KIOXIA this morning announced their newest XD8 Series Data Center PCIe 5.0 (32GT/s x4) SSDs which will provide up to 73% higher performance than the previous generation, greater scalability and enhanced efficiency. The XD8 is available in 1.92, 3.84 and 7.62TB and the EDSFF E1.S form factor provides for 9.5, 15 and 25mm heat sink sizes. The XD8 provides performances …
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Samsung’s newest SSD release is the 990EVO, a PCIe 5.0 SSD that runs at the lower end of PCIe 4.0 speeds. We have been running it through our test regimen for the last week or so and I have to say this SSD is a bit of an odd duck. It is forwards and backwards compatible as one might expect …
Read More » One of the oldest players in the SSD world is Samsung. They have been around since the beginning and were the first to release SSDs on the retail side way back in April of 2008, right there beside SanDisk. Back then, we had the Samsung 64GB SLC SATA II SSD priced at a high of $1130… for 64GB! Flash memory …
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