3D NAND
SK Hynix on Thursday introduced its 2nd generation enterprise-grade NVMe SSDs, which are based entirlely on the company's in-house SSD technology. The new drives offer 4 – 8 TB capacities depending on form-factor, and compared to their predecessors offer 30% improve sequential read speeds as well as 70% faster random write speeds. Select customers of SK Hynix have already received the new drives for qualification purposes. SK Hynix’s 2nd gen enterprise NVMe SSDs are based on the company’s Gemini controller – an eight NAND channel design – as well as 72-layer 3D NAND chips marked at H25QFTMG4A9R (these stacks rely 512 Gb 3D TLC NAND devices with a 13.5 MB page size). The drives will be available in M.2 form-factor with up to 4 TB...
The Intel SSD 600p (512GB) Review
Intel's SSD 600p was the first PCIe SSD using TLC NAND to hit the consumer market. It is Intel's first consumer SSD with 3D NAND and it is by...
63 by Billy Tallis on 11/22/2016
ADATA Launches the SD700 External SSD: Dust, Water and Shock Resistant (with 3D NAND)
ADATA last week introduced its third SSD featuring 3D NAND memory. The new SD700 is a dust, water and shockproof drive that has up to 1 TB of capacity...
8 by Anton Shilov on 11/21/2016
Toshiba Finalizes Plans for New 3D NAND Fab: Coming Online in 2019
Toshiba in the past week has finalized plans to build a new production facility to make 3D NAND flash memory. The company will start construction in early 2017 and...
8 by Anton Shilov on 11/15/2016
ADATA Ultimate SU800 SSDs in M.2 Announced: Entry-Level 3D NAND SSDs for Laptops
This week ADATA expanded the lineup of its SSDs featuring 3D NAND memory by announcing its Ultimate SU800 drives in an M.2 form-factor. The new SSDs offer similar performance...
9 by Anton Shilov on 11/4/2016
Western Digital Shows Off Prototype 1TB SDXC Card at Photokina 2016
In recent years we have seen the development of 3D NAND push up the capacity and push down the prices of all sorts of flash devices, from SSDs to...
25 by Ryan Smith on 9/20/2016
Intel Launches 3D NAND SSDs For Client And Enterprise
Today Intel is announcing a variety of new SSDs with their 3D NAND flash memory. The new models use a mix of 3D MLC and 3D TLC, some SATA...
49 by Billy Tallis on 8/25/2016
Micron Cancels Ballistix TX3 NVMe SSD
At Computex in June, Micron announced that Crucial's Ballistix brand was being promoted to a standalone brand for gaming-oriented products. Their exhibit included three tiers of Ballistix DRAM products...
7 by Billy Tallis on 8/18/2016
Marvell Announces NVMe Controller for DRAM-Less PCIe 3.0 x2 SSDs
Marvell has announced its new controller for affordable and miniature SSDs, the 88NV1160. The chip can be used to build small form-factor SSDs in M.2 as well as BGA...
25 by Anton Shilov on 8/17/2016
Maxiotek Unveils MK8115: Low-Cost SSD Controller for 3D NAND SATA SSDs
Maxiotek this week introduced its first SSD controller designed for affordable SSDs with an SATA interface, which is meant to be paired with new types of NAND flash memory...
6 by Anton Shilov on 8/11/2016
Toshiba Announces New BGA SSDs Using 3D TLC NAND
Toshiba has announced a new generation of BG series single-chip SSDs, with a newer controller and expanded capacity options thanks to the adoption of 3D NAND. The BG series...
14 by Billy Tallis on 8/3/2016
Crucial Expands MX300 SSD Lineup with Additional Capacities: Up to 1TB
Crucial this week made two announcements. Its MX300 family of 3D NAND-based consumer-grade SSDs has been expanded with additional models, and also Crucial revealed plans to start sales of...
11 by Anton Shilov on 8/2/2016
Samsung’s PM1633a Now Available: $10k for 15 TB, $6k for 7 TB
Samsung started to ship its PM1633a SSD with 15.36 TB capacity to select customers in March and recently it began to supply the drive to select resellers as well...
42 by Anton Shilov on 7/29/2016
Samsung SM961 Price And Availability Outlook
The SM961 is Samsung's latest high-end client PCIe SSD for OEMs, but as with its SM951 and XP941 predecessors there will be distributors selling the SM961 online to consumers...
50 by Billy Tallis on 6/21/2016
The Crucial MX300 750GB SSD Review: Micron's 3D NAND Arrives
Micron is the second company to the 3D NAND flash milestone, with today's release of the Crucial MX300 750GB Limited Edition. This follows on from two years ago when...
85 by Billy Tallis on 6/14/2016
Micron Launches 3D NAND Client SSDs
Today Micron is announcing their first client/OEM SSDs with 3D NAND. First mentioned at an enterprise announcement event in April, the Micron 1100 and 2100 SSDs are part of...
20 by Billy Tallis on 5/31/2016
Micron Presents New SSDs and Strategy: From Components to Whole Solutions, 3D NAND Shipping Imminent
At Micron's Enterprising event today in Austin, TX, the company discussed several upcoming products and shared information about an ongoing strategic shift. Not content to stay a mere component...
19 by Billy Tallis on 4/12/2016
Intel Rolls Out New PCIe SSDs for Cloud Datacenters
Intel on Thursday introduced several new PCIe SSDs designed for cloud datacenters. The new drives increase capacities, shrink latencies and offer higher throughput in order to follow demands of...
21 by Billy Tallis & Anton Shilov on 3/31/2016
Toshiba to Build New Fab to Produce BiCS NAND Flash
Toshiba this month has announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility to produce its BiCS NAND flash memory. The company intends to start making chips at the new...
5 by Anton Shilov on 3/25/2016
Samsung Begins to Ship 15.36 TB SSD for Enterprise Storage Systems
Samsung on Thursday introduced its new lineup of high-capacity SSDs for enterprises. The new Samsung PM1633a family of drives includes the world’s first SSD that can store 15.36 TB...
44 by Anton Shilov on 3/3/2016
Micron 3D NAND Status Update
Update: We've got some more information and diagrams from Micron's Winter Analyst Conference earlier today. After samples of their upcoming 3D NAND were sighted in the wild at CES, Micron...
19 by Billy Tallis on 2/12/2016
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