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So I am a few thousand feet above the ground and one specific manufacturer’s meeting, and subsequent booth visit, is still weighing heavily on my mind.  As a trusted tech review resource, remaining independent and impartial plays just as important a role as being able to establish successful relationships with SSD companies and working together in advancing SSD technology as …

This week at FMS, Micron was on hand to, not only display, but also to show their new 16nm NAND flash memory in an operational state.  For this they were awarded the Flash Memory Summit Best of Show Award. Micron’s 16nm memory is intended for consumer SSDs and similar consumer devices and is the smallest MLC memory package available. 16nm …

It hasn’t been two weeks since we posted a detailed writeup of SMART’s new UltraDimm and they were one of the first to be seen in the display area of FMS for some great shots.  Not only could the quality of this product be seen through their presentation, but also, their combined effort with partners Diablo and Marvell was obvious.  …

LSI SandForce has definitely been busy as of late as we learned of their 3rd gen controller at Computex, their new SHIELD advanced error correction that increases SSD life significantly and they were the first to display Toshiba’s A19 memory functioning in a LSI SandForce SSD.  Next up is something that even we never expected and it goes by the …

Today at FMS 2013, Monika Kloudova of LSI demonstrated LSI’s new SHIELD Advanced Error Correction technology which has the ability to significantly increase the life cycle of LSI next generation SSDs.  For those really confused when it comes to error correction, let’s just say that all SSDs, just like all hard drives, encounter errors.  As the storage medium grows older …

Although SK Hynix isn’t as well known as Toshiba, Samsung or Intel/Micron (IMFT), they are one of the few in the world that own the fab.  By owning the fab, we mean that SK Hynix manufacturers NAND flash memory.  In the SSD world, the key to ultimate success (some might say) is to be able to market a complete package …

It doesn’t seem so long ago but it it was 2010 when SandForce teamed up with Intel to display the first working model of an SSD using Intel’s new 25nm NAND flash memory.  That led to several very popular articles on TSSDR as it was the first clue that led us on the track of discovering that Intel would be …

Plextor had a fairly good showing this week at FMS 2013 and did provide a sample of their upcoming M6 SSD for display.  Unfortunately it was in a simple brushed aluminum casing , void of any branding.  Rather unique however, was seeing how thin notebook form factors SSDs are becoming, this sample being only 5mm thin. The highlight of this, …

MyDigitalSSD is announcing their new Super Cache 2 (SC2) mSATA 6 Gb/s SSD, a lower cost solution where PC users are able to achieve system performance comparable to that of an SSD, without giving up the larger capacity of an HDD.  Current notebook and desktop motherboards are increasingly being outfitted with an extra mSATA slot, allowing the SC2 to be …

If you could call it controller wars, it certainly seems to be shaping up that way with yet another company introducing a controller in excess of that 1GB/s performance ‘line in the sand’.  At FMS 2013 this morning, Phison displayed their new PS5006 PCIe controller and it is capable of an amazing 1.5GB/s read and 1.3GB/s write performance. The PS5006 …

It wasn’t so long ago that the question was whether manufacturers would tend to resist the NGFF/M.2 implementation for standardization.  As did Computex in June, this years FMS seems to show that the M.2 will do very well and this could find the eventual demise of the mSATA SSD.  Shown here, we see Toshiba’s new M.2 SSD and a Toshiba …

Super Talent Technology, a leading producer of NAND flash storage devices, is announcing availability of the long-awaited USB 3.0 Express Dram*Disk.  This USB 3.0 Express device and its proprietary onboard software  work with your computer’s available RAM to transfer files at blistering speeds.  The Super Talent USB 3.0 Dram*Disk can help your computer attain sequential read speeds of up to …

We have worked behind the scenes with Viking Technology for several years now and will be the first to say that they are a company that always seems to be creating great tech but gaining little recognition in comparison to the big names.  This year at FMS is different as they display what we believe to be the worlds first …

As a follow up of our great interview with Gary Gentry and the Seagate Team yesterday, we thought we might bring you for a quick tour of the FMS 2013 Seagate booth, which coincidentally sits right beside SK Hynix (new owner of LAMD controller) and LSI (strategically set with Seagate for SSD future). As you approach the display, we are …

So the story goes that somewhere at FMS 2013 a certain person is floating around with a new Seagate SSD that contains a LSI SandForce controller.  Parallel to that, the question has been in place for some time as to what will become of Seagate’s relationship with LAMD, recently purchased by SK Hynix, and where will that stand with Seagate …