CES 2016

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 …

One interesting aspect of CES is encountering new entrants into certain product categories, such as is the case with Unirex Memory. Unirex Memory is a California-based company that has recently launched their line of Unirex Digital Memory products that include Micro SD cards and Micro SD cards with adaptors, SD Cards, Micro SD cards with USB readers, flash memory USBs, …

Toshiba’s show room was packed with NVMe goodness and a bit more. To start off, while Toshiba does not target the consumer retail market under their name they do target OEM and enterprise customers with their client and enterprise products. Thus, many consumers end up using their storage devices without even knowing it! Nothing is necessarily new from what we …

We continue our tour of CES with Mushkin, where we were introduced to a variety of flash products including gate new Mushkin ECO3, Impact USB 3.0 drives and an interesting SSD prototype. The Mushkin Eco3 is a 2.5″ form factor SSD that will include a Silicon Motion SM2256 controller, will be SATA 3.1 (6Gb/s) interface (backwards compatible with SATA Revisions …

Our adventure continues throughout CES as we and Technology X visited the Patriot suite to review their latest and greatest, especially when it comes to their storage division. We received a quick look at Patriot’s new M.2 PCIe SSD as well as a prototype of a new 2.5″ form factor SSD. First up, the Hellfire. This M.2 PCIe Gen 3×4 …

OWC, a leading producer of Mac and PC flash storage products and accessories, is announcing that it has double the largest capacity of their Envoy Pro Mini SSD in thumb drive form factor to 480GB. This stylish, aluminum cased, pocket-sized thumb drive offers the full capabilities of a standard desktop SSD in a much more portable form factor. OWC announced …

Today we met with Micron/Lexar/Crucial, to specifically discuss Lexar and their new products being released at CES 2016. Being released are new microSD cards as well as a portable SSD. First up is the Lexar Professional 1800x microSDHC/microSDXC UHS-II cards. They are class 10 U3 microSD cards capable of read speeds of up to 270 MB/s and writes up to …

We continue our CES adventures by meeting up with Adata. On display in their suite was a variety of products, but their emphasis this year at CES was enterprise storage and consumer memory solutions. First up on display was the latest memory solution with two new flavours of their XPG lineup with white and titanium DDR4 memory modules. Accompanied with this was …

After a long delay to the convention center today we were finally able to make it to the OCZ showroom where one of their newest products caught us by surprise. Along with the Vector 180 and Trion 100, OCZ showcased their Trion 150. The Trion 150 has nearly identical specs to its predecessor with 550/530MB/s read/write speeds, capacities ranging from …

Wednesday afternoon brought us to the Sands Expo Center for a one-on-one meeting with Marvell. Their CES 2016 announcement centers around the addition of support for Host Memory Buffer (HMB) to their Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) 88NV1140 SSD controller. HMB is an NVMe revision 1.2 feature that enable DRAM-less SSDs to utilize host memory to achieve the performance of SSD …