Tag Archives: NAND

 SuperMicro has achieved up to million IOPS in their SYS-6047R-TXRF servers using STEC’s PCIe SSDs (or SSAs as STEC refers to them, for Solid State Accelerators). These servers are based on the Intel Xeon E5-2600 family of CPUs (Socket 2011) and support up to 512GB of RAM. STEC’s current PCIe offerings are based on their own silicon, and come in PCIe Gen2 …

Samsung has started producing the fastest embedded flash/controller combination around for mobile devices like phones and tablets. Based on their new 2xnm Toggle 2.0 flash, the embedded processor and NAND (referred to as an enhanced multimedia card, or eMMC for short) should greatly enhance storage speeds of phones, tablets, and a bewildering array of other small devices. This newest eMMC, the …

24nm Toggle is hot these days. From the Plextor M3P to the SanDisk Extreme and all points in between, 24nm Toggle from Toshiba is a performance favorite. When we looked at SMART’s XceedIOPS2 earlier this year, the potent combination of enterprise-class SF-2582 controller and 32nm Toshiba eMLC did not disappoint. But in keeping with the times, SMART has seen fit to …

Toshiba has announced it will be cutting back its supply of NAND flash memory. Toshiba didn’t state a specific reason for ramping down production, though they did talk about a general trend when it came to “weak pricing” of storage products meant for consumer electronic devices, presumably due to nothing more than waning demand for what have pretty much become …

Transcend, well known for their myriad storage and memory solutions, has announced the release of its new SSD320 6Gb/s SSD. The LSI Sandforce based drive will deliver read and write speeds of up to 560MB/s and 530MB/s respectively. Also offered is random 4k performance of up to 87,000 IOPS, up from from the 60,000 IOPS seen on most garden variety SF-2281 based …

When you think about SSDs, the first names that come to mind are probably those of bigger companies, such as OCZ, Intel, Samsung, Toshiba, Kingston, and SanDisk…just to name a few. Recently however, a fairly new company named MyDigitalSSD has been making headlines, especially here on The SSD Review. Keeping the trend alive, we take a fresh look at the …

ADATA Technology has announced a new addition to its powerful XPG line of SSDs in the form of the new XPG SX910 SSD, adding on to the XPG SX900 family. Highlighted by ADATA’s new industry leading five year warranty, the XPG SX910 is one of what seems to be only ADATA SSDs to offer the famous LSI SandForce processor name …

The Mac enthusiasts and solid state evangelists over at Other World Computing (OWC) have announced a new 2.5″ SSD with 1024GB of flash onboard. Dubbed the Mercury Electra MAX 3G 960GB SSD, it’s one of the first 1TB 2.5″ drives to hit North America. While the ability to have 1TB of solid state storage in a 2.5″ form factor is sure to be a …

Korean semiconductor fabricator SK Hynix has announced a deal to acquire California’s Link_A_Media Devices. Hynix manufactures NAND flash memory for SSDs and mobile applications in addition to other memory and semiconductor products. Hynix is the second largest memory products manufacturer by revenue behind fellow Korean firm Samsung. Back at Computex, Corsair announced announced a new line of high performance SATA III …

Originally unveiled as the exclusive of Corsair, Link A Media issued a Press Release today opening up business to other potential SSD companies.  First seen in the Corsair Neutron SSD at Computex, the LM87800 6Gbps SATA controller just may be seen upcoming SSDs. Touting features designed to help get new LAMD powered drives to market quickly, the LM87800 could help …