Archive for 'SSD Concepts'

RealSSD C300 Demo: MacBook® Side-by-Side

We’ve seen a lot of interest in our C300 SSD from Apple users, so we put two identical MacBooks side by side to show the huge performance gains possible with a RealSSD C300 drive. There are a lot of thorough performance benchmarks out there—our effort here was to create a simple video that shows what [...]

Crucial Launches RealSSD™ C300 Drives

Now available through crucial.com—the RealSSD C300 client drive that everyone’s talking about. Crucial is offering the 2.5” drive in 128GB and 256GB densities (priced at $499.99 and $799.99, respectively). Visit crucial.com for more information.

RealSSD C300—The Mac Experience

I haven’t used a Macintosh that didn’t have an internal hard drive since I played around with a Macintosh Plus in 1986.  Now the 13″ MacBook Pro that I use here at the office is missing one … and I couldn’t be happier.

RealSSD Wins at Storage Visions

RealSSD C300 just took home the award for best Home Consumer Electronics Storage product at the Storage Visions conference in Las Vegas

The C300 RealSSD™ Drive—Available Soon at Crucial.com

We created quite a buzz when we announced the C300 RealSSD drive last month—the world’s fastest client SSD. Following the announcement, many of you were eager to know: Where can I buy it? How soon will they be shipping? Today, we have answers to those questions. I’m happy to announce that Lexar Media will be [...]

AS Benchmarks for RealSSD C300

We received a couple requests to show the AS benchmark results for the new drive. So we asked Todd to provide a couple screen shots of the results–and here they are.

You asked for it: RealSSD C300 random IOPs

A lot of people are excited about the C300 demos we posted yesterday, and number of you asked to see the random write IOPs numbers for the new drives. So I’ve asked one of our Apps guys, Todd, to take some video of the C300 running through the IOMeter test.

RealSSD C300 goes head-to-head with a hard drive in everyday tasks

By now you’ve seen the benchmarks, but to show you how that speed translates to the real world, we pitted our 256GB C300 SSD against a 7200rpm HDD in identical systems. We then tackled a handful of everyday tasks—boot up, file copy, and opening large files in Adobe® Photoshop®.

Benchmarking the World’s Fastest Client SSD

To prove it, we ran a few standard benchmarking tools (PCMark Vantage’s disk suite and the classic disk benchmark ATTO) on identical systems

Announcing the new RealSSD C300

To explain why today’s announcement of Micron’s new RealSSD C300 is a game-changer for speed and storage in notebook and desktop PCs, I asked our SSD expert, Dean Klein, to share some of the thinking that went into the product and what you’ll experience the first time you boot up a computer with a RealSSD C300 inside.