In December, ADATA announced the first ever SSD to feature Micron’s latest 3D MLC NAND, Ultimate SU900, which is a huge announcement because Samsung will no longer be the only player in the market with 3D MLC NAND ( ie 850 PRO). Thanks to the high-density of this latest NAND, ADATA is able to bring to market capacities of up to …
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WD Unveils WD Black PCIe NVMe SSD – CES 2017 Update
After stepping into the WD suite at CES this year we saw quite the array of storage products. From traditional mechanical disks and NAS storage devices to USB drives and the like, WD has devices for anybody’s needs. Recently we reviewed their first SSD product, the WD Blue SSD and at the same time, they launched the green series too. …
Read More »Seagate and LaCie Showcase Latest SSD Products – CES 2017 Update
LaCie, as many of you know, is Seagate’s premier/professional product brand. At CES they have on display their latest product updates, which feature upgraded interfaces and performance improvements. The Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C can connect to USB 3.0-compatible computers as well as to USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 models. It also comes with an integrated Thunderbolt cable that is compatible with first-generation …
Read More »Longsys Displays Ultra Small SDP (SATA Disk in Package) SSD
Of particular interest at CES 2017 this week was our meeting with Longsys who was showing off a new design of theirs called the SATA Disk in Package (SDP). The SDP is a very small SSD that contains the SATA connector, a Marvell 88NV1120 DRAM-less controller, as well as 3D TLC memory. Having the SDP in hand, we could see …
Read More »Toshiba Displays BG Ultra Mobile NVME SSD – CES 2017 Update
If there is anything that has become apparent in the flash industry, it is that smaller is better. The smaller the memory footprint; the more we can store in a given storage device. A great example of this has been seen with microSD cards as well as the more typical iPhone where we can now find storage of 128GB which …
Read More »Kingston Reveals World’s Largest Flash Drive and More – CES 2017 Update
CES 2017 and all the chaos that comes with it has just begun. One of our first booth tours is with Kingston, where they just revealed the world’s largest flash drive, the DataTraveler Ultimate GT. Just how big is this flash drive? It comes in 1TB and 2TB in capacities! Made out of a zinc alloy metal casing and high-density …
Read More »Intel 600P M.2 NVMe SSD Review (512GB) – Is It THE Budget NVMe SSD to buy?
Back in April of 2015 Intel was the first company to release an NVMe SSD into the consumer marketplace. The Intel 750 was the new standard in PCIe performance storage. Now, with the greater support for M.2 devices, however, Intel decided it was time to release a new NVMe product, one that is much more compact and a much more economical …
Read More »Corsair Announces Force Series MP500 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD – Their Fastest Ever Series of SSDs!
Corsair is announcing immediate availability of their newest flash storage product, designated as the Force Series MP500 range of M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs. With sequential read speeds of up to 3000 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 2400 MB/s, the Force Series MP500 represents Corsair’s fastest-ever solid state storage devices. This level of performance is some 5 X …
Read More »Micron Announces 5100 Series of Enterprise SATA SSDs With Tunable Drive Performance
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 …
Read More »PNY CS2030 M.2 NVMe SSD Review (240GB) – Our First Look at Phison’s E7 Controller
The PNY CS2030 M.2 NVMe SSD comes out of the blue for us. The day it was released, we were more surprised than anyone. Not a whisper in the world about it had crossed our ears like it normally would. Not even our colleagues knew about it. With reading about its high-performance specifications on retail websites and seeing potential customers …
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