The Apex Storage X21 21 SSD board is truly a force to be reckoned with. We initially reviewed the system in May of this year, Apex Storage X21 Review: The Roaring Twenty-Ones. The device was a resounding success in our testing with the Samsung 980 Pros we put into the system. We were so impressed

Creative professionals, data scientists, and others with data-intensive applications are known to invest extravagantly in their workstations. And for good reason, these platforms are designed to execute tasks quickly, creating immediate business value. All of this work creates a new problem for storage. There’s either not enough fast flash in workstations, or hardware/software complexity makes

PCI-SIG and the SD Association have announced a partnership with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to advance the new SD Express memory card as a component in the PCIe ecosystem. SD Express technology is equipped with both an SD legacy protocol and a PCIe interface, claiming transfers rates of up to 985MB/s. It

Today OCZ Storage Solutions announced that they plan to showcase their new Trion-100 series at Computex this year. This new series of SSDs is based on Triple-Level Cell (TLC) NAND flash. This new series is aimed to provide an easy and affordable SSD for entry-level users looking to optimize mobile or desktop systems. OCZ will

Today Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd announced that they are mass-producing the industry’s first NVMe PCIe M.2 SSDs made specifically for PC and workstations, the SM951-NVMe. Samsung also announced that it has begun shipping the SM951-NVMe to OEMs for the PC market. This is the same technology HP announced last week in its Z Turbo Drive and

Today HP made a slew of announcements at the 2015 National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas. These announcements centered on workstations, both desktop and mobile, and professional displays to areas that appeal to the creative professional. For workstations, HP is releasing the second generation of the Z Turbo Drive as well as a new mobile

HGST, a Western Digital company, announced today that it shipping its new NVMe compliant PCIe SSD series, the Ultrastar SN100 series. HGST is billing the drive series as "the industry's highest-performing NVMe compliant SSDs." Hot on the heels of Intel's new PCIe SSD, the SN100 series is designed for mission-critical data center workloads, including scale-out databases

The OCZ Storage Solutions RevoDrive 350 is the latest edition of its RevoDrive family of enthusiast PCIe SSDs. The RevoDrive 350 is redesigned from the ground up with updated drivers to enable maximum performance and efficiency as well as taking advantage of new hardware design. The RevoDrive 350 is a PCIe integral storage solution, which is often used by creative

HP, in collaboration with Samsung, has announced the HP Z Turbo Drive, an ultra-fast, affordable and efficient PCIe drive for workstations. Designed to address industry dramatic change to accommodate larger files as well as the amount of big data, the HP Z Turbo Drive is a small, extended capacity PCIe SSD that addresses this file storage bottlenecks associated with extremely