SSDs
Today Western Digital is announcing a major expansion of their WD Black family of gaming-oriented storage products. In a digital event later today on Twitch, Western Digital will introduce their first PCIe Gen4 SSD, a new high-end PCIe Gen3 SSD, and their first Thunderbolt Dock. WD Black SN850 PCIe Gen4 SSD The new WD Black SN850 is Western Digital's first PCIe 4 SSD and the successor to their WD Black SN750. The SN850 features Western Digital's second generation in-house NVMe SSD controller and can hit speeds of 7GB/s (sequential) and 1M IOPS (random). The SN850 will initially be available as a standard M.2 NVMe SSD, suitable for gaming PCs and expected to work in the upcoming Sony PS5. Western Digital is also working on a version...
Goke Unveils Toshiba XL-Flash-Based NVMe SSDs: Ultra-Low Latency
Goke Microelectronics has introduced its new NVMe SSDs based on Toshiba’s XL-Flash NAND memory. The new drives are aimed at applications that require an ultra-low latency as well as...
8 by Anton Shilov on 10/2/2019
ASUS Shows Off ROG Strix Arion: A RGB USB 3.2 Gen 2 M.2 SSD Enclosure
Having extended its ROG products family from motherboards and graphics cards to pretty much everything that could interest demanding gamers and prosumers with deep pockets, ASUS continues to find...
21 by Anton Shilov on 9/27/2019
Intel Announces SSD 665p: Denser, Faster QLC NAND
Intel's Memory and Storage Day event today in South Korea was mostly focused on enterprise and datacenter products, but they did announce an upcoming consumer SSD: The Intel SSD...
27 by Billy Tallis on 9/26/2019
Intel Shares New Optane And 3D NAND Roadmap - Barlow Pass DIMMs & 144L QLC NAND in 2020
At a press event today in South Korea (?!) Intel shared plans for many of their next round of storage products, including the second generation of Optane enterprise SSDs...
14 by Billy Tallis on 9/25/2019
Western Digital to Exit Storage Systems: Sells Off IntelliFlash Division
Western Digital this week announced that it has made a strategic decision to leave the market for dedicated storage systems, as further development of its IntelliFlash and ActiveScale businesses...
8 by Anton Shilov on 9/20/2019
ADATA Releases the XPG SX8100 SSD: Make It Fast & Hold the Bling
While many gaming-branded components come adorned in RGB LEDs, there is thankfully still a market for plainer and saner products. To that end, ADATA has introduced its new family...
4 by Anton Shilov on 9/20/2019
The TeamGroup L5 LITE 3D (480GB) SATA SSD Review: Entry-Level Price With Mainstream Performance
The TeamGroup L5 LITE 3D is an older SATA drive that has consistently been one of the cheapest drives on the retail market. Since it doesn't cut corners with...
42 by Billy Tallis on 9/20/2019
Samsung’s PCIe Gen 4 Enterprise SSDs Get Reliability & Performance Boost
Almost a year after outlining their first roadmap for PCIe 4.0 SSDs, Samsung's first two models are in mass production: the PM1733 and PM1735 high-end datacenter SSDs. Details about...
5 by Billy Tallis & Anton Shilov on 9/20/2019
GIGABYTE’s Aorus Gen4 AIC SSD 8 TB Launched: Up to 15 GB/s
After originally showcasing it at Computex a bit earlier this year, GIGABYTE has officially introduced its quad-SSD PCIe 4.0 adapter card, the AORUS Gen4 AIC. Designed house up to...
24 by Anton Shilov on 9/19/2019
Giveaway: QNAP TS-932X NAS & Seagate IronWolf Drive Bundle
We’re back this week with another giveaway, this time courtesy of Seagate. After giving away some of their new Ironwolf 110 SSDs a couple of months back, this month...
29 by Ryan Smith on 9/12/2019
Patriot Launches Viper VP4100 PCIe Gen 4 SSDs: Up to 5 GB/s
Patriot’s Viper Gaming division this week officially introduced its first PCIe 4.0 SSDs, several weeks ahead of schedule. The Viper VP4100 drives use Phison’s PS5016-E16 controller and generally resembles...
13 by Anton Shilov on 9/12/2019
GOODRAM Reveals IRDM Ultimate X: A Lineup of PCIe 4.0 x4 SSDs
GOODRAM has introduced its first SSDs featuring a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface designed for new-generation high-end PCs. Set to be available in 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB...
22 by Anton Shilov on 9/9/2019
YMTC Starts Volume Production of 64-Layer 3D NAND
Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) this week said that it had started volume production of its 64-layer 3D NAND memory that uses its proprietary Xtacking architecture. The bhips were...
3 by Anton Shilov on 9/5/2019
Samsung Announces Standards-Compliant Key-Value SSD Prototype
Samsung has announced a new prototype key-value SSD that is compatible with the first industry standard API for key-value storage devices. Earlier this year, the Object Drives working group...
48 by Billy Tallis on 9/5/2019
Toshiba Memory to Acquire Lite-On’s SSD Business: Gains IP, R&D, Manufacturing Ops
Toshiba Memory, which is set to rebrand as Kioxia Holdings this October, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SSD business of Lite-On Technology Corp. The decision will enable...
10 by Anton Shilov on 9/3/2019
Toshiba's Timeline for PCIe 4.0 SSDs
Following up on several announcements from Flash Memory Summit earlier this month, Toshiba has shared more information about their plans for transitioning their NVMe SSDs to PCI Express 4.0...
10 by Billy Tallis on 8/30/2019
Dressed to Impress: Team Group’s T-Force Delta Max RGB SATA SSD
RGB LEDs are used for thousands of enthusiast-class products these days, so in many cases manufacturers compete against each other in terms of style and try to make their...
16 by Anton Shilov on 8/30/2019
Micron’s Fab 10 Expansion Completed: 96-Layer 3D NAND Production Starts in 2019
Micron this week hosted a grand opening ceremony of its Fab 10 Expansion in Singapore. The new cleanroom is not expected to increase the company’s production capacity in terms...
21 by Anton Shilov on 8/16/2019
Marvell at FMS 2019: NVMe Over Fabrics Controllers, AI On SSD
Prior to Flash Memory Summit, Marvell unveiled their first generation of client SSD controllers supporting PCI Express 4.0. During the show itself, their focus was much more on the...
5 by Billy Tallis on 8/16/2019
FMS 2019: EDSFF Form Factors Update - Long, Short, & Everything In-Between
What began as Intel's Ruler concept for a new SSD form factor blossomed into the Enterprise and Datacenter Small Form Factor family of standards, with the version 1.0 specs...
1 by Billy Tallis on 8/16/2019
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