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Lite-On is announcing its MU-II series of solid-state drives (SSDs).  Built in a standard 2.5” x 7mm form factor, the MU-II series of SSDs operate via the SATA 6 Gb/s interface.  These drives feature Toshiba 15nm TLC NAND, enabling an extremely competitive price point. The MU-II series will be offered in capacities of 120GB, 240GB, 480GB and 960GB.  Sequential read …

SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading producer of flash storage devices, is announcing the SanDisk Z410 SSD, a competitively priced solid-state drive (SSD) that allows OEMs to incorporate it into a broad range of laptops and desktop PCs.  The Z410 features 15nm three-bits-per-cell (TLC) NAND, enabling the performance, capacities and form factor that are easily incorporated into most mainstream computing platforms. The …

Sonnet Technologies is announcing its new Fusion™ Thunderbolt™ 3 PCIe® Flash Drive – Windows® Edition, which is a rugged, pocket-size solid-state drive (SSD) featuring the Thunderbolt 3 interface.  Containing 512GB of flash storage onboard, the Fusion Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Flash Drive utilizes Thunderbolt 3’s 40Gb/s bandwidth to attain data transfer speeds of up to 2100 MB/s. Sonnet has designed the …

IDrive Online Backup is announcing the launch of their IDrive One, a wireless storage device that provides advanced wireless connectivity, as well as streaming capabilities.  The IDrive One is offered in both an HDD version with capacities of either 1TB or 2TB, and an SSD  version with capacities of either 128GB or 256GB.  Both versions comes with 1TB of IDrive …

Everspin Technologies is announcing that they have begun shipping 256Mb ST-MRAM samples to select global customers, enabling new storage solutions that use true MRAM-based Storage Class Memory (SCM).  Their new 256Mb ST-MRAM represents a new record for the highest density commercial MRAM currently available in today’s market.  Everspin, who is breaking their own previous record, is a consistent industry leader …

On Tuesday Micron Technology, Inc. introduced to us new NVMe SSDs for the enterprise market, however, that was just one of many announcements. They also announced the creation of Micron Accelerated Solutions, a set of purpose-built, scale-out solutions for open source and software-defined data centers. The first suite of Micron Accelerated Solutions are designed and developed in close collaboration with …

Micron announces a new PCIe solid state drives that leverage the high-performance NVMe protocol. The new Micron 9100 and 7100 PCIe SSDs provide data center customers with purpose-built storage products for implementing an agile, scale-out IT infrastructure. These new drives extend Micron’s rich portfolio of SATA and SAS SSDs that enable customers to extend and improve their legacy data center infrastructure …

Zstor, a Germany-based leading producer of high-performance storage offerings for compute-intensive applications, is announcing its newest flagship storage solution family based on the latest NVMe specification.  Zstor’s new NV-Series is developed in conjunction with Mangstor Inc., and uses Ethernet or Infiniband Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) networks to take advantage of the low latency benefits of the NVMe standard.  This …

Plextor, a world-leading producer of high-performance digital storage devices, is announcing the M7V series of solid-state drives (SSDs), their longest lifespan SSDs to date. The M7V is Plextor’s first SSD utilizing TLC NAND, and when coupled with firmware from Plextor’s in-house firmware team, it is able to achieve up to 2,000 program/erase (P/E) cycles. This is an endurance level that …

Intel Corporation is announcing their first dual-port PCI Express (PCIe) SSDs that utilize the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol.  The dual-port design of the new Intel SSD DC D3700 and D3600 series provides failover and redundancy, which are critical in safeguarding against data loss.  Systems utilizing the D3700 can realize up to a 6 X performance increase as compared to …