Today Memblaze Technology Co., Ltd. announced a new, low-power NVMe SSD series, the Memblaze PBlaze5 520 Series. This new enterprise-class SSD leverages 96-layer 3D eTLC NAND, comes in capacities ranging from 1.6TB to 3.84TB, and comes in both 2.5” U.2 and HHHL form factors. The new series is aimed at “green” data centers and comes

Synology has entered the SSD world with the launch of SSD lines specifically designed to handle demanding environments like virtualization workloads, high traffic volume database storage, and AI and HPC projects within the NAS environment. One of these drives is the Synology SAT5200, a SATA SSD ideal for mixed and intensive 24/7 workloads while boasting

In June 2020, Synology made a bold choice and decided to sell flash storage along with its NAS solutions and routers. For some time SSDs could be used in the NAS for caching or just for all the storage giving users faster performance. Several companies like WD and Seagate have their own flash storage aimed

Today Seagate Technologies announced it was further expanding its Seagate Nytro SSD portfolio. The line now includes the Nytro 3032 SAS SSD and Nytro 1360 SATA SSD products. The new drives are aimed at a wide range of enterprise applications.

In March of this year, Kingston Digital Inc. expanded its line of affordable enterprise SSDs with the introduction of the Kingston DC1000M. The new SSD is meant to be an affordable drive with NVMe level performance that replaces old SATA and SAS SSDs as companies move forward. The DC1000M comes in capacities between 960GB and

NVMe SSDs have taken over as the top performers across the board. They started off by making huge leaps and bounds over SAS and SATA drives, but in recent years have slowly been eking out a little more performance with each iteration. There is an upper limit with PCIe 3.0 and the current drives are

The NVMe interface, specifically PCIe 3.0 NVMe 1.3, has been the preferable SSD interface for virtually any use case for a while now. This interface has been used time and again as vendors continue to improve in performance with each new generation. PCIe has now entered into 4.0, bringing with it a massive gains in

Today Western Digital announced a new storage platform, the Western Digital OpenFlex Data24. Along with the new platform, they also announced new NVMe Data Center SSDs in the Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN840. While the SN840 drives come with the OpenFlex Data24, and is designed to work well with it, the drive is also ideal

Intel has announced the availability of the D7-P5500 and P5600, two new 3D NAND SSDs designed for systems that store data in all-flash arrays. These two new 3D NAND SSDs are built with Intel’s latest TLC 3D NAND technology and are highlighted by the company’s brand new, low-latency PCIe controller, making these drives ideal for