Intel has recently expanded their lineup to include some higher capacities and new form factor SSDs that are infused with their latest 64-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory. With this announcement, we were able to get our hands on some of their latest tech, 2TB and 8TB samples of their DC P4510. While these bad boys aren’t the exotic Enterprise …

As the world’s stockpile of data continues to grow, Intel continues to bring to market industry-leading storage and memory products, pushing both form factor innovation and ever-increasing capacity.  Intel’s latest data center offerings, the SSD DC P4510 and P4511 series, are reimagining how data is store for data centers.  With the creation of interesting new form factors, such as the …

Silicon Power is announcing its first foray into PCIe SSDs, with the launch of the P32A80 and the P32A85. These new PCIe SSDs are geared toward high-end systems and offer new levels of responsiveness and performance, making them ideal for large image rendering and intensive graphics editing, musicians needing high volume storage and music library loading, and enterprises that demand …

Things have changed a lot since we have started reviewing SSDs. They have gone from the highest priced parts, only few could afford, to something that almost everyone can buy for a reasonable price…depending on how much space you really need that is. We went from SSDs that were barely faster than HDDs to some that are magnitudes faster than …

Last year, ADATA’s gaming branch, XPG, released their newest product line, the Gammix series, and within that, they released the XPG Gammix S10 M.2 NVMe SSD. This SSD is quite sleek and high-end looking, with its flashy red with black heatsink and blacked out PCB, but its performance doesn’t quite match its looks. Although one would think that because it …

For a media professional, data transfer is everything.  The faster one can move and manipulate media, the more efficient the machine becomes.  We take it for granted really but the massive work to perfect everything you watch on TV is incredible… and the ability to move media quickly is central to efficiency.  This is where Thunderbolt 3 comes in.  TB3 …

Intel has just expanded their 3D NAND infused product portfolio with the release of three new SSDs, the Intel SSD 760P, Intel SSD Pro 7600P, and the Intel SSD E 6100P. The Intel SSD Pro 7600P and Intel SSD E 6100P are built for business and IoT applications, but the focus of today, for us at least, is the Intel …

Toshiba Memory Corporation is starting off its CES 2018 presence by announcing its latest NVMe M.2 SSD, designated as the RC100 Series.  This new SSD offering from Toshiba is geared toward mainstream users, including retail, system integrators and channel markets.  The RC100 Series features Toshiba’s own 64-layer, 3-bits-per-cell TLC (triple-level cell) BiCS FLASH™ combined with an in-house developed controller in …

Toshiba Memory Corporation is announcing its latest addition to its client SSD lineup with the XG5-P 2TB NVMe model.  This premium addition to the XG5 series features improved performance as well as doubling the maximum capacity to 2TB. The XG5-P series of SSDs will also be offered in self-encrypting drive (SED) models that support TCG Opal Version 2.01, making it …

SANBlaze is a leader in innovative storage emulation and validation, and they are announcing the launch of the Dual Port NVMe Drive Test Platform.  This unique appliance enables connection of dual port 2.5” NVMe drives to a host system, which makes a simple to use test and development platform for drive vendors.  This allows for engineering debugging, validation and quality …