SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading producer of flash storage devices, is announcing a new family of automotive grade NAND flash solutions that are geared towards next-generation ‘connected cars’ and their vehicle infotainment systems. SanDisk’s latest automotive NAND storage devices are optimized to provide high-performance, reliable and durable storage to a wide variety of in-vehicle usage applications. These applications include entertainment systems, …

As we previously reported back in mid-October, some Samsung 840 EVO SSD owners were experiencing issues with low read speeds of data that had not been touched or moved for an extended period of time after being written.  In most cases, the data had been present in the flash memory for a period of weeks or months, and as time …

Intel Corporation, a leading producer of solid state drives (SSDs) renowned for their reliability, is announcing the expansion of its data center family of SATA 6GB/s solid state drives to include the Intel SSD DC S3710 and the Intel SSD DC S3610. Both of these new drives offer increased write performance for faster processing of write data in data center …

SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading producer of flash storage devices, has been delivered a preliminary injunction against the continued sale of their current version of UlltraDIMM memory channel storage devices in the United States. These UlltraDIMMs were produced in partnership with Diablo Technologies, who provides the memory controller ICs utilized in their production. The issue at heart is the fact that …

CES 2015 rolls on, and this afternoon finds us at Super Talent’s display. Like a number of other SSD producers, they are finding a new market for their products in the automotive arena.  As vehicles become more technology-heavy, the means to effectively manage that technology needs to keep pace. With the explosion of in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems, the ability to …

Our second private meeting yesterday was at the Aria with Plextor, a leading producer of performance-oriented flash storage devices.  At this meeting they were unveiling two new solid state drives.  The first is the M7e, a Gen 2×4 M.2 SSD, which they are promoting as the fastest SSD in the market today.  There second announcement was of the M6e Black …

We were privileged yesterday to meet with Robert Fan, Vice President and General Manager of Silicon Motion to discuss their latest SSD controller, the SM2256, which features support for TLC NAND.  Historically, TLC NAND has had a reputation of having low endurance and reliability, and hence was not suitable for use in solid state storage devices.  Fast-forward to today, and …

Day two at Storage Visions finds us visiting the SATA-IO booth and talking to Paul Wassenberg. Paul is the Director of Product Marketing for Marvell, and also a SATA-IO board member.  The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) is an independent, non-profit organization developed by and for leading industry companies for the purpose of providing the industry with guidance and support for …

Next up at Storage Visions 2015 is a visit with LiteOn Technology Corporation, who is both an OEM supplier and also offers products under its own brand. They have been much more aggressive in the last couple of years in developing and marketing SSDs under the LiteOn label. Our meeting today was with Darlo Perez, managing director at LiteOn, and …

Today finds us at Storage Visions 2015, and first up is a meeting with Diablo Technologies.  We met with Jerome McFarland, principal product marketer for Diablo, who brought us up to speed on the latest developments with the NvDIMMs and Memory Channel Storage (MCS).  Diablo has partnered with the likes of SanDisk, IBM, Lenovo and SuperMicro to offer NvDIMMs. NvDIMMs …