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HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), a leading producer of enterprise storage solutions, and a Western Digital company, is announcing its Ultrastar SN100 series of NVMe-compliant PCIe SSDs. Seen here, Mike Gustafson, Senior VP and GM of Virident | HGST, introduces us to the new flash memory products introduced this morning in San Francisco. The Ultrastar SN100 series of PCIe …

Summer has come and gone, and over the past few months, there have been quite a few SSDs released into the market, and the question of, “Which SSD should I buy?” seems to still come up a lot around forums. Usually, there are some predetermined recommended favorite in each. Today we feel we should provide our own answer to the …

Green House, an environmentally-conscious Japanese producer of high-quality and cost-effective consumer electronics products, is announcing its latest SATA 6.0GB/s solid-state drive, designated as the GH-SSD32C.  The GH-SSD32C will feature MLC NAND flash memory managed by a Phison PS3108-S8 controller. The GH-SSD32C comes in the standard 2.5″ x 7mm form factor, making it compatible with both desktop and notebook/laptop PCs.  It …

SSDs have been around for several years now, but some could argue that they have yet to hit mainstream.  When you compare SSD sales today to the hard drive, we could make a case when we state that they are still in their infancy.  The biggest reasoning for this, of course, has been industries lack of ability to find that …

ADATA Technology, a leading producer of high performance DRAM memory and NAND Flash devices, is announcing the ISMS312, its new high-performance SATA III (6Gb/s) 7-pin Disk-On-Module (DOM) solid-state drive (SSD).  The ISMS312 SATA-DOM is geared toward industrial computers, embedded storage applications, medical devices and network infrastructure devices.  The ISMS312 also features industrial-grade S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring capabilities, and is customizable to …

SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading producer of flash storage solutions, is announcing the Ultra II SSD, their first TLC memory equipped SSD, which is being targeted to the mainstream notebook and PC market.  Notebook-compatible SSDs continue to increase in capacity, at the same time as they continue to go down in cost.  More and more laptops and notebooks are shipping with …

With CPUs, graphics cards and memory, solid state drive were only a matter of time for a company such as AMD.  The AMD Radeon R7 SSD adds yet another AMD part to those who like to have matching components in their systems, but it also goes one step further. It takes advantage of a controller that has long been regarded …

Being niche in a dog eat dog tech market can be very risky. Being niche in the SSD industry is straight up crazy as NAND manufacturers price their SSDs so low that 3rd party SSD manufacturers find it very hard to compete; or they shut down.  More than a few companies have slowed, or shut down their SSD production and, …

Historically, Flash-based storage has been considered to be a rather expensive niche technology that is targeted at a rather narrow range of workloads, as opposed to anything resembling mainstream technology.  According to an International Data Corporation (IDC) analysis, the tide is definitely beginning to turn to much broader adoption of Flash-based storage for data center usage.  The momentum for this …

It has been quite a while since we have seen a value oriented SSD from OCZ. Their last two releases where the Vector 150 and the Vertex 460, the latest updates to their enthusiast and mainstream drive lines. The market need for value drives is very apparent when we consider the popularity that the Samsung 840 EVO and Crucial MX100 …