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Solidigm D5-P5430 30.72TB E3.S SSD standing on its long edge on the lab bench in front of a rack with the StorageReview logo
Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Solidigm D5-P5430 30.72TB E3.S Review: Gen4 QLC for Mixed Workloads

The Solidigm D5-P5430 is the mainstream tier of Solidigm’s QLC data center line. It’s the drive that sits below the capacity-maximizing D5-P5336 and carries a smaller indirection unit for the mixed and small-block write workloads a 16KB-IU drive handles poorly. We reviewed the 15.36TB P5430 at launch in 2023, when the story was the jump

RTX PRO 4500 edge review: top-down view inside the HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 with the RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition installed on the full-height riser and its 16-pin power cable connected
AI  ◇  Enterprise

NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Edge Review: 2.7x the L4 Inside an HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition is the card NVIDIA built primarily to replace the L4 in servers that live outside the data center: single-slot, PCIe Gen5, passively cooled, 165W, with 32GB of GDDR7 and the full Blackwell feature set, including FP4 Tensor Cores and Multi-Instance GPU. HPE sent us a ProLiant DL145

FC-SP-3 quantum-ready security for Fibre Channel SANs: a runway from 2026 to a fully encrypted 2030 with a padlock lifting off, ahead of the CNSA 2.0, NIS2, and DORA mandates
Enterprise  ◇  Storage Adapters

FCIA’s FC-SP-3: A Standard Ready for the Quantum-Computing World

In enterprise IT, most security upgrades typically occur in response to breaches or other significant incidents. The recently developed INCITS FC-SP-3 standard, however, represents a proactive response to regulatory and cryptographic deadlines that are already influencing infrastructure planning. The NSA’s CNSA 2.0 guidance presents National Security Systems with a complex migration path, while the European

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Micron 6600 ION 245TB: Swap the Hard Drives, Power an NVL72 for Free

For two decades, the SSD-versus-HDD conversation ended the same way: flash wins on performance, disk wins on price per terabyte, and the size of that price gap settled the argument in favor of bulk storage. As storage technology has matured and AI has taken over, that framing is clearly out of date. The largest data

KIOXIA CM9-R 15.36TB E3.S SSD standing upright on the StorageReview lab bench with the drive rack behind it
Enterprise  ◇  SSD

KIOXIA CM9-R 15.36TB Review: BiCS8 Flash Hits Full Speed at Low Queue Depths

The KIOXIA CM9-R is the first enterprise SSD family built on eighth-generation BiCS FLASH, and the 15.36TB E3.S model in our lab is the volume sweet spot of the range: 3,400K random read IOPS and 14,800 MB/s of sequential read from a drive with a 25W typical active rating. Gen5 enterprise drives routinely push into