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ADATA Hosts Production Factory Tour in China

Well, it has been a few days and we are finding much the same routine as before Computex, but we have to say that Computex was full of highlights this year.  For me personally, three top events have to be my visit to the China for a bit of sightseeing and the ADATA Factory Tour, trip down to the south …

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EDGE Memory Announces Made-In-The-U.S.A. 7mm Edge Revolution SSD

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EDGE Memory, a leading U.S.-based designer and producer of storage and memory devices, is announcing the release of their newest solid-state drive (SSD) — the EDGE Revolution 7mm.  EDGE’s Revolution SSD is made in the U.S.A., and is TAA (Trade Agreements Act) compliant, becoming one of the first of its kind available on today’s market.  The high-performance Revolution SSD is …

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ADATA XPG SDXC UHS-1 U3 Card Review (64GB)

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With all the new Ultra HD (4K2K) video cameras coming out to the market such as the Canon 1-D C and Panasonic Lumix GH4,  media professionals need faster writing and larger capacity memory cards. While normal UHS-I U1 and Class 10 cards are fine for normal 1080p HD video recording, a minimum write speed of 10MB/s doesn’t cut it for …

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TSSDR Affiliate Reviews for June 9, 2014

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With Computex 2014 now behind us, it’s time to start focusing on the summer.  That means a whole lot of different things to a whole lot of different people.  I like to think of focusing on summer as focusing on me, beach volleyball, running team and anything else I can do outdoors. I hope that you take the time to …

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Kingston Computex HyperX OC Takeover Girls 2014

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This year at Computex 2014 in Taipei, Taiwan, Computex held what could be considered one of the greatest invite tickets to any tech event for some time, The Kingston Product Release and HyperX OC Takeover at the Kelti Tower in Taipei. We have already covered this event here, here and here, but thought we might return once more as there …

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MyDigitalSSD Announces World’s First 256GB SATA M.2 2242 SSD — Computex 2014 Update

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MyDigitalSSD is announcing the MyDigitalSSD Super Boot 256GB M.2 2242 NGFF SSD — the world’s first offering of a 256GB capacity in the M.2 2242 form factor.  The latest addition to their Super Boot series of SSDs offers industry-leading performance and reliability in addition to the larger storage capacity.  The MyDigitalSSD Super Boot M.2 2242 256GB is an ideal upgrade …

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Kingston Digital Announces M.2 2280 SATA SSD — Computex 2014 Update

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Kingston Digital Inc., the Flash memory division of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., and world-leading producer of memory devices, is announcing a new M.2 2280 SATA solid-state drive (SSD).  With shipments to begin in the second week of June 2014, the new 22mm x 80mm M.2 dimensions create a compact, thin and caseless form factor that is ideal for newer notebook …

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Silicon Motion Announces SM2246EN Controller Support For Micron 16nm 128Gb MLC NAND — Computex 2014 Update

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Silicon Motion Technology Corporation, a leading designer and producer of NAND flash controllers for solid state drives (SSDs), is announcing that its SM2246EN SATA 6Gb/s SSD controller now supports the latest 16nm 128Gb MLC NAND from Micron.  The combination of the SM2246EN and the Micron 16nm 128Gb NAND is ideal for high performance SSDs up to 1TB in capacity. According …

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Plextor Shows Off M6Pro SSD With PlexTurbo Caching at 5.9GB/s – Computex 2014 Update

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Our friends at Plextor jumped into the big leagues this week at Computex 2014 by introducing their newest PlexTurbo caching software pushing write performance up to an unbelievable 5.9GB/s write speeds from a single M6 Pro SSD. Not only is this caching software the first true competitor to Samsung’s RAPID software, but also, it simply annihilates RAPID. For those who …

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JMicron Displays M.2 PCIe SSDs – Computex 2014 Update

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Our meeting with JMicron this morning at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, met with the introduction of two new M.2 PCIe SSD controllers to the SSD arena, the JMicron JMF810 and JMF811.  The 810 is a PCIe X2 (two lane) controller, while the 811 (PCIe X4) will stand beside that of LSI SandForce (SF3700) and Marvell (Altaplus) in Q4 of this …

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