Today at the 2015 Samsung Global SSD Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Samsung announced their newest consumer NVMe SSD, the 950 Pro. Utilizing Samsung’s 3D V-NAND memory and supporting PCIe 3.o x4, the 950 Pro is only available in M.2 form factor and promises to be the smallest, lightest and most powerful SSD platform available to the consumer today. Available …

Size, weight, speed, latency, endurance, power consumption, price, warranty, etc. All these characteristics help to define storage media and are what classify some drives as entry level, others as mainstream, and a for a select few, enthusiast/prosumer. What if we said we have a drive that is near the perfect mix of all these and the result is that it …

This morning in Seoul, South Korea, Samsung upped the bar once again in the storage world with the announcement of their latest 960 Pro and EVO SSD releases, both NVMe SSDs that have groundbreaking performance, capacities and value. King of the road will be the Samsung 960 Pro PCIe Gen 3×4 NVMe M.2 SSD which will be the first consumer …

Out with the old, in with the new is how the saying goes! Although, in this case, the old really isn’t that old and is still quite bleeding edge technology. This doesn’t stop Samsung though. Today we are going to take a look at the performance of Samsung’s 3rd generation 48-layer 256Gb TLC V-NAND. That is right, Samsung has now …

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 …

A year ago Intel launched their first line up of NVMe SSDs. The DC P3700, DC P3600, and earlier this year they officially launched the DC P3500. As you might be lead to believe, the DC P3700 was their top tier product, which we were able to review, not only in the view of enterprise performance, but also from a …

Though many thought that 2015 might be the year for NVMe SSDs, it might surprise many to also see NVMe mature so quickly.  Such is the case with the newest Samsung PM1725 (HHHL) enterprise SSD which has unheard of data transfer speeds of 5.5GB/s read and 1.8GB/s write.  Built on a structure of PCIe 3.0 and using eight lanes sets …

Once again this year, Samsung has brought together worldwide members of the press in Seoul, South Korea, for an announcement….and TSSDR is front and center.  This will occur at 2:00pm local time which will be a very early morning announcement for all of our North American fans. Traditionally, this particular event has been great news on the SSD sector of …

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, the global leading producer of advanced memory devices, is announcing that it has begun mass production of a 3.2TB capacity NVMe PCIe solid state drive (SSD) for high-end enterprise servers.  The 3.2TB NVMe PCIe SSD, with the model name of SM1715, will utilize Samsung’s latest proprietary 3D V-NAND flash memory technology.  The form factor utilized is …

A few Samsung 845DC Pro reviews popped up rather unexpectedly while most were sidetracked at the Samsung SSD Global Summit in Seoul, South Korea, yesterday, but the biggest news on the 845DC Pro was announced at the event… and a bit unexpectedly we think. Expect pricing of the Samsung 845DC Pro to be anywhere from $1.50 to $2.00/GB. This was …