The SSD market has been healthy lately especially since the dilemma of the HDD market due to last year’s Thailand flooding. Although still significantly priced higher than traditional HDDs, prices of SSDs are now dwindling down and it looks like Intel’s consumer line of SSD, the 330 series will not differ with the rest of the competition.

Thermaltake has announced the Max series of SSD and HDD accessories that incudes that Max 5G 2.5-inch hard drive external enclosure and the Max Duo (SSD & HDD) rack with USB 3.0 ports.

Just like with Sandy Bridge, Intel will also be including SSD caching to the Ivy Bridge platform and since the chip giant will be releasing new chipsets for it, it makes sense to also release a new series of SSDs specifically tailored to work with the company’s SSD caching feature.

Victorinox is known for the quality of Swiss Army Knives that it manufactures but its latest creation does not only have that great quality but also comes with innovative features that come in handy for both the geek and adventurer in mind.

OCZ has announced the release of its firmware update for its Octane SATA 3.0 Series SSDs that significantly improves the random write performance of the said SSDs, even doubling it for some models. This gives owners of the said series of SSDs the chance to push their storage devices further with this free performance enhancement from OCZ.

Kingston has now started shipping its latest V+200 solid state drives that act as good performance upgrade for budget conscious individuals. The solid state drives feature the second-generation high-speed SATA 6Gbps interface and equipped with the SandForce SF-2281 processor.

OCZ, known for its high-performance solid state drive and Marvell, a worldwide leader in silicon solutions has jointly developed the latest innovation in solid state drive solutions, the Z-Drive R5 that makes use of the native PCI-Express interface to deliver high bandwidth capabilities beyond what any traditional SATA SSD will be able to offer.

OCZ has announced that in the following weeks, its new Petrol SSDs based on the Indilinx Everest platform will be available for retail. The new SSDs are said to reduce SSD deployment costs by thirty percent while still featuring all the features of the Indilinx Everest platform.

Intel initially planned the release of its 520 series SSDs, codenamed Cherryville to the market this last quarter of the year but now it seems that the chip giant has pushed the new products to Q1 of 2012 for reasons still unknown.

It seems Intel is finally bringing the long awaited TRIM support for SSDs in RAID 0 to all end users at least according to the information that was published on StorageReview. Apparently, the release notes of the Rapid Storage Technology (RST) 11.5 Alpha version have revealed the plan to include full TRIM support for RAID 0 in the next version of RST.

Corsair gives birth to its new Performance Pro series performance SSDs that makes use of a Marvell SATA 6Gbps controller and provide impressive real world 515MB/s sequential read and 440 MB/s sequential write speeds (based on ATTO disk benchmark).

Kingston has announced the availability of its SSDNow V200 solid state drives that acts as the successor to its V100 series of solid state drives. Like its predecessors, the V200 series of solid state drives are entry-level budget SSDs that aim to offer value and performance to consumers that are looking for an affordable upgrade to their aging old mechanical hard drive.

OCZ has launched the RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS and RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS solid state drives that are designed to deliver maximum throughput in multithreaded applications featuring 4KB random write performance of up to 245,000 IOPS and increased transfer rates of 1900MBps reads and 1725MBps writes.

OCZ has launched its latest offering in the SSD market, the 2.5-inch Octane series SATA 3 and SATA 2 SSDs that are based on the Indilinx Everest platform and are the first to offer storage capacities up to 1TB with matching improved speed and endurance.

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. has announced the availability of their latest Deneva 2 and Intrepid mSATA solid state drives targeting OEM customers who are after high capacities, high performance, and low power consumption storage solutions in a very compact form factor.

Patriot Memory has introduced to the market the second generation of its Pyro SE SATA III SSD that packs the SandForce SF-2281 SSD processor and promises an aggressive price per performance ratio.

Intel is really pushing into the SSD market with its own set of offerings and now it seems that 2012 will be the year when the company will take it up a notch as it has planned out the release of a series of SSD products that caters to every market segment.

ADATA has officially announced the XM13 mSATA solid state drive that comes small and light but feature packed as it incorporates the mSATA memory cache, low power consumption and the latest SandForce SF-2141 controller.

Corsair updates its line of solid state drives with the introduction of the 450GB Force Series GT and 180GB and 450GB Force Series 3 SSDs that all feature SATA 3 6Gb/s connection and provide upgrade options to those who are looking for performance in higher storage capacities.

Fusion-io has unveiled the ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo PCIe solid state drives that target the enterprise market with its high storage capacity and fast read and writes speeds.

OCZ understands the importance of both HDD and SDD in providing the best storage performance. The first provides the large capacities needed by the modern PCs of today as data size gets larger and larger but is still held backed by its limited bandwidth capacity. On the other hand, the second one supplies the speeds that are being demanded by the latest applications and games but is still not capable of reaching large high capacities.

SanDisk has released the Memory Vault solid state drive that is capable of preserving data up to 100 years allowing important data such as pictures, videos and important records be safely stored in a portable storage solution for later uses and security.

OCZ has officially announced its most ambitious product to date, the 1TB RevoDrive Hybrid PCI Express storage solution that incorporates the benefits of both an SSD and HDD to deliver high read/write speeds and high storage capacity adding greatly to overall system efficiency and responsiveness.

Active Media Products has again released another Sabertooth series solid state drive under the name Sabertooth M1 that utilizes the JMF605 SATA controller and NAND Flash technology to achieve sequential read speeds up to 160 MB/sec and write speeds of up to 80 MB/s.

Active Media Products has begun shipping the new 64GB mini 1.8-inch PATA ZIF SSD that is looking to be a great upgrade option for many popular laptops such as the HP Mini 1000.

Corsair has recently unveiled the latest members of Solid State Drive product lineup, the 90GB Force Series and 90GB Force Series GT SSDs featuring SATA 6Gbp/s interface and a SandForce SF-2200 controller.

The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has just announced the latest big project that it has been working on - the so called SATA Express that will utilize the PCI-e interface to provide speeds up to 16Gbp/s which is almost triple the 6Gbp/s that the current SATA 3.0 offers.

Instead of joining the SATA 6.0 Gbps bandwagon that almost every solid state drive manufacturer has been doing, Apacer decided to stay wth the SATA 3.0 Gbps interface with its latest Pro II AS203 solid state drives prioritizing quality and affordability rather than speed.

Team group has joined the trend as it announces its latest product offering not in the familiar RAM market for which it has been known but rather in the SSD segment - Introducing the Xtreem 2.5 inch S2 and S3 SATA 3.0 Solid State Drives that are capable of 550 MB/s max read speed and 520 MB/s max write speeds.

SanDisk has announced the availability of its Ultra series 2.5 inch consumer grade Solid State Drives that comes as a great upgrade from HDD for enthusiasts looking to enhance the performance of their CPUs.