New SAS SSD from Pliant Radeon HD 5770 and 5750

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New SAS SSD from Pliant   Posted on 15/09/2009 at 14:04 by Marc - source: Pliant

	The US company Pliant has announced two new SSD hard drives designed for the pro market (companies). Equipped with SLC flash memory, the Lightning LB and the Lightning LS come in 2.5" and 3.5" formats respectively. They both use the SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interface with a double 3 Gbits/s port. The Lightning LB has a capacity of 150 GB while the LS offers 300 GB. The most significant thing is the performances however: reads of 525 MB/s and writes of 340 MB/s for the LS and 420 MB/s and 220 MB/s for the LB. Both drives consume 3.9 watts in idle and up to 7.9 watts in load (5.9 watts maximum for the LB). The MTBF has been announced at 2 million hours and the price, not yet published, will no doubt be high, given the SLC flash used, the performance levels and the target market.

Radeon HD 5770 and 5750   Posted on 15/09/2009 at 10:40 by Marc - source: VR-Zone

	While the Radeon HD 5870 and 5850 should arrive within the next week, the first information on the mid-range ATI DX11 architecture cards is starting to filter through. The Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 will replace the Radeon HD 4770 and 4750 and they should be a respective 1.6x and 1.2x up on these. No doubt with different clocks and a different number of processing units, the two chips share the following characteristics: - 40nm engraving - DirectX 11 - EyeInfinity Support - ATI Stream - Unified Video Decoder 2 - 1024 MB of GDDR5 on a 128 bit bus A 450 watt minimum power supply will be needed for a single card configuration with a 600 watts minimum power supply in CrossFire. Each card uses a 6-pin PCI Express connector and will be CrossFire compatible. The cards based on the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 will be available as of October at 120 and 160 euros. They should therefore be the no. 1 competition for the NVIDIA GT215 planned for release at the same time.