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 …
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SMART Modular Announces Industry’s First 32GB DDR4 NVDIMM-N – Flash Memory Summit 2016 Update
SMART Modular Technologies, a leading producer of memory and storage devices, is announcing availability of samples of their new 32GB DDR4 NVDIMM-N, representing the highest density DDR4 NVDIMM-N module available in the industry today. SMART will begin shipping samples at the end of August 2016. This new 32GB density module dramatically improves application performance, creating an ideal solution for storage …
Read More »Micron’s Future Without Mark Adams – Storage Visions 2016 Update
Of course Storage visions is where we learn what the future will hold in terms of storage. Right now, who better to look at than Micron about this subject? Just yesterday Micron, one of the biggest players in both the DRAM and NAND, released a press statement entailing that their president Mark Adams has resigned due to personal health reasons. …
Read More »Complete Guide To Speeding Up Your PC’s Boot Time – Under 10 Seconds is Possible
As you know, many people buy SSDs to not only speed up their computing experience, but also speed up the boot time of their machines. SSDs will sometimes cut minutes off boot times when compared to hard drives, however, more often than not, many people do not know how to properly configure, or even know that it is possible to …
Read More »Marvell Readies Altaplus PCIe X4 SD Controller For Q4 – Computex 2014 Update
Our visit with Marvell this week at Computex went as expected and we got a bit of an update on their Altaplus M.2 PCIe X4 controller, previously designated as the Altaplus and numbered 88SS9293. Timing right now for Marvell is great as Q4 is going to be a key point in time for M.2 X4 release. LSI expects that the …
Read More »Building a New Dual Intel/AMD Triple 2560×1440 Display 5Ft High PC System
Occasionally at TSSDR, a number of things fall in place where we think that a new build might be best to highlight new hardware. Such is the case with our receipt and significant testing with the latest and greatest from ASRock, the ASRock Z87 Intel based Extreme11/ac and AM3 based Fatal1ty 990FX Killer AM3+/AM motherboards. Their sheer design is a …
Read More »ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac Mobo Reaches 6 GB/s & 850K IOPS
Our report today will demonstrate single and RAID tests when we combine the newest ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac motherboard with eight HGST SSD800MM SAS 12Gbps 400GB enterprise SSDs. Our charts will display how the HGST SSD800MM scales as it is tested on its own, as well as in RAID 0 at X2, X4 and X8 combinations. We can validate right off …
Read More »Building a Home Server – The Complete Guide
Over the past few years, The SSD Review has enjoyed a fairly smooth ride with little to complain about. It wasn’t until our readership explosion that we realized how important backups were. There is nothing worse than a site crash, other than a site crash which also contains a Forum of course. The sudden loss of days, weeks, months and …
Read More »Kingston Releases LSI Sandforce Series 5 Firmware Fix As Speed Converges With Bug Smashing
Kingston Technology, a major player in the consumer SSD segment, has recently released a new version of LSI/SandForce’s Series 5 firmware for their Hyper x/Hyper X 3K drives. The new 5.0.3 firmware apparently fixes the TRIM functionality, which was not working,in its entirety, in previous versions. Hopefully, Kingston will be only the first of many to adopt this crucial fix …
Read More »Z68 Extreme 7 Test Bench
Our Z68 Test Bench is housed within the Fractal Design Define XL chassis which remains to be one of the most sound proof cases available today. It contains an insulated sound proof front door and, as well, the panels of the case itself are insulated with sound proof material as well. The motherboard is an ASRock Z68 Extreme 7 which …
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