SSD News

EDGE Memory, a leading U.S.-based designer and producer of storage and memory devices, is announcing the release of their newest solid-state drive (SSD) — the EDGE Revolution 7mm.  EDGE’s Revolution SSD is made in the U.S.A., and is TAA (Trade Agreements Act) compliant, becoming one of the first of its kind available on today’s market.  The high-performance Revolution SSD is …

This year at Computex 2014 in Taipei, Taiwan, Computex held what could be considered one of the greatest invite tickets to any tech event for some time, The Kingston Product Release and HyperX OC Takeover at the Kelti Tower in Taipei. We have already covered this event here, here and here, but thought we might return once more as there …

MyDigitalSSD is announcing the MyDigitalSSD Super Boot 256GB M.2 2242 NGFF SSD — the world’s first offering of a 256GB capacity in the M.2 2242 form factor.  The latest addition to their Super Boot series of SSDs offers industry-leading performance and reliability in addition to the larger storage capacity.  The MyDigitalSSD Super Boot M.2 2242 256GB is an ideal upgrade …

Kingston today announced a new SSD in the HyperX line that has branded as Fury.  It is a 2.5″ notebook SSD, equipped with the LSI SandForce SF-2281 controller and IMFT L85 memory. The HyperX Fury will be marketed as a 240GB SSD at this point and time and pricing is expected to be very competitive. In addition, Kingston will be …

Kingston today unveiled a totally unexpected SSD aptly named the HyperX and it is a M.2 PCIe X4 SSD with none other than the Marvell Altaplus 88SS9293 controller at the helm.  The paint hadn’t even dried on our previous post where we spoke of our meeting with Marvell and the importance of a Q4 release. We found the new HyperX …

Our visit with Marvell this week at Computex went as expected and we got a bit of an update on their Altaplus M.2 PCIe X4 controller, previously designated as the Altaplus and numbered 88SS9293.  Timing right now for Marvell is great as Q4 is going to be a key point in time for M.2 X4 release.  LSI expects that the …

Kingston Digital Inc., the Flash memory division of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., and world-leading producer of memory devices, is announcing a new M.2 2280 SATA solid-state drive (SSD).  With shipments to begin in the second week of June 2014, the new 22mm x 80mm M.2 dimensions create a compact, thin and caseless form factor that is ideal for newer notebook …

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation, a leading designer and producer of NAND flash controllers for solid state drives (SSDs), is announcing that its SM2246EN SATA 6Gb/s SSD controller now supports the latest 16nm 128Gb MLC NAND from Micron.  The combination of the SM2246EN and the Micron 16nm 128Gb NAND is ideal for high performance SSDs up to 1TB in capacity. According …

As much as I am a fan of the LSI SF3700 controller, I have to wonder if LSI  introduced it just a bit too soon.  We had a chat with LSI’s Thad Omura this week at Computex, and we pretty much already knew what we were in for.  Perhaps I am just asking for too much too soon… Imagine that …

Our friends at Plextor jumped into the big leagues this week at Computex 2014 by introducing their newest PlexTurbo caching software pushing write performance up to an unbelievable 5.9GB/s write speeds from a single M6 Pro SSD. Not only is this caching software the first true competitor to Samsung’s RAPID software, but also, it simply annihilates RAPID. For those who …