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Toshiba Releases New Read-Intensive SAS SSD

Today Toshiba America Electronics Components Inc. released their latest very read-intensive enterprise SAS SSD, the PX04SL series. The PX04SL expands on Toshiba’s third generation SAS SSDs. The new SSD series is aimed at high read-intensive application workloads such as data warehousing, web servers, media streaming, and video on demand.

Consumer  ◇  SSD

OCZ Showcases Its Next-Gen SSDs At CES 2016

At CES 2016 OCZ Storage Solutions is showcasing its latest SSDs. These new drives include its new client drives, the NVM Express RevoDrive 400 series and the Trion 150 series, as well as its enterprise SSD drives, the Z-Drive 6000 U.2 series.

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Patriot Announced Hellfire M.2 and PCIe AIC SSDs

Patriot has announced the latest additions to their solid-state drive porfolio, the Patriot Hellfire M.2 PCIe SSD and the Hellfire PCIe AIC. With a Gen 3 x 4 interface and NVMe 1.2 support, the Hellfire is the company’s first M.2 PCIe SSD and is quoted to reach speeds up to 2,500MB/s read and 600MB/s write.

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Silicon Motion Announces Turnkey Merchant SATA SSD Controller Supporting 3D NAND

Today at CES in Las Vegas, Silicon Motion Technology Corporation released the world’s first turnkey merchant SATA SSD controller solution supporting 3D NAND from multiple vendors, the SM2246EN with 3D NAND support. Silicon Motion states that its new controller will help accelerate adoption of high-performance SSDs. The updated SM2246EN with 3D NAND support will be

Consumer  ◇  SSD

SanDisk Launches The World’s Thinnest 1TB M.2 SSD

Today At CES SanDisk Corporation launched what they are calling the world’s thinnest 1TB M.2 form factor SSD, the X400. The X400 is only 1.5mm thick. In order to achieve this level of ultra-slim thinness, The X400 is only single sided—the first single sided 1TB SATA M.2. With the X400 customers should see faster boot

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Micron First Quarter Results Fall Short Of Estimates

Micron released their first quarter results for 2016 and missed revenue expectations. Analysts were looking for $3.46 billion in revenue and Micron reported $3.35 billion (Micron’s revenue was $4.57 billion this quarter last year). Not only that, Micron’s revenue prediction for this quarter, which is between $2.9 billion and $3.2 billion, is under what analysts are

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Samsung Magician and Data Migration Overview

Samsung has produced several high performing SSDs. Their 2.5”, mSATA, and M.2 all currently sit at the top of our leaderboard. Along with its high-performing and innovative SSDs, Samsung also updates its incredibly useful software suite including Samsung Data Migration (SDM) currently in version 3.0 and is Samsung Magician software (currently in version 4.9).

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

HGST Ultrastar SN100 Series AIC NVMe SSD Review

The Ultrastar SN100 Series of enterprise SSDs is HGST’s first foray into NVMe drives, with their prior work being centered on the SAS interface. The family of drives is broken into two categories, the SN100 referring to the 2.5″ form factor and the SN150 meaning half-height half-length add-in-card (AIC) form factor. In either shape the drives are

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Intel SSD DC P3608 AIC NVMe SSD Review

The Intel DC P3608 is a high-performance enterprise NVMe SSD that leverages the add-in-card (AIC) form factor aimed at the database, HPC and real-time analytics. The half-height, half-length (HHHL) cards offer capacities up to 4TB and performance at the top end of 5GB/s sequential read and 3GB/s sequential write, along with 850,000 random 4K read

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Memblaze PBlaze4 AIC NVMe SSD Review

Memblaze has a new generation of NVMe SSDs designed for the enterprise. The PBlaze4 is intended for data centers running cloud computing, database, and other demanding applications. It is available in both half-height, half-length (HHHL) and full-height, half-length (FHHL) form factors, and capacities ranging from 800GB to 6.4TB.