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Seagate launches their Pulsar SSD

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Ray

Today Seagate announced their new SSD offering, named the Pulsar SSD.  It uses SLC NAND technology and comes in a 2.5″ form factor at 50, 100 or 200GB capacity.  The fact that it uses a 3GB/s SATA interface seems to … Continue reading →

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Why SSD performance is a mystery?

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Ray

SSD and/or SSS (solid state storage) performance is a mystery to most end-users. The technology is inherently asymmetrical, i.e., it reads much faster than it writes. I have written on some of these topics before (STEC’s new MLC drive, Toshiba’s … Continue reading →

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STEC's MLC enterprise SSD

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Ray

I haven’t seen much of a specification on STEC’s new enterprise MLC SSD but it should be interesting.  So far everything I have seen seems to indicate that it’s a pure MLC drive with no SLC NAND.  This is difficult … Continue reading →

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