Solid State Drives

G. Skill International has released the high-performance Phoenix SATA II 2.5-inch solid state drives.

The Phoenix SSDs come in capacities of 50, 100 or 200GB and include the SandForce SF-1200 controller “that provides previously unseen performance, quality and reliability” with a maximum 280MB/s read and 270MB/s write speed.

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OCZ Technology Group, Inc. has announced the enthusiast-class Vertex 2 and Agility 2 2.5-inch SATA II solid state drive series.

The Vertex 2 and Agility 2 feature 50GB, 100GB, or 200GB drive capacities and up to 285MB/s read and up to 275MB/s write speeds in both series. However, the Vertex 2 provides a random write 4k of 50,000 IOPS, whereas the Agility 2 has 10,000 IOPS.

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Intel Corporation has announced a new addition to its solid-state drive (SSD) lineup – the Intel X25-V Value SATA SSD, featuring a 2.5-inch form factor and 40GB capacity.

Desinged for use in netbooks or as a boot drive for dual-drive SSD/HDD desktops, the X25-V Value SATA Solid-State Drive has read and write speeds of up to 170MB/s and 35MB/s, respectively.

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OCZ Technology has released the affordable OCZ Onyx SATA II 2.5-inch solid state drive series.

For under $100, the MLC technology-based Onyx Sata II 32GB SSD offers “shorter boot-ups, faster application loading, snappier data access, and longer (laptop) battery life.” The Onyx drive has up to 125MB/s read and 70MB/s write speeds.

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Corsair has announced the addition of the Reactor Series and Nova Series to its family of solid-state drives (SSDs), both featuring laptop-use 2.5-inch form factor.

The Reactor Series includes 60GB and 120GB drive capacities. The 120GB Reactor Series SSD delivers speeds of up to 250MB/s read and 170MB/s write, while the 60GB Reactor features speeds up to 250MB/s read and 110 MB/s write.

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Intel announced this week it has begun shipping the X18-M and X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives for laptop and desktop computers.

The 1.8-inch X18-M and 2.5-inch X25-M are based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash technology and are available in 80GB capacities. Their read and write speeds are up to 250MB per second and up to 70MB/s respectively. Samples of upcoming 160GB versions will be available in the fourth quarter of this year.

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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing 1.8- and 2.5-inch multi-level cell (MLC) solid state drives (SSD) with a 128GB storage capacity.

The new Samsung MLC NAND flash memory-based SSDs have a write speed of 70MB/s and a read speed of 90MB/s. The drives feature a Serial ATA 2 (3Gb/s) interface.

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OCZ Technology Group today unveiled the OCZ Core Series SATA II 2.5-inch Solid State Drives (SSDs).

“Core series SSD drives are available in capacities of 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB and deliver incredible 120-143Mbs/ 80-93Mbs read/write speeds and seek times of less than 0.35ms, making the Core series up to 10x as fast on a seek-time basis and up to 40% faster on a R/W basis that the best performing 2.5-inhc HDDs on the market, all while consuming 50% less power,” the company says.

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Super Talent today launched a new line of MasterDrive solid state drives (SSDs), featuring a 2.5-inch form factor, SATA II (3Gbps) interface, and data storage capacities from 30GB to 120GB.

The memory maker’s MasterDrive MX and MasterDrive DX solid state drive series feature 120/40 MB/sec and 120/70 MB/sec read/write speeds respectively.

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OCZ Technology has unveiled OCZ SATA II 2.5-inch Solid State Drives, an “ultra-fast, lightweight and efficient alternative” to conventional hard disc drives for notebooks.

The new solid state drives feature 120MB/s read and 100MB/s write speeds and come with capacities of 32GB (OCZSSD2-1S32G) and 64GB (OCZSSD2-1S64G). The SSDs have a lightweight brushed alloy housing, and two million hour mean time before failure (MTBF).

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Intel has announced the Z-P140 PATA solid state drive, which is “smaller than a penny and weighs less than a drop of water”.

“The tiniest in the industry, the Intel Z-P140 PATA SSD is designed for ultra-small mobile internet devices, digital entertainment and embedded applications and is part of the proposed Intel “Menlow” platform. The Intel Z-P140 PATA SSD comes in 2 Gigabyte (GB) and 4GB densities, extendable to 16GB,” the chip maker says.

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Toshiba has announced its first lineup of solid state drives (SSDs), based on NAND flash memory and designed primarily for use in notebook computers.

Toshiba’s first SSDs will be available in 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB capacities and will provide low power consumption, a faster boot time, and light weight, when compared to standard hard drives.

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