Today the doors were opened to the showroom floor of the Flash Memory Summit. We had the opportunity to meet with Silicon Motion, where they had on display their very popular SATA 3 controller, the SM2246EN and the DRAMLess model, the SM226XT, as well as the new SM2260 and SM2256 controllers. A large portion of the Silicon Motion display was …
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Samsung Announces Mass Production of Industry’s First 256-Gigabit 3D V-NAND — Flash Memory Summit 2015 Update
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world-leading producer of advanced memory technology devices, is announcing that it has begun mass production of the industry’s first 256-gigabit three-dimensional (3D) Vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory. This 3D V-NAND is based on 48 layers of 3-bit multi-level cell (MLC) arrays for use in solid-state drives (SSDs). Samsung’s new 256Gb 3D V-NAND flash has double …
Read More »Seagate Announces New Nytro Flash Products To Expand Flash Portfolio — Flash Memory Summit 2015 Update
Seagate Technology plc, a world leading producer of storage devices, is announcing the new Nytro XF1440 (2.5″) and Nytro XM1440 (M.2) NVMe solid state drives (SSDs). Also being announced is the XP6500 Flash Accelerator Card. These latest offerings from Seagate further expand their flash-based solutions portfolio, which are easily combined with Seagate storage products to satisfy nearly any data storage …
Read More »Samsung 850 EVO and Pro 2TB SSD Review – 2TB SSDs Make their Entry
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 …
Read More »Patriot Ignite M.2 SSD Review (480GB) – Single and RAID 0 Tested
It is said that 2015 will be the year of the M.2 SSD form factor and, by all indications, this assumption seems to be correct. This is a very big plus for the SSD industry, as well as a very clear demonstration of the progress we have made in flash technology within the last few years. For instance, our Patriot …
Read More »Intel 750 PCIe SSD Review (400GB)
The Intel 750 is the first NVMe SSD released into the consumer market. It offers users some pretty killer performance at a price point that is roughly twice that of top performing SATA SSDs. Back in April we were able to review the 1.2TB model. After seeing the results we were quite impressed, however, at over $1,000 the 1.2TB model …
Read More »Seagate SandForce SF3500 On Display as Seagate Moves SandForce in a New Direction – Computex 2015 Update
When SandForce emerged from stealth mode in 2009, the SSD industry took on an entirely new look. SandForce was quick, aggressive and as much as many might think they may have introduced things just a bit too early, they played a very large part in shaping the SSD industry into what it is today. They inspired competitiveness and not many …
Read More »OCZ Trion100 To Be Released as Value SSD Solution – Computex 2015 Update
Considering the path OCZ has taken throughout the years from saturating the market space with several different options in their SSD line, right up to their purchase by Toshiba and change of focus to premium SSD releases, most wouldn’t expect an entry level release any time soon. They would be wrong and, although they may be describing this as an …
Read More »Samsung SM951 M.2 SSD RAID Review – Over 4GB/s and 300K IOPS A Consumer Option
I could write a book on the leaps forward we have seen in flash technology within the past few years. Many might argue that it is one of the fastest segments of technology growth today. It touches all of our lives. Without SSDs, or flash technology, the world of cell phones might revert back to flip phones, ultrabooks to 5lb …
Read More »SanDisk CloudSpeed Eco SSD Review (960GB)
When it comes to enterprise SSD storage solutions SanDisk is one of the largest manufacturers out there with a broad range of product to cover the many needs of the this ever growing market. While recent reviews have touched on products that include the words PCIe, SAS, and NVMe, where they offer breath taking performance, there are still many tasks …
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