Storage
Lexar has a long history of serving the flash-based consumer storage market in the form of SSDs, memory cards, and USB flash drives. After having started out as a Micron brand, the company was acquired by Longsys which has diversified its product lineup with regular introduction of new products. Recently, the company announced a number of portable SSDs targeting different market segments. The Lexar ARMOR 700 Portable SSD makes its entry as the new flagship in the 20 Gbps PSSD segment. Despite its flagship positioning and rugged nature, the ARMOR 700 is reasonably priced thanks to the use of a native USB flash controller - the Silicon Motion SM2320. Similar to the SL500, the product uses YMTC 3D TLC NAND (compared to the usual Micron...
Plextor Releases M6e Black Edition PCIe SSD, Shows Off Upcoming M7e PCIe SSD & TLC SSD
Continuing with our CES SSD coverage, Plextor released a new M6e Black Edition PCIe SSD at the show. Unfortunately, the Black Edition offers nothing new in terms of the...
1 by Kristian Vättö on 1/15/2015
QNAP Releases Haswell-based TVS-x71 and Cortex-A15-based TS-x31+ NAS Lineups
QNAP took the SMB / SOHO NAS market segment by storm with a host of CES announcements. The release of the AMD G-series SoC-based TVS-x63 was undoubtedly QNAP's major...
6 by Ganesh T S on 1/14/2015
Samsung Launches SM951 M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD for OEMs/SIs
Back at Samsung SSD Global Summit in July, Samsung showed off the SM951 for the first time. The drive has then created a lot of interest because the Z97...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 1/14/2015
ioSafe Updates Disaster-Resistant Storage Lineup at CES 2015
At CES 2015, we got the chance to sit down and talk with the folks over at ioSafe. Their disaster-resistant storage devices are unique in the market. We reviewed...
3 by Ganesh T S on 1/14/2015
Mushkin Releases New Striker SSD, Displays an Upcoming M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD
Mushkin had a couple of new and upcoming products in its suite during CES. The first one is a new Striker SSD, which uses Phison's S10 controller coupled with...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 1/13/2015
ADATA CES Suite Tour: PCIe & TLC SSDs, Power-Loss Protection Demo, 256GB SD Cards, USB 3.1 And More
I stopped by ADATA's suite last week to see what the company has been up to in the past six months. While ADATA didn't release or announce anything new...
9 by Kristian Vättö on 1/12/2015
Asustor's 5 Series Packs Intel Bay Trail Celerons
Since last CES, a couple of Asustor offerings have been put under our review scanner, and we were naturally excited to meet up with them at CES 2015. Towards...
3 by Ganesh T S on 1/12/2015
AMD Enters NAS Market with QNAP's 10G-Ready TVS-x63
QNAP's CES suite was quite busy when we visited them last week. Considering the number of product and feature announcements that were made, it wasn't a surprise at all...
21 by Ganesh T S on 1/11/2015
OCZ Suite Tour: Vector 180, JetExpress PCIe NVMe Controller & Z-Drive 6000
While the Barefoot 3 platform is already a couple of years old, it is still going strong. OCZ has been in the process of adopting Toshiba's latest A19nm to...
26 by Kristian Vättö on 1/9/2015
Crucial Announces MX200, BX100 SSDs & SSD Toolbox
Crucial's MX100 has been one the most successful SSDs on the market. Its very aggressive pricing along with decent performance and great feature set has made it an excellent...
32 by Kristian Vättö on 1/8/2015
Seagate and LaCie at CES 2015
Seagate acquired LaCie a couple of years back. We saw some complementary product lineups last year, but this time around, the integration seems to be well and truly complete...
9 by Ganesh T S on 1/7/2015
Corsair Unveils New Flash Storage Solutions
In their long list of new product announcements today, Corsair is also upgrading their top performance SSD drives lineup with the release of the Neutron XT SSDs. We already...
0 by E. Fylladitakis on 1/6/2015
Synology's BeyondCloud Series - NAS Units made User-Friendly
Synology has put out some interesting updates (both expected as well as unexpected) in the lead up to the new year. At CES 2015, the focus is on a...
12 by Ganesh T S on 1/6/2015
Samsung Releases External T1 SSD
Traditionally the external flash storage space has been run by so called second tier OEMs that basically just buy the controller and NAND from third parties and then do...
22 by Kristian Vättö on 1/5/2015
SanDisk Announces Entry-Level SSD Plus & Ultra II mSATA
Back in September SanDisk launched the Ultra II for the mainstream market and it's been doing pretty well in the market so far. Today here at CES SanDisk is...
10 by Kristian Vättö on 1/5/2015
QNAP TS-853 Pro 8-bay Intel Bay Trail SMB NAS Review
QNAP has focused on Intel's Bay Trail platform for this generation of NAS units (compared to Synology's efforts with Intel Rangeley). While the choice made sense for the prosumer-targeted...
58 by Ganesh T S on 12/29/2014
HGST Deskstar NAS 6 TB Review
The increasing affordability of SSDs has put a strain on the traditional market for hard drive vendors. However, hard drives continue to remain the storage medium of choice for...
36 by Ganesh T S on 12/23/2014
Crossbar's Resistive RAM Technology Reaching Commercialisation Stage
While the first 3D NAND chips have just found their way to the market and most NAND manufacturers are still developing their designs, there are already a handful of...
65 by Kristian Vättö on 12/21/2014
Holiday Guides 2014: COTS NAS Units
We have already published holiday guides for mobile devices, motherboards, GPUs and SSDs. Today, we will take a look at the various options available in the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS...
26 by Ganesh T S on 12/17/2014
Best SSDs: Holiday 2014
We published our last 'Best SSDs' article in July and to be completely honest the core of my recommendations has remained unchanged, but there are a couple of new...
38 by Kristian Vättö on 12/15/2014
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