It hasn’t been a month since we posted our report on the Crucial MX500 consumer SATA SSD and we were discussing it, and the newest M.2 version of the MX500, at CES 2018 this week. Looking back for a bit, we can safely say that Crucial/Micron is very comfortable with their newest 64-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory, and all …
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So the Intel Optane SSD 900P NVMe SSD has been out for about a week now and it is expensive, hard to find and being termed as a disruptive technology by the SSD Gods. By SSD Gods of course, I refer to 4-5 flash reviewers that have been in the industry since SSDs were introduced and I can draw a direct …
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Toshiba is announcing development of their newest flagship enterprise SSDs, both featuring Toshiba’s latest generation of 64-layer 3D BiCS FLASH™ memory. The PM5 is a 12Gbit/s SAS series of drives, while the CM5 is their new enterprise NVMe drive. Both are built with Toshiba’s latest 64-layer 3D 3-bit-per-cell enterprise-class TLC (triple-level-cell) BiCS FLASH™, allowing today’s demanding storage applications to expand …
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If you have read our latest review of the Kingston DCP1000 SSD, you will see that multi-M.2 SSD designs can result in some of the highest speeds we have seen in SSD performance. In the case of the Kingston DCP1000, we pulled off performance of 7GB/s throughput and 1.2 million IOPS from a single AIC (add-in card) HHHL design. This …
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Plextor announced their production of their newest M9PE PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe this week at Computex 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan. The M9Pe is based on the Marvell 88SS1093 controller, code named Eldora, and Toshiba’ newest 512gb BiCS 3D TLC 64 layer memory. Available in either M.2 or PCIe add-in card, the M9Pe will be equipped with a heatsink as it …
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Toshiba is debuting a demonstration of their latest 64-layer BiCS FLASH™ 3D technology at Dell EMC World 2017 this week in Las Vegas. The demo will show the 64-layer BiCS FLASH being utilized on an XG Series consumer NMVe PCIe SSD. Toshiba’s newest version of their BiCS FLASH offers a proven combination of cost, performance and endurance for all types …
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Quick post to let all know what we have in store in the next few weeks. We just got the Kingston DCP1000 Data Center NVMe SSD in today and this SSD is rather special. With advertised capacities up to 3.2TB and performance up to 6.8GB/s and 1.2mil IOPS, this SSD just could be the fastest single SSD solution worldwide right …
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Every so often, I get my hands on a new tech device that really makes me smile. Undoubtedly, it becomes a key gadget that I keep with me in my travels, and one that I tend to show off at tech events I attend. The Glyph 2TB AtomRAID portable SSD just happened to show up on our doorstep a few days before …
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Of particular interest at CES 2017 this week was our meeting with Longsys who was showing off a new design of theirs called the SATA Disk in Package (SDP). The SDP is a very small SSD that contains the SATA connector, a Marvell 88NV1120 DRAM-less controller, as well as 3D TLC memory. Having the SDP in hand, we could see …
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