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.
SanDisk Updates Its USB Drives & Adds A New Portable SSD
At CES 2016 SanDisk Corporation announced that it has upgraded two of its more popular USB drives with more capacity and performance (SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick and SanDisk Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0). The Connect Wireless Stick now has a capacity of 200GB and the Ultra Dual has a capacity of 128GB. SanDisk is also releasing
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
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
Seagate Releases World’s Thinnest 2TB Portable Hard Drive
Today Seagate Technology announced that it has launched the thinnest 2TB portable hard drive on the market, the Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Slim. Seagate has built the new drive off of its Backup Plus Slim Drive. The new Ultra Slim will deliver the same high capacity of 2TB at an even thinner design. The Ultra Slim
LaCie Announces New Porsche Design & New Chromé Desktop Storage
Today at CES, Seagate Technology’s premium brand, LaCie, announced two new products, the Chromé Desktop Storage and a new line of Porsche designed drives. The new Porsche designed drives feature USB-C connectivity and up to 8TB of capacity. The Chromé was designed by Neil Poulton, also has USB-C connectivity, and claims to be the fastest
QNAP Makes Multiple Announcements At CES 2016
CES is always full of announcements from various vendors. Each year vendors announce new products, new enhancements, new partners, or new services. QNAP is covering the whole gamut with announcements for consumer, SMB, and enterprise for its networked storage. Among the announcements is a portable NAS, the TBS-453A.
Samsung Announces New T3 2TB Portable SSD
Today at CES Samsung Electronics America Inc. announced the latest version of their portable external SSD, the T3. The T3 is a palm-sized SSD that uses Samsung's V-NAND technology to give it 2TB of capacity. The T3 is ideal for professionals that need to store and transfer large files to multiple devices on the go,
QNAP Updates CloudLink App
QNAP has announced the latest release of their CloudLink app, which is designed to improve the remote access functions of the myQNAPcloud service for easier access to QNAP devices via the Internet; all without any complex domain redirection processes. With the CloudLink app, users will have timely access to their files on a QNAP NAS
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




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