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ScaleFlux CSD 2000 Review

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 PM1735
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Samsung PM1735 SSD Review

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

addnas n50 ssd box
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addlink addNAS N50 SSD Review

addlink has come out with an M.2 SSD that is aimed at NAS users, the addlink addNAS N50. While it is marketed around replacing HDDs for a performance boost, its form factor suggests it may be better leverages as a cache in NAS devices (assuming the vendor hasn’t decided to only use their own SSDs).

intel p5800x design
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Intel Optane SSD P5800X Review

The Intel Optane SSD P5800X expands on Intel’s fastest tier of SSD storage. We’ve seen Optane SSDs roll through the lab a good deal with the P4800X, which was launched a touch over four years ago. Over time Intel bumped the capacity of the drive (which started at 375GB), topping out at 1.5TB. The small

Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series
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Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series Review (MemVerge)

Intel launched the Optane DC Persistent Memory Module in the spring of 2019 as a way to bridge the gap between volatile DRAM and high-performance SSDs. A little over a year later, Intel has built on the platform with Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series or Optane PMem 200 for short. The new modules are

Seagate Nytro 3332 group
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Seagate Nytro 3332 SAS SSD Review

Last year, Seagate announced an expansion to its enterprise SAS SSDs with the inclusion of the 3032 SAS SSD line. The line uses the SAS interface for 12Gb/s, dual-port 24×7 performance. The drives are 2.5” x 15mm and run in capacities from 400GB to 15.36TB. The series is further broken down into three endurance levels

WD Ultrastar SN640 lineup
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Western Digital NVMe SSDs Take Over the Enterprise

When NVMe™ drives first came out, we knew the performance would be superior, but questioned when they would be cost-comparable to SATA SSDs. Due to their initial cost, NVMe drives were used for enterprise applications that needed to take advantage of their high-performance characteristics. It didn’t take very long for NVMe drives to become cheaper

Samsung PM9A3 E1.S
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Samsung PM9A3 E1.S Goes Into Mass Production

Today Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced that it has begun mass production of the Samsung PM9A3 E1.S. The company claims that this is its most advanced line of data center SSDs. It is also said to be the industry’s first data center SSD that is compliant with the latest OCP standards.

next-gen Intel Optane
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Next-Gen Intel Optane Announced

At the Intel Memory and Storage 2020 event, the company announced the next-gen Intel Optane devices. This includes new SSDs for data centers, Intel Optane SSD P5800X, and for client use with the Intel Optane Memory H20. The company rolled out the 3rd generation of its Intel Optane persistent memory for cloud and enterprise customers.

Netlist NS1552 SSD front
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Netlist NS1552 NVMe M.2 SSD Review

Earlier this year, Netlist added an M.2 NVMe to its portfolio of SSD in the form of the Netlist NS1552. The new SSD is all about high performance at a low power cost. This particular enterprise drive is aimed at use cases such as boot and log information, searching, indexing, CDN, Cloud and hyperscale computing,