Enterprise

PCIe SSDs are a funny animal as they have been out for a few years yet haven’t really caught on just yet. They are very limited to either very expensive and system specific enterprise variations or require driver installation that isn’t always as simple as instructions seem. We have yet to see an affordable plug and play PCIe SSD solution …

The Micron P420m, announced earlier this summer, is a half-height, half-length (HHHL) PCIe storage device that augments Micron’s PCIe enterprise storage line. The P420m has a lot to live up to. If you remember back to last October, we reviewed the Micron P320h and came away thoroughly impressed. Massive amounts of speed, endurance and parallelism were at our disposal. With …

So our friends at KingSpec held true to their offer and we just received a brand new KingSpec PCIe SSD from the courier.  This SSD is so new that there aren’t even data sheets available and you won’t find this on the KingSpec site just yet.  Availability to distributors only occurred a few days ago. Specs for the MC2J677M1T list …

At Storage Vision 2013 in January, SMART Storage Systems (a SanDisk Company) made a splash with the announcement of the CloudSpeed 1000 and 1000E enterprise SSDs.  We have been patiently waiting for our chance to put these drives through their paces.  In SSD time, it felt like an eternity but with our previous experience with their Optimus SSDs, we knew …

One of the most exciting things about reporting on solid state technology is being on the cutting edge of advance and having the opportunity to introduce next generation products to the world. This morning is a perfect example of just that and we guarantee our review of the one of the first official 12Gbps SAS SSD will be one of a …

Let’s make it clear right from the start and not mix words when we say that the Intel DC S3500 is an enterprise/data center SSD through and through.  Availability and pricing of the DC S3500 found early on the morning of release, however, is definitely going to tempt more than just the data center crowd.  After all, the Intel DC …

When we first caught wind of the Adaptec Series 7 RAID adapters late last year, we were itching for the chance to get it in our test bench. But, in order to do the review justice, we needed SSDs. We needed a LOT of SSDs. We needed 24 SSDs. Unfortunately, sampling even 4 or 8 SSDs at one time is …

Following in the footprints of our Seagate 600 SSD Review last week, today we are examining the next in line of the Seagate SSD family, the 600 Pro. We had held back on our review of the 600 Pro as we wanted to see how it was going to place in the marketplace before tackling our angle of approach for …

In September of 2012, The SSD Review ventured to Seoul, South Korea  for the public unveiling of the Samsung 840 Pro at the 2012 Samsung SSD Global Summit.  What caught us by surprise during our stay was not the grandeur of the event, or the otherworldly performance of the 840 Pro, it was that Samsung seemingly came out of nowhere with a …

The days when an SSD company could take a basic ASIC design and couple it with MLC are long gone. To be competitive in the current enterprise SSD market, your company must innovate. Over the past few months, we have observed innovation happening on two fronts: ASIC design and NAND technology. Each area presents highly complex problems, which in some …