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KIOXIA EM6 Ethernet SSD
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KIOXIA EM6 Ethernet SSDs Hit Production

NVMe has been a top conversation this week, thanks in large part to OCP Global Summit in San Jose. During the event, KIOXIA America announced full production availability of NVMe-oF SSDs for Ethernet Bunch of Flash (EBOF) systems. The KIOXIA EM6 Series Enterprise system, using the Marvell 88SN2400 NVMe-oF SSD converter controller, converts an NVMe

KIOXIA CD7
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KIOXIA CD7 and XD6 SSDs Announced

KIOXIA has announced two new major data center drives; the CD7 E3.S and 9.5mm XD6 E1.S Enterprise and Datacenter SSDs. The CD7 is the industry’s first lineup of EDSFF E3.S SSDs designed with a PCIe Gen5 interface, while the XD6 supports both E1.S 15mm and 25mm form factors so users can choose their ideal balance

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Intel P5510 vs Samsung PM9A3 Enterprise SSD Showdown

Intel launched the P5510 NVMe SSD in December of last year, the first enterprise SSD to market with 144-layer TLC NAND. We’ve seen the drives in our lab extensively since then, they’re exceedingly popular due to their aggressive price/performance ratio. At almost the same exact time, Samsung launched their PM9A3 SSD. Based on a less-transparent

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Podcast #88: PCIe Gen5 is Coming – What You Need to Know

PCIe Gen5 is coming along at a rapid pace, we should see it in enterprise systems next year. From a storage perspective, this means a theoretical doubling of performance again. The data rate specification for PCIe Gen5 at 32Gb/s is twice the lane speed of PCIe Gen4 at 16Gb/s. How that manifests still remains to

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Micron 7400 PCIe Gen4 SSDs Announced

Micron has announced the availability of the Micron 7400 NVMe SSD, highlighted by its PCIe Gen4 interface and comprehensive security features. Available in a range of form factors, the Micron 7400 is ideal for demanding data center workloads and helping to drive the transition to next-generation server architectures.

WD Red SN700 in Synology
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WD Red SN700 NVMe NAS SSDs Now Available

Western Digital has announced the new WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD, a high-endurance, caching drive that helps to accelerate NAS performance for its SMB customers. WD has purpose-built the SN700 to support 24/7 NAS environments and always-on applications, focusing on reliability and endurance with a 1,750,000 hour MTBF rating.

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Kioxia FL6 SCM SSD Released

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.

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Ruler is Finally Going Mainstream – Why E1.S SSDs Are Taking Over

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

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Podcast #84: Ruler SSDs are Finally Coming to the Enterprise

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

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Intel P5510 NVMe Enterprise SSD Review

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