By the time this is posted, our review of the Samsung 850 Pro SSD will be live and the world will be seeing the first SSD to use Samsung’s own 3D V-NAND. This morning, we are in beautiful Seoul, South Korea, and guests of Samsung once again for this summit. It’s a beautiful day and, well, it was also a …
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Samsung 850 Pro SSD Review – Showing Off With 3D V-NAND
Some time ago, Samsung introduced their 3D V-NAND (vertical NAND) to the world and NAND flash memory took on a whole new look with what some might call, very high aspirations. Samsung was quick to point out that, as demands for reduced memory sizes increased, achieving a smaller footprint meant increased error rates and performance limitations. An example of this …
Read More »Samsung 845DC EVO Review (960GB) – Great Read Performance & Low Pricing
Samsung is today extending its enterprise offering with the release of the 845DC EVO. They are aiming this release directly at those server and data center customers who are looking for a cost effective solution with great consistency and performance. A little over a year ago, we took a look at the Samsung SM843, an enterprise SSD that competed in …
Read More »ASRock Z97 Extreme6 Tests Samsung XP941 M.2 x4, Plextor M6e M.2 x2 and Samsung 840 Pro SATA 3 SSDs
To anyone not familiar with SSDs, our title might not seem that striking, but it represents a huge step forward in storage technology within a very short time. It also speaks highly of ASRock for again leading the way in advancing storage, as they are the only to incorporate a new SSD innovation into their Extreme 6 motherboard; this of …
Read More »Samsung Announces Mass Production of Industry’s First 3-bits-per-cell (MLC) NAND-based SSDs For Data Centers
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leading producer of memory products, is announcing that it has begun mass production of the industry’s first high-performance SSDs utilizing three-bits-per-cell (MLC) NAND that is geared toward servers and data centers. This new SSD will allow IT pros to better manage workloads that are related to e-mail, web browsing and social networking, helping to …
Read More »Samsung’s NVMe PCIe SSD — Industry’s First — To Be Featured In Dell PowerEdge R920 Server
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., global leader in advanced memory solutions, is announcing that its industry-first NVMe PCIe 1.6TB SSD is to be featured in Dell’s new R920 PowerEdge server. This partnership between Samsung and Dell gives them the distinction of being first in the world to ship a computing solution with SSDs that use the NVMe (non-volatile memory express) protocol, …
Read More »8 PCIe & SATA M.2 SSDs Test ASRock’s Fatal1ty 990FX Killer AM3+ AMD MotherBoard
Some time ago, Asus released their newest Z87 ROG Maximus VI motherboard and it was the first to take a crack at M.2 SSDs. Our review of the ADATA AXNS360E M.2 SSD looked at the Maximus VI first hand As much as we loved such things as SSD Secure Erase and the UEFI on the board, their M.2 design …
Read More »LaCie Little Big Disk ThunderBolt 2 Achieves Wicked Speed With 2 x XP941 PCIe M.2 SSDs in RAID 0 – Pepcom Las Vegas 2014 Update
La Cie, a recent acquisition of our friends at Seagate, pulled off what just might be the storage highlight of CES this evening at Pepcom Las Vegas 2014. Using, not one but, two Samsung XP941 PCIe M.2 SSDs in a RAID 0 format, they were able to achieve well over 1GB/s using their new Little Big Disk ThunderBolt 2 External …
Read More »Samsung Displays Series 9 UltraBook Containing 1GB/s Speed PCIe M.2 SSD – Pepcom Las Vegas 2014 Update
I had almost thought I might never see it and truly can’t stand by what might happen down the road, but Samsung had their ‘pre-production’ Series 9 ultrabook on display at Pepcom with it’s own Samsung XP941 PCIe M.2 SSD, performing at 1GB/s. To those not familiar with Samsung, they value their business relationships dearly and the XP941 PCIe SSD …
Read More »Samsung Self-Encrypting Drive Technology — Storage Visions 2014 Update
This morning finds us at the opening of Storage Visions 2014. Our first visit of the day is with the fine folks at Samsung, where they are featuring their 840 Evo series of SSDs, which we previously reviewed here, and the mSATA version here, and their latest self-encrypting SSD technology. It is almost weekly that we hear of another major data …
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