CNEX Labs and LITE-ON partnered at Flash Memory Summit 2018 to showcase the next generation LITE-ON SSD EDSFF (Enterprise and Data Center SSD Form Factor) platform. The LITE-ON SSD EDSFF is engineered for comprehensive flexibility with non-heterogenous cloud usage, whether with high IOPS density AI and other compute-intensive needs, or with high capacity density storage usage. This unprecedented flexibility is …
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NGD Introduces Newport for Computational Storage – FMS 2018 Update
While we might typically recognize a M.2 2280 form factor SSD to be the latest and greatest in portable storage, NGD brought something new to the game at FMS this week; the NGD Newport. The NGD Newport platform encompasses three different form factors; the M.2 which we see here capable of an unbelievable 8TB storage, the U.2 at 32TB and …
Read More »Seagate Announces New Nytro Family of Enterprise SSDs – Flash Memory Summit 2018 Update
Seagate’s presence at Flash Memory Summit 2018 is highlighted by their showcasing of their newest line of Nytro Enterprise SSDs. Available in both SATA and NVMe versions, The Nytro SSDs are designed to be the backbone of enterprise cloud infrastructures, and is an excellent choice for IT managers looking to upgrade their existing storage systems. Both the Nytro 1000 SATA …
Read More »Silicon Motion Announces SM2270 Dual-Mode Enterprise SSD Controller – Flash Memory Summit 2018 Update
Silicon Motion is present at Flash Memory Summit 2018 in Santa Clara, California, and they are announcing their new SM2270 dual-mode enterprise-class SSD NAND controller. The dual-mode SM2270 is a complete SSD NAND controller solution, and can be provided with either turnkey firmware or customer specific firmware. The SM2270 supports standard NVMe protocols, plus now supports Open Channel storage implementations. …
Read More »Phison to Display Industry-Leading NAND Controller Solutions – Flash Memory Summit 2018 Update
Flash Memory Summit 2018 is taking place from August 7th through 9th in Santa Clara, California, and Phison will be there displaying their latest industry-leading NAND controller technology and solutions. Their show highlight will be their new PS5012-E12DC Enterprise PCIe 3.0×4 NVMe SSD controller, which our Sean Webster recently previewed for us. This controller is specifically optimized for enterprise applications, …
Read More »Samsung Announces Mass Production of Industry’s First QLC (4-bit, quad-level cell) SSD For Consumers — Up to 4TB In a Single 2.5″ SATA Drive
Samsung is announcing that it has begun mass production of the industry’s first QLC (4-bit, quad-level cell) SATA solid-state drive (SSD) for consumers. Based on 1-terabit (Tb) V-NAND that features outstanding performance similar to Samsung’s 3-bit design, their QLC SSDs are expected to offer new levels of efficiency to consumers, with capacities of up to 4TB in a single 2.5″ …
Read More »Radian Memory Announces Industry’s First Open-Channel 2-Compliant SSD
Radian Memory Systems is announcing the industry’s first Open-Channel 2-compliant solid-state drive (SSD). The U.2 form factor RMS-350 offers up to 12TB of Flash, and is unique in including up to 12GB of byte-addressable, PMR style user NV-RAM. The RMS-350 is targeted toward All-Flash Arrays, cloud storage and hyperconverged systems and offers highly parallelized, deterministic input/output (I/O), and minimizes tail …
Read More »Samsung Announces NF1 8TB SSD for Data Centers
Samsung is announcing the launch of the industry’s highest-capacity NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) based on the extremely small Next-generation Small Form Factor (NGSFF), an 8TB drive designated as the NF1 SSD. The NF1 is optimized for data-intensive analytics and virtualization applications in modern data centers and server systems. The NF1 features 16 of Samsung’s 512GB NAND packages, with 16 layers …
Read More »Maxiotek Displays 4TB M.2 SSD on Proprietary Controller – Computex 2018 Update
This morning at Computex 2018 Taipei, Maxiotek had a 4TB M.2 SSD on display, displaying their newest MAP0901 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 controller. Aside from learning that this SSD was a two sided SSD and capable of accommodating all of the most recent memory configurations, little information was available during our visit. We might bet that QLC would be a …
Read More »Patriot Displays Newest Viper Line of SSDs – Computex 2018 Taipei Update
It has always been said that what goes around comes around. Looking back historically at the SSD industry, everyone knew that, at some point, the NAND manufacturers would force smaller third party SSD manufacturers to cut prices drastically…or disappear. And so they did. Times change though and this year at Computex 2018, Taipei, we are seeing what many might consider …
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