SSD News

SMART Modular Technologies, a leading producer of memory and storage devices, is announcing availability of samples of their new 32GB DDR4 NVDIMM-N, representing the highest density DDR4 NVDIMM-N module available in the industry today.  SMART will begin shipping samples at the end of August 2016.  This new 32GB density module dramatically improves application performance, creating an ideal solution for storage …

From a personal perspective, one of the most amusing things about this years Flash Memory Summit is the fact that any number of vendors are purporting to have the world’s fastest SSD in their clutch.  This is no different with Fadu, a small South Korean startup who had their own SSD, the EC800F on display and functioning. As much as …

For those wondering what has been up with Seagate in the last few months, FMS 2016 was a real eye opener as one of the largest companies seemed to come out of Stealth mode.  Our visit to the booth was met with some very impressive hardware, the first of which is this 60TB SAS SSD which just happens to be …

Marvell, a world-leading producer of semiconductor devices, is announcing the expansion of their solid-state drive (SSD) controller portfolio to include their new 88NV1160 Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) DRAM-less SSD controller.  Marvell’s 88NV1160 DRAM-less SSD controller delivers industry-leading performance per watt, and sequential read speeds of up to 1600MB/s.  The 88NV1160 can be utilized in a single ball grid array (BGA) …

Aupera Technologies Inc. and Everspin Technologies are announcing Aupera’s Aup-AXL-M128, the world’s first M.2 storage module, based on Everspin’s 256Mb perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ) ST-MRAM.  Aupera’s Aup-AXL-M128 is currently being utilized in Aupera’s All Flash Array system as a hardware acceleration engine for specific applications that require high performance and low latency. Everspin’s ST-MRAM technology combines high-performance, non-volatile DDR3 …

Nimbus Data is announcing their revolutionary new all-flash platform for cloud and big data, virtualization and massive digital content.  The ExaFlash™ is the result of nearly three years of top-secret development, and has infinite scalability, record-setting efficiency and at a breakthrough cost point. The ExaFlash Platform is a historic development that will reshape the data center and storage industries.  Offering …

Today at FMS 2016 in Santa Clara, California, Samsung led a Keynote that was sure to leave competitors wondering what the heck.  In fact, the most memorable quote we had heard in years at this event just has to be “When you come to see our 3D wafer, you don’t need 3D glasses”, taking a friendly swipe at the Micron …

Mangstor, Inc., a leading producer of next-generation high-performance, non-volatile memory storage devices, is announcing availability of their TITAN NVMe over Fabric (NVMf) Target Software Storage Stack.  TITAN software provides superior performance and ultra-low latencies by tight integration of NVMe SSDs with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Network Interface Cards (NICs) and the efficient utilization of x86 server capabilities. TITAN software …

Seagate Technology plc, a world-leading producer of data storage devices, is announcing two new flash innovations that push the limits of storage computing performance in enterprise data centers to unprecedented territory.  Seagate’s latest include a 60TB serial-attached SCSI (SAS) solid-state drive (SSD) — the largest capacity SSD ever demonstrated, and the 8TB Nytro® XP7200 NVMe SSD.  These two new products …

Mangstor, Inc., a leading producer of next-generation high-performance, non-volatile memory storage devices, is announcing their participation at Flash Memory Summit 2016 from 8/9 through 8/11 in Santa Clara, CA.  Mangstor will be featuring live demonstrations of their award-winning NX6320 NVMf Storage Array in the IT Brand Pulse NVMe SolutionsFest Lab, along with in-booth presentations that cover advanced NMVf applications such …