IT departments are challenged with having to choose and configure data storage to meet present-day and future data center, system and end-user requirements for their organizations. They have to predict application use, workload sizes, performance needs and capacity expectations for years to come. Determining these requirements, and then implementing a storage strategy that meets these

Today Western Digital announced new NVMe SSDs in their WD Gold family. The new SSDs are aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them transition to NVMe storage and all the benefits that come with it such as much higher performance and ultra-low latency. This marks the first NVMe product in the WD

Today Kingston Digital, Inc. has launched their latest SSD, the DC1000M. Designed to be an affordable drive with NVMe performance, the DC1000M targets enterprises looking to replace aging SATA or SAS-based systems. The drive comes in a U.2 form factor and capacities up to 7.68TB. At the high end, performance is specced at 3,100MB/s sequential

Today KIOXIA America Inc. announced that they were the first to get enterprise and data center PCIe 4.0 (in U.3 form factor) SSDs to the market. The new SSDs include the CM6 and CD6 Series PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs. According to the company, the new drives can hit speeds as high as 6.9GB/s.

The Kingston DC1000B is a read-focused M.2 NVMe SSD aimed at the market of on-board server boot drives. While the DC1000B is aimed at being a cost effective offering, it doesn’t skimp on features such as power-fail protection that buyers expect from enterprise-grade SSDs. Aside from being used as a boot SSD, the DC1000B is beefy enough

Kingston Digital has announced the availability of the DC1000B M.2 NVMe 3D TLC NAND SSD, a drive designed for servers with one or two boot-dedicated M.2 NVMe slots as well as for caching and logging use cases. The new DC1000B includes onboard power-loss protection while featuring 0.5D DWPD endurance to help promote an extended service

Today at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, SK hynix Inc. announced two new PCIe NVMe SSD families. The new drives are the Platinum P31 and Gold P31 PCIe NVMe consumer Solid State Drives (SSDs). The new SSD families along with several of SK hynix products will be showcased at the company’s booth #13529 at the

Looking for a solid-state drive for your NAS system? The WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD is purpose-built for NAS with Western Digital 3D NAND. Offering endurance needed for 24/7 environments, reduced latency improving responsiveness for demanding applications, 2.5” and M.2 form factors, and capacities from 500GB up to 4TB. This drive is ideal for

The WD Blue SN550 is the company’s newest mainstream NVMe SSD and successor to the SN500, which we reviewed earlier this year. The new WD drive is a consumer, entry-level drive all packed inside the small M.2 2280 form factor. This includes an in-house controller, firmware, and their latest 3D NAND. As such, this makes it ideal