Storage
SK hynix is one of the few vertically integrated manufacturers in the flash-based storage market. The company is well-established in the OEM market. A few years back, they also started exploring direct end-user products. Internal SSDs (starting with the Gold S31 and Gold P31) were the first out of the door. Late last year, the company introduced the Beetle X31 portable SSD, its first direct-attached storage product. In February, a complementary product was introduced - the Tube T31 Stick SSD. The Beetle X31 is a portable SSD with a Type-C upstream port and a separate cable. The Tube T31 is a take on the traditional thumb drive with a male Type-A interface. The size of the Beetle X31 makes the use of a bridge solution...
Samsung Releases Second 840 EVO Performance Fix
If nothing else, the odyssey of Samsung’s 840 EVO has not been lacking in excitement. After initially launching in 2013 to great fanfare as an excellent, strong-performing low-cost drive...
74 by Ryan Smith on 4/27/2015
Patriot Supersonic Rage 2 USB 3.0 256GB Flash Drive Capsule Review
The rise of USB 3.0 as a high speed interface for PCs and the increasing affordability of flash memory has led to some very interesting products. USB flash drives...
22 by Ganesh T S on 4/23/2015
New Samsung SSD 840 EVO Read Performance Fix Coming Later This Month
The Samsung SSD 840 EVO read performance bug has been on the table for over six months now. Initially Samsung acknowledged the issue fairly quickly and provided a fix...
81 by Kristian Vättö on 4/14/2015
Crucial BX100 (120GB, 250GB, 500GB & 1TB) SSD Review
Crucial has been doing very well in the client SSD market during the past year. Crucial's/Micron's ability to quickly roll out the 16nm NAND node definitely paid off because...
67 by Kristian Vättö on 4/10/2015
Samsung SM951 PCIe SSD Now Available
We reviewed Samsung's SM951 PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD a little over a month ago and it ended up being clearly the fastest client-level SSD, beating its predecessor XP941 by...
29 by Kristian Vättö on 4/7/2015
Intel SSD 750 PCIe SSD Review: NVMe for the Client
Ever since our SSD DC P3700 review, there's been massive interest from enthusiasts and professionals for a more client-oriented product based on the same platform. With eMLC, ten drive...
134 by Kristian Vättö on 4/2/2015
The Samsung SSD 850 EVO mSATA/M.2 Review
Four months ago Samsung introduced the world to TLC V-NAND in the form of SSD 850 EVO. It did well in our tests and showed that 3D NAND technology...
58 by Kristian Vättö on 3/31/2015
Estimating Intel-Micron 32-layer 3D NAND Die Size
Yesterday Intel and Micron shared some new details of their 3D NAND technology and during the presentation they also showed a production wafer. I missed the wafer during the...
36 by Kristian Vättö on 3/27/2015
Intel-Micron Share Additional Details of Their 3D NAND
Today must be the busiest day in the world of NAND. Earlier today, Toshiba announced that it has begun sampling of its 48-layer 128Gbit 3D NAND part and now...
35 by Kristian Vättö on 3/26/2015
Toshiba Announces 48-layer 128Gbit 3D NAND - Samples Shipping Today
The 3D NAND race is heating up. Samsung has been shipping its 3D NAND products for over six months now, but so far we have known very little about...
13 by Kristian Vättö on 3/26/2015
OCZ Releases Intrepid 3700 Enterprise SSD
A little over a year OCZ introduced its first in-house designed enterprise SSD series called the Intrepid 3000. What separated the Intrepid from OCZ's earlier enterprise SSDs was the...
10 by Kristian Vättö on 3/25/2015
The OCZ Vector 180 (240GB, 480GB & 960GB) SSD Review
OCZ has been teasing the Vector 180 for quite some time now. The first hint of the drive was unveiled over nine months ago at Computex 2014 where OCZ...
89 by Kristian Vättö on 3/24/2015
GIGABYTE Server Releases ARM Solutions using AppliedMicro and Annapurna Labs SoCs
As Johan points out in his deep dive of ARM in the server market, given a focused strategy new ARM solutions can offer the potential to disrupt some very...
16 by Ian Cutress on 3/24/2015
The ASRock X99 Extreme11 Review: Eighteen SATA Ports with Haswell-E
If there is one thing I like about ASRock, it is their ability to do something different in an increasingly difficult market to differentiate. One of these elements is...
58 by Ian Cutress on 3/11/2015
SanDisk Steps Into Storage Arrays: Launches InfiniFlash Series with Up to 512TB in 3U at <$1/GB
As a rather unexpected move, SanDisk has announced that it will be stepping into the storage array business with its in-house designed InfiniFlash all-flash array series. The driving force...
23 by Kristian Vättö on 3/4/2015
Western Digital My Cloud DL4100 Business NAS Review
Western Digital is a comparatively recent entrant to the fast-growing NAS market. Despite having had a Windows Storage Server-based product for business users for some time now, a custom...
27 by Ganesh T S on 3/4/2015
StarTech.com Updates DAS Lineup with Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0 Multi-Bay Enclosures
StarTech.com specializes in gadgets performing niche, yet handy functions. We have reviewed a few of their products such as the USB 3.0 to SATA IDE HDD docking station and...
4 by Ganesh T S on 2/28/2015
Synology DS2015xs Review: An ARM-based 10G NAS
Synology is one of the most popular COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) NAS vendors in the SMB / SOHO market segment. The NAS models introduced by them in 2014 were mostly...
51 by Ganesh T S on 2/27/2015
Western Digital My Cloud NAS Updates Target Prosumers and Small Businesses
Western Digital is no stranger to the NAS market. Their Sentinel series units (based on Windows Storage Server) have targeted business users for quite some time now. The My...
1 by Ganesh T S on 2/26/2015
Samsung SM951 (512GB) PCIe SSD Review
The PCIe SSD revolution is upon us. So far nearly every controller vendor has shown off its PCIe SSD controller design and the latest news I've heard is that...
128 by Kristian Vättö on 2/24/2015
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