We previously thought that OS X wouldn’t see TRIM support until Lion came out later this year. But as it turns out, Apple slipped it in to the 10.6.6 build currently shipping with new Macbook Pros. [Apple Insider]
OS X’s secure delete, which overwrites data multiple times so snoops can’t recover them even if they have access to your hard drive, turns out to not work with SSDs. The problem? SSD write algorithms are different, because the physical media is different, but also to preserve its lifespan. The end result though is 2/3 of a file can be recoverable. [ZDnet]
At first glance you wonder if this USB key needs to go on a diet. Like something from ten years ago, it seems much bigger than it needs to be. Oh, but then you find it’s packing 120GB in there, and will dump it all at a rate of 260MB/s. Suddenly it’s not a big USB key, it’s a tiny external SSD.
These Force Series SSDs from Corsair have up to 280MB/s reads and 260MB/s writes, which are supposedly “class-leading”. Even if it’s not the fastest solid state drives on the market period, it’s the fastest Corsair’s ever made.
Speed. Toughness. Efficiency. Silence. That’s why we want solid-state drives in our computers. But we worry about the zoom-zoom performance degrading over time, and the fact that SSDs might eventually wear out. Here’s what you need to know about ‘em.
We travelled to the desert wilds of Vegas, to watch ioSafe literally GO CRAZY in their thirst to prove that their Solo SSDs are tougher than Rambo. It survived being set fire to, drowned and crushed under 25 tonnes of weight.
A few weeks ago, Intel pulled a firmware update the day after it came out because many users running 64-bit Windows 7 found that it bricked their SSDs. Whoops. The good news though is that Intel has acknowledged and replicated the bug, and is working on a fix. The bad news? There’s no timeline for when the fix will come out. [Reg Hardware]
