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  • Hitachi GST ends STEC’s monopoly • The Register

    In the market for data center hardware, competitive advantages and outright monopolies do not exist for very long. Someone can reverse engineer or clone your product sooner or later. In the case of the Fibre Channel SSD, that was just a matter of time once everyone saw there was a hug potential market for these…

  • LSI Launches $11,500 SSD, Crushes Other SSDs

    Now you’re talking real data center type pricing. What do you get for your high dollar, high margin PCIe card anyways? Maybe just a little more speed, check it out.

  • A Conversation with Ed Catmull – ACM Queue

    Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith were two key figures in the history of computer animation while they worked at George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic. Catmull eventually left ILM to form up Pixar with John Lasseter and Steve Jobs. And Catmull while at Pixar created the first feature length computer animated movie: Toy Story.…

  • TidBITS Opinion: A Eulogy for the Xserve: May It Rack in Peace

    Apple has announced the End of Life (EOL) for its Xserve product line. There will still be spare parts for a while yet, and some pay for support options available. But the era of the Xserve only lasted from 2002 to 2011. Xserve we hardly knew ye’.

  • A Quick Look at OCZ’s RevoDrive x2 – AnandTech

        What OCZ (and other companies) ultimately need to do is introduce a SSD controller with a native PCI Express interface (or something else other than SATA). SandForce’s recent SF-2000 announcement showed us that SATA is an interface that simply can’t keep up with SSD controller evolution. At peak read/write speed of 500MB/s, even…

  • Intel lets outside chip maker into its fabs • The Register

        According to Greg Martin, a spokesman for the FPGA maker, Achronix can compete with Xilinx and Altera because it has, at 1.5GHz in its current Speedster1 line, the fastest such chips on the market. And by moving to Intel’s 22nm technology, the company could have ramped up the clock speed to 3GHz. via…

  • OCZ Reveals New Bootable PCIe SSD (quick comparison to Angelbird PCIe)

    Many, many companies are making many announcements in the product category of PCI Express SSD drives. This once rare and expensive product is now being developed into a bigger market with standards organizations being formed and a flurry of new products being announced recently. What does this all mean for you? Hopefully it means the…

  • Intel forms flash gang of five • The Register

    When a group of cutthroat competitors decide to collaborate it can only mean one thing, there’s a lot of money to be made. Intel is forming up a group to set standards for PCIe based SSD products for Enterprise and Data Center computing. To me this is a dead giveaway we will see a flood…

  • Angelbird to Bring PCIe SSD on the Cheap and Iomega has a USB 3 external SSD

    Some announcements last week from a company named Angelbird and the old stalwart Iomega. SSDs are the storage technology du jour and everyone wants to differentiate their offerings especially as more and more flash chips become more and more alike in speed and performance (3 manufacturers now are all neck in neck in terms of…

  • 64 GB Coming to SD Cards, USB Drives

    Samsung’s product development just won’t quit. What new devices await us in 2011? Will we see usb flash drives hit 64Gbytes? Will flash memory prices start to fall? Will SSDs become ubiquitous? With 3 manufacturers hitting the same feature size simultaneously it’s very likely.