With their introduction of the 840 Evo, Samsung has introduced a proprietary TurboWrite Technology which significantly increases the performance of the Samsung 840 Evo family, the top increases being seen in lower capacity SSDs. As an example, where a Samsung 840 may have displayed write performance up to 140MB/s yesterday, the new EVO will increase to 410MB/s. Similarly, the 250GB …
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Samsung RAPID Mode Accelerates 840 EVO to 1GB/s Speeds – 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit Update
Introducing Samsung’s new ‘RAPID Mode’ technology at the 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit this past week was David Lin, former VP Product Management of NVELO, NVELO (and David) now a part of the Samsung family after NVELO was purchased just a few months back. We have been curious as to what plans Samsung had with the former NVELO as their …
Read More »Samsung Announces XS1715 SSD Capable Of 3GB/s & 740K IOPS – 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit Update
Samsung’s 2013 SSD Global Summit has revealed another exciting development on the SSD front — Samsung’s announcement of development of the XS1715 enterprise SSD. The XS1715 is the storage industry’s first SSD featuring the NVM Express (NVMe) PCIe interface, and can achieve sequential read speeds of 3000 MB/s and 740,000 IOPS! Samsung’s XS1715 will be available in capacities of 400GB, 800GB …
Read More »Samsung PCIe Soon To Push Ultras To 1GB/s Speeds – 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit Update
We have only seen one ultrabook pushing 1GB/s transfer speeds to date and that was the Acer Aspire S7 which, well they cheated as they were using a custom dual sided SSD in RAID 0. Next in line was our recent review of the 2013 MBA which, as it stands, is using a custom Samsung PCIe SSD to reach great …
Read More »Samsung Announces 840 EVO 1TB SSD – 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit Update
Once again this year, Samsung has worldwide press present in Seoul, South Korea for their annual 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit. Simply put, this means that a significant consumer SSD release is about to occur. Front and center this year is the new Samsung 840 EVO capable of superior performance and with a welcoming higher capacity point than its predecesor, …
Read More »Micron Announces Development Of 16nm Flash Process Technology As Moore’s Law Rolls On
Micron Technology, Inc., a global leader in storage technology, is announcing sampling of its next-generation 16nm (nanometer) process technology. Micron’s 16nm node is both the industry’s leading Flash process, and the most advanced processing node of any semiconductor device in sampling. This latest die shrink will enable the industry’s smallest 128-Gigabit (Gb) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND Flash memory devices. Micron’s …
Read More »Western Digital Grabs Storage Acceleration Software Specialist VeloBit
Western Digital Corp. has announced the acquisition of storage system performance acceleration software specialist VeloBit. Previously a privately held company, VeloBit has made a strong name for themselves with ground-breaking software technology that utilizes SSDs to create a transparent application acceleration layer to significantly improve storage system performance. VeloBit will be integrated into HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), Western …
Read More »VR-Zone Update — More Intel SSD 5Q Roadmap Info Published
As TSSDR reported a couple of days ago, Chinese site VR-Zone published Intel’s latest SSD roadmap. This roadmap indicates a pending 530 model release, along with M.2 NGFF form factor and mSATA series. VR-Zone has now posted an updated model chart related to the roadmap. The model chart indicates that the 530 series will be offered in M.2 form factor …
Read More »SanDisk’s Enterprise Portfolio Strengthens Yet Again With Acquisition Of SMART Storage Systems
SanDisk Corporation, a worldwide provider of flash memory storage, is announcing that it has agreed to acquire SMART Storage Systems. SMART is a developer and producer of enterprise-grade SATA and SAS solid state drives (SSDs). SMART Storage Systems has been experiencing rapid growth in its own right, with approximately $25 million in revenue in the latest business quarter that ended …
Read More »VR-Zone Posts Intel SSD 5Q Roadmap – LSI SandForce Based 530 and 1500/2500 Pro M.2 SSDs On The Way
We aren’t quite sure how they do it but VR-Zone has discovered and published the Intel SSD Roadmap once again, revealing that we should be seeing a 530 release, along with new M.2 NGFF form factors released in the very near future. Remaining with LSI SandForce, the 5Q Roadmap identifies the 530 as being available in both 2.5″ and M.2 form …
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