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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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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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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SanDisk Corporation today released SSD SATA 5000 2.5-Inch, its new flash memory-based solid state drive with 32GB of data storage capacity, as a drop-in replacement for traditional laptop hard disk drives.

Along with 2.5-inch form factor and a Serial ATA interface, the new SanDisk SSD offers “six times” greater reliability than standard HDDs, as well as faster system boot times, better power efficiency and cool and quiet operation, since this drive has no moving parts found in hard drives.

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Intel Corporation announced today its entry into solid state drive (SSD) market with the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive, which will be used in a variety of Intel-based computing platforms, such as servers, emerging market notebooks and low-cost, fully featured PCs.

Intel’s Z-U130 Value SSD is based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces and comes with 1GB, 2GB, 4GB or 8GB of storage capacity. It provides read speeds of 28MB per second and write speeds of 20 MB per second.

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