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Toshiba is announcing development of their newest flagship enterprise SSDs, both featuring Toshiba’s latest generation of 64-layer 3D BiCS FLASH™ memory.  The PM5 is a 12Gbit/s SAS series of drives, while the CM5 is their new enterprise NVMe drive.  Both are built with Toshiba’s latest 64-layer 3D 3-bit-per-cell enterprise-class TLC (triple-level-cell) BiCS FLASH™, allowing today’s demanding storage applications to expand …

Intel is announcing the Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X — the first solution that combines the attributes of memory and storage.  The DC P4800X provides an industry-leading combination of high throughput, low latency, ultra-high endurance and high Quality of Service (QoS).  Intel’s innovative new solution creates a new data storage tier that eliminates data access bottlenecks. Intel’s DC P4800X provides …

Toshiba is announcing that they were the fastest-growing hard disk drive (HDD) and solid-state drive (SSD) vendor of 2016.  According to two recent reports from industry analysts IDC, titled “Worldwide Solid State Storage Quarterly Update, CY 4Q16” and “Worldwide 4Q16 HDD Shipment Results and Four-Quarter Forecast Update“, Toshiba was fastest growing vendor in the global $25 billion HDD segment, as …

Western Digital is announcing the SanDisk Skyhawk NVMe-compatible PCIe SSD, their first NVMe-compliant enterprise SSD.  The Skyhawk is optimized to be an ideal balance of consistently fast performance, Quality of Service (QoS), and cost-to-performance value.  The Skyhawk PCIe SSD is geared toward large, unstructured data center workloads in cloud environments. Cloud storage solutions require faster response times and higher throughput, …

Our second meeting today was with Brandon Coles, Product Manager for Edge Memory, to discuss their latest SSD offerings. One key new product is their PFX3, which is a SATA 6Gb/s, 2.5” form factor SSD geared toward the enterprise customer.  As the model designation indicates, this latest SSD from Edge has power fail protection, a key factor required for most …

We had the opportunity this week to meet with LiteOn/Plextor in a suite at the Bellagio. We were shown a presentation outlining the history of LiteOn and Plextor, as well as all of their relevant technologies and future products roadmap. Many people have never heard of LiteOn, as many of their products are sold to OEMs to use in their …

Micron is announcing their latest enterprise SATA SSD lineup, designated as the 5100 series. This new series of enterprise SATA SSDs gives data storage platform designers the ability to future-proof their data storage with ideal combinations of performance, capacity and enterprise-class reliability. The 5100 series provides IT with a realistic upgrade path as storage systems migrate to an all-flash data …

UK-based Integral Memory is announcing that they have partnered up with Novachips to create a new series of solid-state drives (SSDs) that provide superior performance and an exponential leap in capacity.  The first products of this partnership are the SVR-PRO SATA III SSDs, which feature a unique storage control architecture that is ideal for the ever-growing requirement of enterprise data …

Kingston is announcing a new addition to its family of enterprise storage solutions, which they have designated as the Data Center 400 (DC400) solid-state drive (SSD).  The DC400 SSD is meant to be an entry-level enterprise SSD geared toward data center server usage, particularly those users that utilize a rip-and-replace deployment strategy.  The DC400 is an excellent choice for read-intensive …

FADU Inc., a storage startup that is developing NVMe solutions, is making its debut at Flash Memory Summit 2016 in Santa Clara, CA, from 8/9 through 8/11.  At the Santa Clara Convention Center FADU will be exhibiting their first NVMe SSD product, dubbed the FREE™ EC800F, at booth #715.  FADU will also be delivering an interesting presentation on their disruptive …