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HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), a Western Digital company, is announcing the launch of its new FlashMAXTMIII series of PCIe accelerator cards.  HGST’s newest PCIe SSDs offer a dramatic improvement in the price-to-performance ratio of today’s most demanding cloud and database workloads.  HGST is also introducing its new ServerCacheTM caching software that enables IT admins to add acceleration into …

BiTMICRO Networks, Inc., who have been shipping SSDs since 1999, are announcing the MAXio(TM) family of PCIe solid-state drives for the enterprise market.  Featuring BiTMICRO’s proprietary Talino(TM) ASIC architecture, the MAXio E-series of SSDs offers performance and reliability, as well as huge capacity, for companies operating high-volume application workloads. The E-series of BiTMICRO’s new MAXio SSDs also ensure data integrity via …

At the 2014 Samsung SSD Global Summit, Samsung showcased its latest consumer SSD, the 850 PRO.  Just like the 840 PRO before it, we loved the 850 PRO’s performance and technological advances.  In fact, it is probably the best SATA 3 (6Gbps) drive on the market.  As an enterprise reviewer, I expected the normal 6-12 month wait before the 850 …

NxGn Data, a designer and producer of an entirely new generation of intelligent solid-state drives (SSDs), is announcing its presence to the storage world as it exits “stealth” mode.  By offering intelligent SSD solutions that are based on its own proprietary SoC (system-on-chip) controllers, NxGn Data believes that it can eliminate storage bottlenecks by moving computational tasks closer to where …

Kingston Digital, Inc., which is Kingston Technology Company, Inc.’s Flash memory division, has announced its newest iteration of the SSDNow V300 Family, designated as the V310.  The Kingston SSDNow V310 delivers the boosted performance and system responsiveness typical of a solid-state drive upgrade, while also offering 960GB of capacity to store games, movies, music, files, programs and applications. Utilizing a …

Silicon Motion (SMI)  has met with success as of late with release of their  SM2246EN SATA 3 SSD controller.  It was just under a year ago that we sat with Robert Fan to discuss the future of SM2246EN, while today it can be found in the PNY Optima, Corsair LX, as well as the ADATA SP610 of this report. Our …

Segmented into three series are Samsung’s newest line of SD cards; their naming scheme following their SSD offerings with the Pro and EVO designations. We recently reviewed the 64GB microSDXC version of their highest end Pro and were very impressed with its market leading performance. Following their Pro series, Samsung released the EVO series and Standard series cards. Today we …

SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading producer of flash storage devices, is announcing that it has completed the previously-announced acquisition of Fusion-io.  Fusion-io is a leading producer of flash-based PCIe solid-state devices and software solutions that accelerate performance for enterprise and hyperscale datacenters. Under the agreement’s terms, SanDisk has completed the acquisition for $11.25 per share for the outstanding shares of Fusion-io, …

Intel is announcing its newest addition to their Solid-State Drive Professional Series, designated as the Pro2500 Series.  Intel is touting this new Pro2500 series of SSDs as being “Built for business.  Engineered for I.T..”  Intel’s Solid-State Drive Professional family strives to achieve “value pillars” that include security and manageability, quality, reliability, stability and power-efficient performance in multiple form factors; along …

In July of last year, Samsung announced their manufacturing of the XS1715, worlds first NVMe SSD capable of performance of 3GB/s throughput and up to 750,000 IOPS.  Unfortunately, the closest anyone has come to that SSD, at least from the review perspective, is through public displays of its progress at both Samsung SSD Summits last fall, and this summer.  Having …

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It’s not every day that we see an SSD that makes us stop and think.  After our trip to Computex, we were able to take delivery of something that is fairly unique in terms of enterprise storage.  The ALLONE Cloud Disk Drive 101 RAMDisk is not your normal SSD, in fact, it really isn’t an SSD at all. Technically speaking, …

As fast as SSDs have found mainstream consumer use, they are unfortunately grouped in the same picture as a hard drive, if only for the fact that they are seen as storage and little more.  Both the size and demography of our readership paints this picture clearly, however, there exists an amazing opportunity to take our readers a step further; …

A few days ago, we released our review of the Intel SSD DC P3700 NVMe SSD.  This new entry to the enterprise market brought in just under 500K IOPS in a single PCB and single controller design package, a design not needing the traditional RAID solution to achieve performance above 2.5GB/s.  As much attention as it gained from the enterprise …

With the release of the SSD DC P3700, Intel has delivered on the most anticipated piece of storage technology in recent memory.  This release is all about NVMe.  We have been hearing about NVMe for years, but an end product always seemed just out of reach.  We also expected the first devices to be exorbitantly priced enterprise SSDs.  While not the …