Qumulo File System is Qumulo’s unique software-defined distributed file system that spans the data center, private and public cloud. Its software is built for the hybrid cloud, allowing it to run on pre-configured and pre-qualified industry standard hardware platforms, as well as natively across multiple public clouds. In our lab, we had the opportunity to

Today Samsung Electronics America released its second- generation quad-level cell (QLC) flash drive, the Samsung 870 QVO SATA SSD. While the original QLC release from Samsung went up to 4TB, the new 870 QVO can go up to 8TB. The new SSD is aimed at professional PC users delivering reliability and capacity they need for

NVMe SSDs have taken over as the top performers across the board. They started off by making huge leaps and bounds over SAS and SATA drives, but in recent years have slowly been eking out a little more performance with each iteration. There is an upper limit with PCIe 3.0 and the current drives are

The NVMe interface, specifically PCIe 3.0 NVMe 1.3, has been the preferable SSD interface for virtually any use case for a while now. This interface has been used time and again as vendors continue to improve in performance with each new generation. PCIe has now entered into 4.0, bringing with it a massive gains in

Hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear from an IT vendor about the impact their solutions have on orgs that are involved in artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning or edge intelligence. The problem however is material insights on how these solutions impact the performance of each of these tasks is lacking. Recently

The ADATA SWORDFISH is the company’s latest consumer-grade SSD. Featuring the PCIe Gen3x4 interface via the usual M.2 2280 form factor, the Swordfish is equipped with 3D NAND Flash and comes in capacities ranging from 250GB to 2TB. Like most ADATA consumer drives, the company focuses more on price over performance (specifically in writes), which

The ADATA FALCON is an M.2 SSD that is built around high performance, or “pro-formance” as they clumsily said. The drive comes in a fairly wide capacity range, 256GB up to 2TB. The M.2, 2280, form factor makes it a fit for desktops or notebooks. The main use cases for the ADATA FALCON are photo

Recently we had the honor to have Kris Moore, from iXsystems, at the StorageReview premises, to discuss and live demo the new features of TrueNAS CORE version 12.0. This “new” product was revealed two months ago with the unification decision of FreeNAS and TrueNAS. TrueNAS CORE is one of the three versions of TrueNAS Open

The Synology DiskStation DS720+ is the latest in Synology’s line of small desktop NAS. The DS720+ looks like the typical two-bay guy from Synology but there are a few new twists, like two more NVMe M.2 bays on the bottom, bringing the total to four. This particular NAS is designed to streamline user data storage