue reading →

OCZ releases astonishing Vertex 4

Davide Costantini — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:46:31 +0000

Vertex 4 is finally here and has an IndiLinx controller – Everest 2 – inside its body. This means that the long partnership between OCZ and SandForce is going to break up soon. The manufacturer has many SSDs powered by … Continue reading →

Plextor M3 SSD: un unexpected guest

Davide Costantini — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:03:05 +0000

Plextor isn’t a brand known for its SSD solutions, rather for their optical drives, but it manufactures solid state drives since 2010. Now it released the M3, a 6Gbps SATA Marvell-based drive that shares the controller with the Intel SSD … Continue reading →

HD prices are going to drop soon

Davide Costantini — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:41:21 +0000

A rumor published by DigiTimes suggests that HD prices will drop by about 10% at the end of the month. The hard drive supply is recovering and the Q2 2012 production is about 17% lower than Q3 2011. For the … Continue reading →