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If you’re a fan of SSDs, you won’t be surprised with the latest thought process that SSDs need to be cooled.  As of late, there seems to be a common theme that some type of SSD cooling is better than no cooling at all and, with respect to that thought, I would agree entirely.  Whether I might agree that SSDs, …

In May of 2016, we published a report from Computex that described the latest ADATA line and their continued willingness to support a number of SSD controllers within their SSD designs.  The report is here.  Within their line was a new notebook SSD that was being aimed directly at the consumer with what was expected to be a very low price point. …

An old friend introduced us to a company at Computex 2017 this year, and I have to admit it was an introduction that I am glad we made.  AkiTiO specializes in storage designs to include, not only RAID cases but also, they have some amazing designs that speak to network and eGPU Nodes for laptops with Thunderbolt 3. Their latest …

If you have read our latest review of the Kingston DCP1000 SSD, you will see that multi-M.2 SSD designs can result in some of the highest speeds we have seen in SSD performance.  In the case of the Kingston DCP1000, we pulled off performance of 7GB/s throughput and 1.2 million IOPS from a single AIC (add-in card) HHHL design. This …

Plextor announced their production of their newest M9PE PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe this week at Computex 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan.  The M9Pe is based on the Marvell 88SS1093 controller, code named Eldora, and Toshiba’ newest 512gb BiCS 3D TLC 64 layer memory. Available in either M.2 or PCIe add-in card, the M9Pe will be equipped with a heatsink as it …

Probably one of the most amusing things that we are seeing at Computex 2017 is the fact that several manufacturers are sporting very similarly constructed SSDs, with different stickers.  It is reminiscent of how the industry started with many 3rd party sellers simply rebranding Intel’ first X-25M SATA 2 SSD almost 10 years ago. All have a very common theme. …

ADATA has never been short of SSD variation at any tech events we have covered in recent years, consistently displaying drives with a variation of controllers, memory, as well as performance designed for any number of tasks.  This year at CES was no different.  Let’s jump in with their very own Gamers SSD right off: GAMMIX S10 GAMING SSD Based …

Intel is announcing the DC P4501 data center SSD, a power-efficient and high-performance SSD for cloud storage.  The P4501 Series, featuring 2nd generation Intel 3D NAND technology, combines a new controller (Intel-developed), unique firmware and the density of 3D NAND to create an efficient, low power, high-performance small form factor design. The P4501 Series are optimized to meet the needs …

Toshiba is announcing the XG5 M.2 NVMe SSD, representing the industry’s first SSD to ship with 64-layer BiCS FLASH­­­™ 3D memory.  First demonstrated at Dell/EMC World, the XG5 is geared toward mainstream computing, thin performance notebooks, and enthusiast desktops and laptops. Utilizing Toshiba’s BiCS FLASH­™ 3D flash memory and its vertically stacked cell structure allows for higher capacity in the …

While spending time with Crucial at Computex Taipei today, we had the opportunity to see a comparison in NAND size that was quite interesting.  This sheet below displays Micron’ 16nm planar NAND as well as their Gen1 3D memory and their latest Gen 2, possibly the smallest footprint in the industry. Examining this sheet is a great example of how technology is …