Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world-leading producer of advanced memory devices, is announcing three additions to its industry-leading portfolio of enterprise and data center SSDs, based on their 3D V-NAND technology. Designed for OEMs, the PM1633, PM1725 and PM953 are TCO-optimized, high-performance SSDs that utilize Samsung’s 3-bit MLC V-NAND flash memory that also provides strong reliability and high capacities. According …

The Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., a global technology leader, is announcing three separate new families of PCIe solid-state drives that use the NVMe protocol, that are geared toward various usage scenarios, including high-performance notebooks, thin notebooks, 2-in-1 / convertible notebooks, all-in-one tablets and PCs; and also server and general storage applications. All three of …

This year at FMS it really shows just how close Toshiba and OCZ are based upon their booth location. Right near the entrance you have Toshiba’s grand display, but at first glance the OCZ section is almost impossible to see. After circling back twice, their section finally caught our eye. Even though they are hidden away, OCZ has sure did …

If you look back over the past several years, there have always been three constants that needed to be addressed in order for SSDs to become a viable consumer solution to storage; value, reliability and capacity.  One of our first SSD reviews was on an MTron 32GB SSD with a whopping price tag of more than $1500…and they sold!  Both …

As much as the common theme with SSD manufacturers has been to ‘wait for the Flash Memory Summit’ at Computex 2015 this year, Phison seems to be ready to make serious position play in the SSD space, displaying a number of SSD designs at their suite.  First and foremost, we were more than happy to see two NVMe SSDs based …

Our visit to the ADATA booth at Computex 2015 this morning was rather interesting as it was the second time in two days that we saw a manufacturer introduce an external SSD with the newest USB 3.1 included, providing for much higher transfer speeds.  As new and unique as USB 3.1 is, it is (at least in my opinion) somewhat …

To date, there is not a M.2 NVMe SSD on the market for retail purchase.  In fact, one would still be hard pressed to find PCIe X4 M.2 SSDs available at the retail level, but for 3rd party sales of the Samsung XP941 and newest SM951 series M.2 SSDs.  OCZ hopes to change this soon enough and reserved this news …

The Samsung SM951 is one of the fastest SSD solutions out for those with a need for speed. It offers speeds that put most SSDs to shame and does it in a small M.2 2280 form factor. Last week we took a look at the 512GB variant that utilizes the AHCI host controller interface. To say the least, the performance …

Intel Corporation, a leading producer of high-reliability solid-state storage devices, is announcing availability of its latest addition to their Data Center Family of SSDs – the DC S3510 Series. As the technology related to hyper-converged storage continues to evolve, enterprises are more and more turning to virtualized applications to provide high-performance services to their end users. Along with the increased …

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, world-leading producer of advanced memory devices, is announcing that it has begun mass production of the industry’s first NVMe PCIe solid-state drive (SSD) in the M.2 form factor for PCs and workstations. Samsung is also announcing that they are the industry’s first to begin shipping NVMe SSDs to OEMs for use in their PCs. Samsung’s new …