Thursday, October 20, 2011

OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid

OCZ  announced hybrid hard disk drive containing  100Gb SSD drive and 1Tb regular hard disk drive. Disk is represented as a PCI-e extension card.  Such storage division will allow frequent files store on SSD disk while less frequent files tore on large capacity hard drive.

More - http://hdd-compare.com/en/blog/ocz-revodrive-hybrid
OCZ RevoDrive Hybri HDD

SSD free space manager

Recently found very nice soft created by French programmers - SSD Boost Manager. Actually it helps you move whole programs from Hard drive to SSD and vice versa. All you need is to specify which folder you want to move forth and back so creating profile. After that, all you have to do is click on profile to move to or from SSD.

More - http://hdd-compare.com/en/blog/ssd-free-space-manager

Intel SSD 710 and 720

Intel  710 SSD (code name:  Lyndoville) will use MLC NAND technology. SSD disks will be supplied with 64Mb cache. Data interface - SATA 6Gb/s. Nice add-on is hardware encryption using 128bit key. Intel claims these disks will work at least 2 million hours.
Read performance expected 270 Mb/s and write performance 210 Mb/s. IOPS 36000.

More - http://hdd-compare.com/en/blog/intel-ssd-710-and-720