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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 …

It’s been an incredible start to what is shaping up to be a great year for TSSDR and we hope the same for you.  Here you will find some of the most recent reviews done by our Affiliates. We believe the best way to educate our readers is in providing them with not only our detailed reviews but with input …

Last week we were eager to meet with ADATA’s team at CES 2015. In their suite they had not only some new lighting and hard drive products, but some very interesting SSDs on display. One of these is an enterprise M.2 drive featuring a SandForce SF3700 controller. The SR1020 M.2 2280 SSD is rated for speeds of up to 1800MB/s read and …

I know it may be hard to conceive but the world isn’t just made of flash and tech.  Once again this year, we have been lucky enough to find some gorgeous models to break the SSD news, if only for a bit.  We would like to thank all models very much for their participation once again this year. Check out …

A quick stop and meeting with OWC CEO and Founder Larry O’Connor at the Other World Computing Booth during CES revealed two very interesting new entries to the SSD realm.  First up, OWC is introducing a brand new Envoy Pro Mini USB 3.0 flash drive in capacities of 120, 240 and 480GB and capable of speeds up to 433MB/s. Exterior …