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Micron Technology, Inc. and Seagate Technology, plc are announcing a strategic alliance combining the expertise and innovative capabilities of both individual companies.  The framework that this agreement establishes will benefit customers of both companies.  The alliance will enable a very focused strategy and faster, more effective innovation in developing industry-leading storage products. The initial focus of the agreement is geared …

On January 29th, OCZ released an important firmware update for their Arc 100 and OCZ-built AMD Radeon R7 SSDs. Kristian Vatto over at AnandTech was good enough to post a detailed recap of what this firmware update is all about. OCZ is listing this update as “mandatory for system stability.” Many firmware updates address more than one concern, and may …

Up until recently, Patriot Memory seemed to have moved back from the SSD scene and become focused on phone accessories and portable devices for their retail makeup. Today is a new day, however, and Patriot enters the SSD arena once again.  Read on as we put the new 480GB Patriot Ignite to the test in our first review of a …

While we are awaiting next gen SSDs featuring SF-3700 controllers, we are still seeing some SF-2200 based SSDs released in the market. A few years ago, SandForce SSDs saturated the marketplace as they were the go to for most companies, however as of late, this has changed. A lot more options are out there for companies to choose from. Companies …

Avago Technologies is announcing two new additions to their Syncro family of high-availability shared storage solutions. Featuring a 12Gb/s SAS interface, these newest Syncro offerings deliver twice the performance of previous generation versions with a 6Gb/s SAS interface. Avago’s Syncro solutions give small and medium businesses (SMBs), data centers and remote offices many of the advanced high-availability features of a …

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 ePoP (embedded package on package) memory. This is a single memory package with 3GB of LPDDR3 (low power double data rate 3), 32GB of eMMC (embedded multi-media card) and a controller. Samsung’s latest ePoP is designed …

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 …

In our last week’s SSD of the Week we covered ADATA’s SP610, a great performing SSD featuring a SM2246EN controller. For this week’s SSD of the Week we have found some great deals on Kingston’s SSDNow V300 SSDs. Currently the 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB models are on sale for low prices of just $52.99, $84.99, and 184.99! The Kingston SSDNow …

SATA 6Gb/s has been a bottleneck for SSDs over the past few years, utilizing multiple SSDs in RAID arrays has been best practice to overcome it. Plextor had seen this problem and originally released the M6e early last year in attempt to target the gamer market. While PCIe SSDs were not uncommon, their product is one of the only easy …

For the latest and greatest action cams or even cellphones like the Note 4, microSDXC cards are essential. With 4K video output becoming a norm and high bit rates following it, flash memory with high write speeds is in great demand. Typical UHS-I U1 cards may not be able to keep up, that is where UHS-I U3 cards come into …

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 …

So I am holding this Samsung Portable T1 1TB SSD in my hand and thinking how far we have come to make possible the actual storage of a quarter million songs, 200,000 pictures, 1 million e-books or 500 hours of video on a device 3/4 the size of a business card and 30 grams in weight. To put that weight …

Every now and then, we are fortunate to have SSDs reach our bench that one might not normally find within every day PC systems or servers.  Our review today of the Super Talent DuraDrive AT7 SSD is just that; a SSD fully intended for the automobile industry, and more specifically In-vehicle Infotainment Systems.  Unlike other examples that we have reviewed …