The SSD Review made their stop at the Zotac suite to see their latest and greatest entry into the consumer storage market. On display was their 2.5″ form factor SSD line up, as well as their new PCIe SSD. First up was the display of their 2.5″ form SSD’s, ranging in capacities from 120GB, 240GB and 480GB. These were announced …

Our first one-on-one meeting of CES 2016 was with Robert Fan, head of marketing for Silicon Motion. We met with Robert last year also, so it is good to see familiar faces and establish long-term relationships. Robert was very gracious in sharing Silicon Motion’s SSD controller “roadmap” for the near future. First on display is the new SM2246EN that is …

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation, a world-leading provider of NAND flash controllers for solid-state drives (SSDs), is announcing that its widely-adopted SM2246EN controller has been updated to support commercial 3D NAND.  This represents the world’s first turnkey merchant SSD controller that supports 3D NAND from multiple vendors.  The enhanced SM246EN will further drive the adoption of the most price-competitive high-performance SSDs …

SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading producer of flash storage devices, is announcing a huge capacity boost for their SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick and SanDisk Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0. The SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick is now available in a capacity of 200GB, and the SanDisk Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0 is now offered in a 128GB capacity.  This gives consumers even …

Today SanDisk unveiled a few products for 2016, among them are a new client SSD and a rugged waterproof external drive. Their client product, the X400, is the first single-sided 1TB SATA M.2 form factor SSD that measures in at a mere 1.5mm height. This makes it the world’s thinnest 1TB SSD to date! It has been developed for fast …

Of course Storage visions is where we learn what the future will hold in terms of storage. Right now, who better to look at than Micron about this subject? Just yesterday Micron, one of the biggest players in both the DRAM and NAND, released a press statement entailing that their president Mark Adams has resigned due to personal health reasons. …

In a quick meeting with Samsung today we learned some interesting things coming up in 2016. Other than the release of the Samsung Portable SSD T3 we’ve mentioned here, Samsung aims to expand the release of the 750 EVO to the United States. The Samsung 750 EVO is a value oriented product which has been released in Japan near the …

We are back in Las Vegas this week for CES 2016, which for us starts the day before with Storage Visions 2016.  CES, as the name implies, is the Consumer Electronics Show, while Storage Visions focuses on the Enterprise (non-consumer) side of  the storage industry.  Storage Visions’ main focus is on various forms of collaboration on storage initiatives and emerging technologies, …

On display at the Storage Networking  Industry Association (SNIA) was a demonstration of Plexistor’s software defined memory with Smart Modular technologies DDR4 NVDIMM, which compares the throughput and latency of an Intel 750 NVMe PCIe SSD to their DDR4 NVDIMM. SNIA also demonstrated their latest storage certification that allows you to further your knowledge of storage solutions to the SNIA standard. …

Our first presentation of the day at Storage Visions 2016 brings us to Rob Peglar, VP of Advanced Storage at Micron Technologies, who discusses what he believes to be the new approaches in storage. Three of the trends that were discussed includes software defined storage now making way for software defined networking, the ‘start to the end’ of SAN and …