Diablo Technologies is announcing its Memory Channel Storage (MCS), which uses the standard RDIMM memory interface to support the lowest latency for SSD storage attached via the DDR-3 CPU channel. This technology represents a drastic improvement in latency reduction, which ranges from 85% compared with PCIe based SSD storage to as great as a 96%

The Samsung 840 Evo is the company’s latest mainstream SSD that differentiates itself in the market with features and components that benefit from Samsung’s vertical integration approach including its own 19nm 128Gb TLC NAND, proprietary firmware and newest-gen multi-core MEX controller. Capacities on the 840 Evo range from 120GB all the way up to a full 1TB

Micron is announcing the sampling of its 16nm, 128Gb MLC NAND flash memory devices, which are now the smallest in the industry. The 16nm, 128Gb solution along with Micron’s other 128Gb offerings are designed for applications in devices such as SSDs, USB thumb drives and flash memory cards, tablets, ultrathin devices and data center cloud

SanDisk has announced an agreement to acquire SMART Storage Systems, which is known for its innovative SAS and SATA interface SSDs and Guardian Technology, for a sum of $307 million in cash and equity-based incentives. The acquisition has been approved by both boards of directors, and pending regulatory review, the deal is expected to be

The Fusion-io ioDrive2 MLC application accelerator comes in capacities up to 1.2TB in a half-height half-length (HHHL) form factor (or 3TB in FHHL) and is highlighted by exceedingly low read and write access latencies. While we've previously reviewed the ioDrive2 flagship Duo SLC, which is great for the most demanding applications, the ioDrive2 single drive

WD and sTec are announcing a merger whereby HGST, a subsidiary of WD, will acquire sTec for $340 million in cash – which is $6.85/share. sTec has long been an innovator in enterprise SSDs (such as the s840 that we’ve reviewed), and the acquisition cost represents roughly $207 million in enterprise value. Leading up to

LSI is announcing updates to its Nytro line including an expansion of available adapters with a new high capacity 3.2TB Nytro WarpDrive, as well as other capacities, connectivity and software capabilities across the Nytro product family. LSI is expanding their wide-ranging PCIe flash adapter portfolio in order to deliver solutions for a range of applications

The HGST Ultrastar SSD800MM enterprise SSD is the second 12Gb/s SAS interface SSD available on the market and features co-developed Intel/HGST controllers and 25nm MLC NAND. The SSD800MM, which as the name indicates offers up to 800GB of capacity, fits into a new family of drives presented by HGST. The other SSDs in the series

The Intel SSD DC S3500 is designed for data center applications such as in cloud computing, web hosting and other read-intensive environments, and the drive features an in-house controller, 20nm MLC NAND, and form factors at both 2.5" and 1.8". The DC S3500 is the latest SSD in Intel’s new line while its sibling, the DC S3700