SSD News

Just over two months ago we posted a report on a brand new SSD that we believed might take the industry by storm… if it ever made its way to  retail, client or enterprise sales that is.  We say this as there have been so many SSDs that reviewers have had in their hands over the years that never made …

Up rather early to check out and post some of the best of the best Black Friday Deals at Amazon.  Be lucky you don’t live where I live as the great white North got dumped on last night with one of the the heaviest snowfalls ever and it hasn’t stopped, so for me, a quick post here and then out …

The SSD Review unfortunately cannot attend but this event is definitely worth the mention!  KIOXIA will be showing off their next generation Enterprise and Data Center SSDs at the 2024 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California this week.  We just released a post on their newest XD* Data Center SSD and it might be an amazing visit to see …

KIOXIA this morning announced their newest XD8 Series Data Center PCIe 5.0 (32GT/s x4) SSDs which will provide up to 73% higher performance than the previous generation, greater scalability and enhanced efficiency.  The  XD8 is available in 1.92, 3.84 and 7.62TB and the EDSFF E1.S form factor provides for 9.5, 15 and 25mm heat sink sizes. The XD8 provides performances …

Simply had to post this Amazon price drop as it is a deal on an amazing SSD that is too good to pass up.  Right now at Amazon, the SK Hynix P41 Platinum is going for $134.99 but don’t wait to long; it is a limited time deal. Get the deal here! This is a PCIe 4.0 (Gen 4) NVme …

It has been14 years since our first introduction to so many of today’s KIOXIA team and might you believe we could have imagined that we would be seeing SSDs in space back then?  You bet we did!  Just today, the NG-20 mission rocket took off into space to update the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 with KIOXIA SSDs on the International Space …

Having been around storage and solid state drives for a few years, we can speak with some authority that client SSDs found in PC systems, laptops and ultra books paled in comparison to those retail SSDs being tested.  I can remember our review of the Dell XPS 13 Gold Edition in fact, where the performance spoke to 1500MB/s read and …

KIOXIA has just announced that their PCIE 5.0 CD7 NVMe 2.0 E3.S SSDs are making their grand entrance shipping on select Hewlett Packard Enterprise  (HPE) systems, to include HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers, HPE Alletra 4000 data storage servers and the HPE Synergy 480 Gen11 Compute Module. The CD7 is a rather special SSD as it incorporates the newest Enterprise and …

You have to know that your product is a trusted one when it is requested for an International Space Station! Such is the case with KIOXIA who will be front and center in HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) Edgeline and Proline servers aboard the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 (SBC-2) program International Space Station soon enough. Designed to perform various high-performance computing tasks …

Micron is announcing its newest NVMe SSD offerings for client storage needs. Their new 2550-Series of NVMe SSDs utilize an NVMe 1.4 PCIe Gen4 interface to deliver sequential read speeds of up to 5,000 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 4,000 MB/s. These are the world’s first SSDs that feature Micron’s latest 232-layer NAND, which helps enable faster …