Kioxia launched their storage-class memory (SCM), dubbed XL-FLASH, over two years ago. It took a good deal of time to deliver a packaged solution in the form of an SSD though, and Kioxia wasn’t the first to get there. It was DapuStor leading the way with XL-FLASH shipping the H3900 toward the end of 2020.

Brian recently hosted a podcast with Jason Adrian, the co-chair of the OCP storage project and the hardware lead at Azure, where they discussed the future of storage solutions. The main topic of discussion was the versatile E1.S form factor. Based on our conversation, if you aren’t excited about the promise of this technology, you

This podcast offers an amazing deep dive into Ruler SSDs and what the new form factor means to the enterprise data center. The big cloud providers have been on ruler SSDs for a few years. But mainstream adoption of Ruler has been hampered largely because there are too many shapes and sizes. That’s changing for

The Intel SSD D7-P5510 is dubbed the world’s first 144-Layer TLC drive (first to market) and is the latest addition to the company’s family of data center drives, which focus on broad cloud workloads at reduced costs. Available in a U.2 form factor in two models (3.84TB and 7.68TB), the P5510 utilizes TLC NAND, which

The Memblaze PBlaze6 6920 is the company’s new NVMe SSD series that features a PCIe Gen4 interface and the potential performance gains that could bring. The 6920 is a U.2 drive that leverages 96-Layer NAND. There are two drives in this series, the PBlaze6 D6920 and the PBlaze6 D6926, the former being the lower endurance

Nearly two years ago at the Flash Memory Summit, Liqid announced its Honey Badger SSD, or properly known as the Liqid Element LQD4500 edge card. At the time, the company claimed that this was the world’s fastest NVMe storage. How fast? The claims were 24GB/s and over 4 million IOPS at the time, again, a

The Kingston DC1500M is the company’s latest U.2 data center NVMe PCIe SSD specifically designed for cloud providers, hyperscale data centers, and enterprise-level IT on-premise servers. The DC1500M is an affordable enterprise SSD, making it an ideal solution for organizations looking to move from SATA/SAS SSDs to NVMe in order to leverage the interface’s much

ScaleFlux is a company that is solely focused on computational storage, more specifically computational storage at scale. The company is primarily doing this with its ScaleFlux Computational Storage Drives (CSD). As you may have guessed by their name, the CSD is an NVMe SSD integrated with compute engines that can improve drive and system performance.

Samsung launched almost twenty iterations of their PCIe Gen4 enterprise SSD family in the fall of 2019. The PM1733 and PM1735 were designed to fully take advantage of the throughput Gen4 offers. Now that server vendors are including Gen4 ports across their AMD and Intel-based server offerings, these SSDs are finally coming to market in