SSD News

Intel is announcing its newest addition to their Solid-State Drive Professional Series, designated as the Pro2500 Series.  Intel is touting this new Pro2500 series of SSDs as being “Built for business.  Engineered for I.T..”  Intel’s Solid-State Drive Professional family strives to achieve “value pillars” that include security and manageability, quality, reliability, stability and power-efficient performance in multiple form factors; along …

With the release of the SSD DC P3700, Intel has delivered on the most anticipated piece of storage technology in recent memory.  This release is all about NVMe.  We have been hearing about NVMe for years, but an end product always seemed just out of reach.  We also expected the first devices to be exorbitantly priced enterprise SSDs.  While not the …

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 …

Transcend Information, Inc., a leading producer of multimedia and storage devices, is announcing its newest SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Portable Solid-State Drive (SSD), designated as the ESD400 series.  The ESD400 series of portable SSDs is geared towards users who desire larger portable storage capacity with high data transfer speeds — up to a massive 1TB of mobile storage! The ESD400 is …

Transcend Information, Inc., a leading producer of multimedia and storage devices, is announcing the launch of its latest MTS M.2 series of solid state drives (SSDs).  Designed to overcome the ever-stricter and ever-thinner size limitations of today’s portable computing devices, the MTS M.2 series of SSDs feature a SATAIII (6GB/s) interface, and are available in capacities of up to 512GB …

It seems that the world of technology has stopped with allegations that some SSD companies are pulling the old ‘bait and switch’ routine in their SSDs by switching off components that many had recognized through initial SSD reviews. We have read several reports and forums, most of which simply repeat the original information, and finally have decided to clarify things …

SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading producer of flash storage devices, has announced an agreement to acquire Fusion-io, a top developer of flash-based PCIe storage hardware and software products for enterprise and datacenter applications, in an all-cash transaction reportedly valued at approximately $1.1 billion.  Under the terms of the agreement, SanDisk will tender an offer for all outstanding shares of Fusion-io stock …