Tag Archives: Hard disk drive

How Wired’s Mat Mohan got his personal data back from his SSD after his MacBook Air was hacked. Hint: $1690 in recovery fees.

Posted on August 23, 2012 by sleibson2

Mat Mohan knows how to transform adversity into opportunity. He’s a senior writer for Wired’s Gadget Lab and his Apple account was ingeniously hacked through a scam perpetrated on Amazon to get the necessary information to hack into Apple’s system. … Continue reading →

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Cool case instantly transforms 2.5-inch HDD or SSD into WiFi-connected network storage

Posted on July 23, 2012 by sleibson2

Patriot Memory is now selling the Gauntlet Node, a cool name for a cool disk-drive case that transforms a 2.5-inch HDD or SSD into a WiFi-connected network storage device. The enclosure has an internal SATA port and can accommodate drive … Continue reading →

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Three Golliaths and a host of Davids meeting up on the storage battlefield. Who wins?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by sleibson2

If you want to read a short, interesting overview of the combined HDD/SSD storage battlefield, look no further than a new article on The Register’s Web site. The article, titled “Will the titans of storage decide to flash their bits?” … Continue reading →

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Do you know the advantages and disadvantages of the six different use cases for SSDs?

Posted on April 30, 2012 by sleibson2

Marc Staimer, founder and senior analyst at Dragon Slayer Consulting, has just published an excellent primer on locating SSD storage within a server and storage network. With the advent of PCIe-based SSD storage based on NAND Flash memory, the number … Continue reading →

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LSI Corp releases multiple PCIe SSD and Flash-cached RAID storage cards in Nytro portfolio

Posted on April 2, 2012 by sleibson2

LSI Corp has just announced a number of products in its Nytro line of PCIe-based storage cards. The LSI Nytro WarpDrive is a second-generation SSD card available in capacities of 200Gbytes to 3.2Tbytes using a memory-stacking architecture to load the … Continue reading →

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Micron releases video on using PCIe for fast, enterprise-class SSDs like its P320h SSD

Posted on March 28, 2012 by sleibson2

As yet another example of how new, fast interfaces are changing the way SSDs fit into the enterprise storage arena, here’s a new video showing Gary Gentry, General Manager of Micron’s Enterprise SSD Division, explaining how and why Micron has … Continue reading →

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Watch out SSDs, here comes the NVM Express!

Posted on February 13, 2012 by sleibson2

I was reading an article on the Information Week Web site about using SSDs for accelerating enterprise storage and came across this statement: “For the most part, the type of SSD that you use in the storage system does not … Continue reading →

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