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The Toshiba XG3 SSD is a M.2 NVMe drive which just may be the most powerful SSD on the market….well not really on the market. It isn’t available through consumer sales and can only be found pre-installed in ultrabooks, unless of course you are lucky enough to dig one up on eBay.  The downfall of trying to get ones hands …

As the SSD industry continues to grow, manufacturers try to maintain their consumer presence with more value-oriented consumer products.  Such is the case with Intel’s latest step into the TLC segment by introducing their newest 540s SATA 3 SSD a few weeks back. The Intel 540s Series is their first SSD to feature 16nm TLC NAND and first 5 series …

We’ve been able to test our fair share of SSDs over the years and, to this date, there remains a constant.  Prices drop.  Where we once saw a 32GB SSD peak at $5000 in 2007, today’s world is vastly different and 1TB SSDs are now available at just over the $300 mark.   Value is key in technology and has always …

The ability to upgrade storage in today’s smartphones seems to have become key once again. It is the dividing point between Samsung and Apple.  A Samsung S7 smart phone allows the user to add up to 200GB of storage space whereas the Apple iPhone 6S tops out at 128GB, that storage increasing the iPhone price by several hundred dollars. This …

Lite-On is announcing its MU-II series of solid-state drives (SSDs).  Built in a standard 2.5” x 7mm form factor, the MU-II series of SSDs operate via the SATA 6 Gb/s interface.  These drives feature Toshiba 15nm TLC NAND, enabling an extremely competitive price point. The MU-II series will be offered in capacities of 120GB, 240GB, 480GB and 960GB.  Sequential read …

SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading producer of flash storage devices, is announcing the SanDisk Z410 SSD, a competitively priced solid-state drive (SSD) that allows OEMs to incorporate it into a broad range of laptops and desktop PCs.  The Z410 features 15nm three-bits-per-cell (TLC) NAND, enabling the performance, capacities and form factor that are easily incorporated into most mainstream computing platforms. The …

Sonnet Technologies is announcing its new Fusion™ Thunderbolt™ 3 PCIe® Flash Drive – Windows® Edition, which is a rugged, pocket-size solid-state drive (SSD) featuring the Thunderbolt 3 interface.  Containing 512GB of flash storage onboard, the Fusion Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Flash Drive utilizes Thunderbolt 3’s 40Gb/s bandwidth to attain data transfer speeds of up to 2100 MB/s. Sonnet has designed the …

A great indication of how far we have come in flash technology lies in flash drives themselves, where we see today’s flash drives capable of transfer speeds of yesterday’s solid state drives.   While the difference between the two is still vast, the advance of USB versions has seen us move from 35MB/s with USB 2.0 to over 20x that with …

IDrive Online Backup is announcing the launch of their IDrive One, a wireless storage device that provides advanced wireless connectivity, as well as streaming capabilities.  The IDrive One is offered in both an HDD version with capacities of either 1TB or 2TB, and an SSD  version with capacities of either 128GB or 256GB.  Both versions comes with 1TB of IDrive …

Considering my rather vocal opposition to Apple’s products over the years, it’s somewhat amusing that I make daily use of a 27″ iMac, MBA and new iPhone.  It is not so much the product as it is internal decisions on build that bothers me, my present MBA being the longest I have ever kept a laptop, eliminating any question whatsoever …

Everspin Technologies is announcing that they have begun shipping 256Mb ST-MRAM samples to select global customers, enabling new storage solutions that use true MRAM-based Storage Class Memory (SCM).  Their new 256Mb ST-MRAM represents a new record for the highest density commercial MRAM currently available in today’s market.  Everspin, who is breaking their own previous record, is a consistent industry leader …

On Tuesday Micron Technology, Inc. introduced to us new NVMe SSDs for the enterprise market, however, that was just one of many announcements. They also announced the creation of Micron Accelerated Solutions, a set of purpose-built, scale-out solutions for open source and software-defined data centers. The first suite of Micron Accelerated Solutions are designed and developed in close collaboration with …

Micron announces a new PCIe solid state drives that leverage the high-performance NVMe protocol. The new Micron 9100 and 7100 PCIe SSDs provide data center customers with purpose-built storage products for implementing an agile, scale-out IT infrastructure. These new drives extend Micron’s rich portfolio of SATA and SAS SSDs that enable customers to extend and improve their legacy data center infrastructure …

Zstor, a Germany-based leading producer of high-performance storage offerings for compute-intensive applications, is announcing its newest flagship storage solution family based on the latest NVMe specification.  Zstor’s new NV-Series is developed in conjunction with Mangstor Inc., and uses Ethernet or Infiniband Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) networks to take advantage of the low latency benefits of the NVMe standard.  This …

Plextor, a world-leading producer of high-performance digital storage devices, is announcing the M7V series of solid-state drives (SSDs), their longest lifespan SSDs to date. The M7V is Plextor’s first SSD utilizing TLC NAND, and when coupled with firmware from Plextor’s in-house firmware team, it is able to achieve up to 2,000 program/erase (P/E) cycles. This is an endurance level that …