Silicon Motion (SMI) has met with success as of late with release of their SM2246EN SATA 3 SSD controller. It was just under a year ago that we sat with Robert Fan to discuss the future of SM2246EN, while today it can be found in the PNY Optima, Corsair LX, as well as the ADATA SP610 of this report. Our …
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Segmented into three series are Samsung’s newest line of SD cards; their naming scheme following their SSD offerings with the Pro and EVO designations. We recently reviewed the 64GB microSDXC version of their highest end Pro and were very impressed with its market leading performance. Following their Pro series, Samsung released the EVO series and Standard series cards. Today we …
Read More » SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading producer of flash storage devices, is announcing that it has completed the previously-announced acquisition of Fusion-io. Fusion-io is a leading producer of flash-based PCIe solid-state devices and software solutions that accelerate performance for enterprise and hyperscale datacenters. Under the agreement’s terms, SanDisk has completed the acquisition for $11.25 per share for the outstanding shares of Fusion-io, …
Read More » Intel is announcing its newest addition to their Solid-State Drive Professional Series, designated as the Pro2500 Series. Intel is touting this new Pro2500 series of SSDs as being “Built for business. Engineered for I.T..” Intel’s Solid-State Drive Professional family strives to achieve “value pillars” that include security and manageability, quality, reliability, stability and power-efficient performance in multiple form factors; along …
Read More » In July of last year, Samsung announced their manufacturing of the XS1715, worlds first NVMe SSD capable of performance of 3GB/s throughput and up to 750,000 IOPS. Unfortunately, the closest anyone has come to that SSD, at least from the review perspective, is through public displays of its progress at both Samsung SSD Summits last fall, and this summer. Having …
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Read More » It’s not every day that we see an SSD that makes us stop and think. After our trip to Computex, we were able to take delivery of something that is fairly unique in terms of enterprise storage. The ALLONE Cloud Disk Drive 101 RAMDisk is not your normal SSD, in fact, it really isn’t an SSD at all. Technically speaking, …
Read More » As fast as SSDs have found mainstream consumer use, they are unfortunately grouped in the same picture as a hard drive, if only for the fact that they are seen as storage and little more. Both the size and demography of our readership paints this picture clearly, however, there exists an amazing opportunity to take our readers a step further; …
Read More » A few days ago, we released our review of the Intel SSD DC P3700 NVMe SSD. This new entry to the enterprise market brought in just under 500K IOPS in a single PCB and single controller design package, a design not needing the traditional RAID solution to achieve performance above 2.5GB/s. As much attention as it gained from the enterprise …
Read More » With the release of the SSD DC P3700, Intel has delivered on the most anticipated piece of storage technology in recent memory. This release is all about NVMe. We have been hearing about NVMe for years, but an end product always seemed just out of reach. We also expected the first devices to be exorbitantly priced enterprise SSDs. While not the …
Read More » A few months ago Samsung launched their new series of SD and microSD cards. They are segmented into three categories. The lowest being their Standard series for the typical every day, non-performance oriented consumer. Next up is their EVO series, marketed towards those who want a little more performance out of their storage with transfer speeds up to 48MB/s. Finally, …
Read More » A few Samsung 845DC Pro reviews popped up rather unexpectedly while most were sidetracked at the Samsung SSD Global Summit in Seoul, South Korea, yesterday, but the biggest news on the 845DC Pro was announced at the event… and a bit unexpectedly we think. Expect pricing of the Samsung 845DC Pro to be anywhere from $1.50 to $2.00/GB. This was …
Read More » Following up on our coverage of the Samsung SSD Summit 2014, we have Samsung’s latest SATA release enterprise solid state drives. On the off chance that you missed our other coverage of the 850 Pro, PCIe and SAS interfaces, fly to our home page for further coverage! Stay tuned for more GREAT coverage of the Samsung SSD Summit 2014 in …
Read More » Following up on our coverage of the Samsung SSD Summit 2014 here in Seoul, South Korea, below are Samsung’s newest SAS interface offerings. Just on the odd chance that you may have missed our previous postings of the Samsung 850 Pro and PCIe Interface first look, check out our website front page for the latest Samsung SSD Summit news!
Read More » By the time this is posted, our review of the Samsung 850 Pro SSD will be live and the world will be seeing the first SSD to use Samsung’s own 3D V-NAND. This morning, we are in beautiful Seoul, South Korea, and guests of Samsung once again for this summit. It’s a beautiful day and, well, it was also a …
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