Explaining enterprise, data center and the newest AI-centric focussed SSDs can sometimes be a bit confusing to many but this week at FMS 2025, KIOXIA displayed something that I have tried to explain for years with respect to what exactly we do and how flash media is structured. Describing ‘flash’ is actually very simple, in that, it is like an …
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SMI had the SM2504XT Gen 5 SSD controller on display at Flash Memory Summit 2025 this week and this controller is a 4-channel NVMe 2.0 SSD controller that can run at up to 3,600MT/s. When utilizing MSDirect Storage, this controller can operate at an unbelievable 2.4W in active power mode and 1mW in PS4 state. Performance for the SM2504XT is …
Read More » This morning at Flash Memory Summit 2025, we came across a new release by SanDisk identifies as the SN5100s client Gen4 SSD. Normally we might not take a second look at Gen 4 SSDs in this scenario, but this SSD brings to light a main theme at FMS this year…higher speeds with better power efficiency. This SSD will provide 7300MB/s …
Read More » A day or two late but we wanted to complete our testing on the newest Crucial X10 Portable SSD for a more complete picture. Coming in at just 65mm x 50mm x 9.9mm and weighing just 42 Grams, this SSD is the smallest form factor 8TB SSD on the planet right now… and we haven’t got one in hand… well …
Read More » This week at Computex ADATA introduced three new SSDs aptly named the Mars 980 SSD line. In common, they are all based on the SMI SM2508 8-channel NVMe SSD controller and all are capable of the expected 14GB/s read and 13GB/s write speeds with up to 2 million IOPS. All are Gen5 x4 (4-lane) form factor 2280 (22mm wide x …
Read More » Our visit to Patriot at Computex in Taiwan this morning resulted in two interesting Patriot soon-to-be releases…and just a bit of familiarity. First off, Patriot has jumped aboard the Silicon Motion train with their newest PV593 which is a Gen5 SSD based on the SMI SM2508 8-channel NVMe SSD controller. This controller will provide speeds of 14GB/s read and 13GB/s …
Read More » I personally think we lose out on some of the best in North American retail and my visit to KIOXIA at Computex 2025 this morning proved correct. I might compound this belief with mention that KIOXIA (formerly Toshiba) is technically the inventor of flash NAND way back in 1987. KIOXIA, while being a very strong enterprise and data center resource …
Read More » Silicon Motion introduced a new Gen5 SSD controller at Computex 2025 this week. The SMI SM2504XT is a Gen5 4-channel DRAMless SSD controller built on the TSMC 6nm process and capable of speeds up to 3600MT/s. This controller is capable of up to 11.5GB/s read and 11GB/s write with 1.7 million read and up to 2 million write IOPS. This …
Read More » If the name Corsair sounds just a bit familiar around these parts, it is because the Corsair name is literally built into every SSD report we have done going all the way back to 2011. What started as a SSD reviewing relationship grew to Corsair becoming our Test Bench peripheral sponsor for some 14 years now. And there is a …
Read More » Having been in the flash review business since the beginning, we have seen so many companies come and go. This morning at Computex we visited Lexar when I realized that they are one of the few companies that we have covered consistently for more than 14 years. And would you believe that we were in for a bit of a …
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