SSD News

Diablo Technologies has introduced Memory Channel Storage™ (MCS™), a transformational new storage and system memory solution, resetting the bar for latency and throughput for enterprise applications. Diablo leveraged its extensive experience in advanced memory channel interfaces and protocols to deliver a superior system architecture that directly attaches persistent memory to the host processors of a server or storage array. This …

Greenliant Systems, a leading producer of high-security and energy-efficient solid-sate storage devices, is announcing its entry into the removable solid-state drive (SSD) market.  Greenliant is sampling its new mSATA ArmourDrive GLS86 product series.  The mSATA ArmourDrive is designed toward usage scenarios requiring industrial temperature capabilities, higher reliability and long-life data storage and retrieval. The mSATA ArmourDrive has an operating temperature …

ASUS ROG (Republic Of Gamers) is announcing the RAIDR Epxress, a PCIe-based SSD that features support for both older (legacy) BIOS motherboards; as well as for modern UEFI BIOS boards.  The RAIDR Express is targeted to serious gamers and PC power users who demand speed and durability from their systems.  The red and black design, including two-sided metal shields, is …

Intel is announcing its newest generation of solid-state drives (SSDs), the Intel SSD 530 series.  Utilizing multiple small form factors, higher performance and low idle power, Intel is referring to the 530 series as the next evolution of Intel SSDs. Image credit:  pcper.com With the introduction of the latest M.2 form factor, Intel shrinks the total storage area dramatically versus …

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. is announcing availability of its new ZD-XL SQL Accelerator.  The ZD-XL was first featured live at Interop 2013, and won a Best of Show Award in the Data Center and Storage segment.  By closely integrating OCZ’s high-performance PCIe solid-state drive (SSD) hardware with an enterprise software suite, users will see significant acceleration and optimization of their …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …