During our initial rounds of the various displays at FMS this afternoon, we couldn’t help but notice Toshiba’s display of their new TLC SSD entry.  Given the product name of the SG4, this SSD is A19 Toggle Mode NAND flash memory based and is quoted as being a read performance intensive SSD. Available in the 2.5″, mSATA and M.2 form …

If our pre-conference meetings are indication of what this year is going to be like at the Flash Memory Summit in San Jose, California, hold on to your boots!  One of our first meetings was with Michael Wu of Phison and, not only did he speak of a new 8 channel SATA 3 controller that sounded very promising but also, …

Silicon Motion (SMI)  has met with success as of late with release of their  SM2246EN SATA 3 SSD controller.  It was just under a year ago that we sat with Robert Fan to discuss the future of SM2246EN, while today it can be found in the PNY Optima, Corsair LX, as well as the ADATA SP610 of this report. Our …

In July of last year, Samsung announced their manufacturing of the XS1715, worlds first NVMe SSD capable of performance of 3GB/s throughput and up to 750,000 IOPS.  Unfortunately, the closest anyone has come to that SSD, at least from the review perspective, is through public displays of its progress at both Samsung SSD Summits last fall, and this summer.  Having …

A few days ago, we released our review of the Intel SSD DC P3700 NVMe SSD.  This new entry to the enterprise market brought in just under 500K IOPS in a single PCB and single controller design package, a design not needing the traditional RAID solution to achieve performance above 2.5GB/s.  As much attention as it gained from the enterprise …

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 …

Following up on our coverage of the Samsung SSD Summit 2014, we have Samsung’s latest SATA release enterprise solid state drives.  On the off chance that you missed our other coverage of the 850 Pro, PCIe and SAS interfaces, fly to our home page for further coverage! Stay tuned for more GREAT coverage of the Samsung SSD Summit 2014 in …

Following up on our coverage of the Samsung SSD Summit 2014 here in Seoul, South Korea, below are Samsung’s newest SAS interface offerings. Just on the odd chance that you may have missed our previous postings of the Samsung 850 Pro and PCIe Interface first look, check out our website front page for the latest Samsung SSD Summit news!

By the time this is posted, our review of the Samsung 850 Pro SSD will be live and the world will be seeing the first SSD to use Samsung’s own 3D V-NAND.  This morning, we are in beautiful Seoul, South Korea, and guests of Samsung once again for this summit.  It’s a beautiful day and, well, it was also a …

Some time ago, Samsung introduced their 3D V-NAND (vertical NAND) to the world and NAND flash memory took on a whole new look with what some might call, very high aspirations.  Samsung was quick to point out that, as demands for reduced memory sizes increased, achieving a smaller footprint meant increased error rates and performance limitations. An example of this …