Perhaps the Achilles Heal of the SSD industry has always been heat. We can get you that 14GB/s performance…but at a price. Only recently have we seen Gen5 SSDs doing what it takes to bring down the heat. Things such as smaller footprint controllers, newer memory which can establish higher capacities in a single-sided format, a DRAMless form factor…and now …
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It is not uncommon for products to be introduced at CES, ceBit, Flash Memory Summit or Computex that never see the light of day. This is especially so in the SSD world where products could, as well, not hit the consumer market for years. What is a complete shock, as one who reports on flash media, is when the person …
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Apologies if we did not make the announcement but we have landed! The SSD Review is on the ground in Taipei, Taiwan, and preparing for Computex 2025. This is our first return to the event since 2019 and we are proud to provide special recognition to SMI who has sponsored us for this event. If you would like to meet …
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KIOXIA America, Inc., the inventor of NAND flash memory, will be at Dell Technologies World next week to demonstrate how its innovative solid state drives (SSDs) and memory solutions are simplifying AI adoption, accelerating data-driven workloads, and enabling more efficient, scalable IT infrastructure. KIOXIA will highlight its newest SSD offerings built with the company’s 8th generation BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash …
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KIOXIA announced today that their CM9 Enterprise SSD will be the first SSD to be using their latest 8th Gen BiCS TLC NAND flash memory with CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array). CBA is KIOXIA’s latest architectural innovation that delivers significant advances in power efficiency, performance and density, while doubling available capacity per flash device. This innovation will assist in …
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When a great flash product is introduced, it catches on. This appears to be the case with the newest Kingston Fury Renegade G5 Gen5 SSD, which contains SMI’s latest SM2508 controller. I know most don’t really care what’s inside an SSD but a healthy knowledge of SSDs is a good thing. The reason, of course, is that this SM2508 controller …
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A short time ago, we reviewed an SSD from a mostly unheard of company named Yottamaster. They are a China-based SSD manufacturer and they sent us the ‘Amazon available’ Yottamaster Y7000 Gen4 QLC which we reviewed here. This SSD contained a Maxio MAP1602a ‘Falcon Lite’ 4-channel NVMe SSD controller based on TSMC’s 12nm process which was paired with YMTC 232-layer …
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We’de like to say it’s been a long week evaluating and reporting on ProGrade Digitals newest 4.0 gear but, truth be told, it is just nice to have this entire package in-hand to present it as it should be. Our first report spoke to the PG 20 Pro Thunderbolt 4 Hub where we also looked at both accompanying CFExpress A …
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If I could ask a company to put the complete package of storage products together, it would be exactly what ProGrade Digital has done. It starts with a ProHub by which an assortment of different readers could connect by USB-C for high speed. ProGrade Digital did just that with their PG20 Pro Hub and infused this with the latest in …
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ProGrade Digital has upped the ante when it comes to CFExpress Cards and their latest offerings reach an incredible data transfer speed of over 3500MB/s with 1500MB/s sustained write speeds. This all relies on the newest USB 4.0 standard and they have put together a complete package to include PG20 Pro Hub and CFExpress A/B card Readers which we reviewed …
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