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When Samsung launched its 990 Pro family of SSDs for retail market last year, it only introduced 1 TB and 2 TB models, surprisingly omitting premium high-capacity 4 TB version. Now, the company is about to correct this wrong by launching 4 TB version this fall, the world's largest SSD supplier revealed in an X post. You wanted it so badly, we had no choice but to deliver. The 4TB 990 PRO by #SamsungSSD is coming. Same blazing-fast storage with double the max capacity for gaming, video, 3D editing, and more. Stay tuned for more details. pic.twitter.com/B3iRso9Q3p — Samsung Semiconductor (@SamsungDSGlobal) August 24, 2023 "You wanted it so badly, we had no choice but to deliver," the company's post reads. "The 4TB 990 PRO by #SamsungSSD is...
Patriot Launches P200 SSDs with Maxio and Silicon Motion Controllers: From $31.99
Patriot has introduced its new family of entry-level SATA SSDs offering capacities from 256 GB to 2 TB. The P200-series drives use controllers from Maxio Technology and Silicon Motion...
20 by Anton Shilov on 7/18/2019
SanDisk’s Extreme Pro NVMe 3D SSD Gains Capacity: Up to 2 TB
Western Digital has quietly expanded its SanDisk Extreme Pro M.2 NVMe 3D SSD range with a 2 TB model. The drive offers performance on par with other models in...
7 by Anton Shilov on 7/12/2019
GALAX Announces HOF Pro M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD: Up to 5 GB/s
GALAX has introduced its new flagship SSDs featuring a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface and sequential read performance of up to 5 GB/s. The new HOF Pro M.2 drives will...
14 by Anton Shilov on 7/9/2019
Phison PS5016-E16 PCIe 4.0 SSDs: Random Read/Write Performance Disclosed
We spotted Phison PS5016-E16-based SSDs from over half of a dozen of companies at Computex several weeks ago and we are sure there are many more to come. While...
19 by Anton Shilov on 7/2/2019
SK Hynix Starts Production of 128-Layer 4D NAND, 176-Layer Being Developed
SK Hynix has announced it has finished development of its 128-layer 1 terabit 3D TLC NAND flash. The new memory features the company’s charge trap flash (CTF) design, along...
28 by Anton Shilov on 6/26/2019
Corsair’s PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Found For Pre-Order: MP600 up to 2TB
Amazon Japan has started to take pre-orders on Cosair’s upcoming PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. The MP600 SSDs will ship in mid-July, several days after AMD and its partners start...
37 by Anton Shilov on 6/25/2019
The Kingston DC500 Series Enterprise SATA SSDs Review: Making a Name In a Commodity Market
SATA isn't dead yet. Kingston has kicked off a new generation of enterprise SSDs with a new family of SATA drives built around the new Phison S12DC controller and...
28 by Billy Tallis on 6/25/2019
Silicon Motion’s SM8108: A Next-Gen Enterprise SSD Controller w/ Dual DRAM & 3D QLC Support
Having secured strong positions on the market for consumer SSDs, Silicon Motion is now after the enterprise SSD market. At Computex, the company demonstrated a prototype of an SSD...
7 by Anton Shilov on 6/24/2019
SK Hynix Launches 2nd Gen Enterprise SSD: 72-Layer 3D NAND & In-House Controller
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...
4 by Anton Shilov on 6/21/2019
PNY 2 TB XLR NVMe SSD: PCIe 4.0 x4, Up to 4.8 GB/s
Since many high-end SSDs these days are bottlenecked by a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface, next-generation drives featuring a PCIe 4.0 x4 connector were among the highlights of this year’s...
21 by Anton Shilov on 6/10/2019
Toshiba Announces XG6-P NVMe SSD For Client And Datacenter
Toshiba has announced a new variant of their XG6 client NVMe SSD: the XG6-P that adds a 2TB option to the family. The previous XG5 generation of SSDs followed...
0 by Billy Tallis on 5/29/2019
GIGABYTE Teases PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD in Press Release: 5 GB/s
A press release sent out by GIGABYTE on Friday said that the company would demonstrate one of the industry’s first SSDs featuring a PCIe 4.0 interface at Computex next...
42 by Anton Shilov on 5/24/2019
ADATA Launches XPG Spectrix S40G RGB SSD: Up to 3.5 GB/s and Loads of RGB
When high performance alone is not enough to impress, RGB lights are here to help. ADATA has officially introduced its XPG Spectrix S40G RGB SSD, which offer's the company’s...
10 by Anton Shilov on 5/24/2019
Mushkin’s Helix-L SSDs Available: Pushing the Price of 3D TLC
Mushkin this week said that it had started shipments of its Helix-L SSDs that promise to combine high performance and relatively low prices. The drives use Silicon Motion’s entry-level...
12 by Anton Shilov on 5/22/2019
Kingston Launches Client-Focused KC2000 M.2 NVMe SSD: 96L TLC On SM2262EN
Kingston's latest flagship client/consumer SSD is launching today: the KC2000, which is set to replace the two year old KC1000. The KC2000 was previewed early this year at CES...
3 by Billy Tallis on 5/20/2019
The Team Group MP34 512GB SSD Review: Refining Phison's NVMe Workhorse
Team Group's MP34 is a high-end NVMe SSD based on the familiar combination of the Phison E12 controller and Toshiba 3D TLC, but the price drops enabled by the...
17 by Billy Tallis on 5/15/2019
SMART Modular HRS-T5E: A Ruggedized SATA SSD with AES-XTS 256
SMART Modular has introduced one of the industry’s first ruggedized SSDs based on 3D TLC NAND memory. Aimed at industrial and military customers, the high-reliability 2.5-inch SATA drive incorporates...
4 by Anton Shilov on 5/8/2019
Western Digital Starts Shipments of Client SSDs Based on 96-Layer BICS4 3D NAND
Western Digital has been continuing to ramp up production of its 96-layer BICS4 3D NAND, and the company has already been using this flash memory for various retail storage...
10 by Anton Shilov on 5/1/2019
LaCie Portable SSD and WD My Passport SSD Capsule Review: 2TB SATA SSDs Behind a USB Bridge
The emergence of 3D TLC flash has enabled a new class of budget-friendly bus-powered external SSDs. Flash memory has also seen a recent drop in prices, and this has...
5 by Ganesh T S on 4/19/2019
Patriot Launches Viper VPN100 SSDs: Up to 2TB, Massive Heatsink
Patriot this week started sales of its top-of-the-range VPN100-series SSDs. Prototypes of these drives based on the Phison PS5012-E12 controller were demonstrated at CES 2018, but it took the...
31 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2019
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