It is not often that a new SSD company makes such an impact in today’s technology world, especially when it comes to SSDs. Sabrent has. As much as SSD companies have come and gone, those that own the fabs have had the biggest advantage as they not only control flash pricing, but also, its availability. To clarify, a fab is …
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Phison Shows Off 4/8/16TB SSDs with Success in QLC Speeds | CES 2020 Update
Phison has received alot of credit as of late for their newest Gen 4×4 release of their PS5016-E16 controller. It was the first to hit retail sales and we have posted reviews on both the Corsair MP600 and Seagate Firecuda 520, both SSDs using this controller and hitting unheard of data transfer speeds of up to 5GB/s. Both of these …
Read More »SanDisk Shows Off 8TB USB-C Portable SSD Prototype | CES 2020 Update
CES hasn’t even started yet and storage seems front and central once again as we saw first hand with an unexpected visit to Western Digital/SanDisk last night at Pepcom. Check this out. It is a 8TB palm sized portable SSD that is USB-C and will transfer data…lots of data… above 1GB/s easily. It is an early prototype but this is …
Read More »SecureData 2TB Secure Drive BT External SSD Review
We have looked at plenty of SSD security solutions in the past, the most recent being the Apricorn Aegis Fortress L3 External SSD, or my personal favorite and constant companion, the Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3.0 480GB flash drive which had been with me for some three years now. I prefer hardware security solutions to software, as many do, simply …
Read More »Phison E12 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 Controller Preview: Phison Turns Things Up a Notch
As many of you know, Phison is a well accomplished SSD controller manufacturer. Over the years they have designed some very competitive turnkey solutions for those who don’t have the means to do it themselves, or, helped those who can save some money by simply buying their end product rather than develop their own. Back when SATA was all the …
Read More »Intel SSD DC P4510 Enterprise NVMe SSD Review (2TB/8TB)
Intel has recently expanded their lineup to include some higher capacities and new form factor SSDs that are infused with their latest 64-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory. With this announcement, we were able to get our hands on some of their latest tech, 2TB and 8TB samples of their DC P4510. While these bad boys aren’t the exotic Enterprise …
Read More »Toshiba’s ZD6000 Dual Port NVMe SSD Powers DDN IME14K All-Flash Application and File System Accelerator Software
Toshiba, has just announced that their ZD6000-series NVMe SSDs will now be featured in DDN’s latest servers to provide for the capacity, quality, and reliability needed for the latest application acceleration and burst buffer technologies. Their collaboration enables the DDN IME14K to deliver redundancy, low latency, and game changing performance at the application layer, providing impressive compute ROI. DDN achieved …
Read More »Kingston Demos E1000 PCIe NVMe SSD Capable of 1.25 Million IOPS and More! – CES 2016 Update
CES has been quite interesting so far, with many new consumer storage devices on the horizon. This year, however, Kingston hasn’t announced anything new on the SSD front, that is, for consumer storage. They did, however, show off some of their newest enterprise products including the E1000 PCIe NVMe AIC and announced a new client SATA SSD, the KC400. The …
Read More »Novachips 4TB / 8TB SSD Review – HLNAND Sees 8TB Sizes & Higher, Speed & Low Power
Size, speed, reliability, and value are the variables that have determined SSD success since it’s introduction back in 2007. Today’s consumer can buy a SSD with blistering speeds of 2.5GB/s, another with 2TB of storage, both will last longer than their need requires, and now we can find prices at or below .25/GB. Two things still create a bottleneck in …
Read More »Novachips HLNAND Intros Low Power High Capacity and Fast SSD Storage
On our bench presently are two very high capacity SSDs that we are putting through the paces, one being a 4TB and the other a 8TB notebook form factor SSD. Both use a single controller, perform at typical SATA 3 speeds and use no more power than the typical SSD. This technology is presently available to enterprise and oem …
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