Good news for fans of SSDs. The regiment arrived intensive solutions. Fixstars Company announced the imminent release of a model Fixstars SSD-6000M. Let’s look at the new model more closely.

What is product different from the competition? A decent amount. 6 TB is a real record for the 2.5-inch platform. In selling the device will appear in June. The price has not been revealed. Let’s look at the other features of the device.

Specification of the Fixstars SSD-6000M

If we talk about the speed of reading, it is equal to 540 MB / s. Writing is a little slower is 520 MB / s. SSD is connected to the computer via the interface SATA-600.

What can achieve such indicators? Engineers Fixstars memory device equipped with MLC NAND (with 15 nm process technology). In addition, the corporate controller was used to guarantee the stable operation. In the “sleep” mode, Fixstars SSD-6000M consumes only 3 watts. In the “full speed” – 6 watts.

It is worth mentioning the outside of the case. The 97-ounce drive can boast a solid metal housing. Its thickness is 9.5 mm.

Conclusion of the Fixstars SSD-6000M

As far as new Fixstars SSD-6000M good in real life? We’ll know after the release when to publish tests. However, at first glance – an interesting proposal.

Source: Myce

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In the arsenal of the developers of LaCie has another protected drive. Namely – the updated model Rugged Thunderbolt. This SSD meets military standards of safety.

Storage Capacity of 1 TB, which is twice the amount of the previous version. Plus – the engineers were able to keep the weight and dimensions unchanged.

The device is equipped with a magnificent cover class IP54. He is not afraid of dust, water and dirt. Even a fall from a height of 2 meters will not bring the novelty of the system.

With regard to data rate, it is quite high – about 387 MB / sec. Download 100 GB of data takes no more than 5 minutes.

Rugged Thunderbolt can be connected to any PC – Mac or Windows. To synchronize the interfaces are USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt.

In addition, SSD easily encrypts using the application Private-Public and 256-bit encryption algorithm AES.

Price of the device Rugged Thunderbolt – 949,99 USD.

Source: LaCie

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Silicon Power is a brand that we know mainly for external drives, high-performance products are often characterized by an attractive design and a good price / performance ratio. No exception to the new Palm Drive Thunder T11, external SSD with Thunderbolt interface, as can be seen easily from the name, is characterized by super-compact dimensions proof “palm”.

With a chassis measuring just 74 x 62 x 15 mm and weighs 65 grams, the drive is in fact on the palm of one hand, while providing a rather nice design with aluminum chassis. Good performances that allow you to achieve a transfer rate of 380 to 340 MB / s in read-write, all without any noise and compatibility 

Currently we have no information on price, Silicon Power will release soon the product on the official channels in 120 GB version and with three-year warranty.

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During the event the IDF in 2013, which will open its doors on September 10, Intel has promised to demonstrate methods of dispersal SSD. Unfortunately, Intel has not yet reported the details, but it is theoretically possible.

Solid-state drives based on flash-based memory such as NAND, the performance of which, like the performance of memory chips, processors and graphics cards, is determined by factors such as clock frequency and timings. Chips NAND, which make up the SSD, not a fast or slow – it’s just an array of memory cells. For speed data reading or writing data to or from the cell controller responds. Like other components of the PC, which to disperse, some of these NAND chips can operate at higher speeds and aggressive timings.

In theory, it is possible to modify the firmware of the controller and make the flash memory to operate at a higher frequency and at higher voltages.

Journalists resource Myce have found direct evidence of this statement concerning the existence of overclocking SSD in the source code software Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel XTU). Some lines of code in shedding light on the processor giant plans. The first line (image above) indicates that users will be able to set their own operating frequency in MHz controller. The description says: “Set the frequency of the microcontroller in the production of certain SSD Intel, which can increase the performance of the drive.” The second line shows the three modes of supply SSD: «limited,” “Normal” and “unlimited”. The bottom line is, in turn, points to the fact that users will also be able to set the bus speed of NAND in the range of 83 MHz to 100 MHz. Here, as in the first case, there is a description: “Set the frequency of the memory bus in the production of certain SSD Intel».

What is interesting is that in both cases there is a clarification of certain production drives Intel.

This feature can be interesting for enthusiasts who are willing to sacrifice the stability of the drive in exchange for a performance boost. However, there is still listen to Intel, it is possible that the company’s specialists have learned to accelerate SSD without reducing the life of the drive.

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Samsung 840 EVO launched a total of five capacities, namely 120/250/500/750GB and 1TB, uses 1xnm processes Toggle 2.0 TLC particles 840 to 21nm Toggle 2.0 TLC, while the 840 Pro is the 21nm Toggle MLC, in addition controller is also from the MDX replaced MEX.

The most outstanding feature of this 840 EVO should be 120GB parts. Get rid of the past Samsung 840 120GB write only 130MB / s case, the new 840 EVO 120GB written partly because one called “TurboWrite” function, and upgraded to 410MB / s, the same time part of the overall IOPS also slightly improved.

The Samsung 840 EVO 840 Pro in IOPS performance was slightly pale, but the warranty is also reduced from five years to three years.

The Roadmap from Intel or Samsung SSD Global Summit released product point of view, high-capacity SSD will be the trend of various manufacturers, as to whether it will replace the traditional hard drives, both on the current observations will continue in parallel, mainly at the same level or higher than the price of SSD traditional hard drives, so the current probability of being replaced is still quite low.

On the other hand, Samsung also released a 2.5-inch NVMe (Non-Volitile Memory Express) SSD XS1715, is the first use SFF-8936 interface 2.5-inch SSD, this series has 400/800GB and 1.6TB capacities of three, of which 1.6 TB products can provide 3,000 MB / s read speed and 740K IOPS of RANDOM Read.

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