SSD Drives

Memblaze has announced its new PBlaze5 920 series of NVMe SSDs for enterprise systems. Adopting 96-layer 3D eTLC NAND, the PBlaze5 920 series is available in both 2.5-inch U.2 and HHHL add-in card form factors with maximum capacity of up to 7.68 TB. There are a total of four SKUs …

Greenliant has announced that mass production of its industrial temperature 2 TB NVMe and SATA ArmourDrive SSD modules are underway. The announcement confirms that Greenliant will be one of the first companies to offer -40°C to +85°C industrial temperature 2 TB SSDs for industrial applications. The new industrial temperature 2 …

The new flagship SSD of the T-Force line-up is the Cardea Zero Z440 SSD

Seagate has just expanded its IronWolf storage line with the first PCIe SSD designed for business NAS users. The IronWolf 510 was built to deliver 24/7 caching and storage, with a transfer speed of up to 3GBps. The Seagate IronWolf 510 is a PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD capable of withstanding one …

Buffalo has launched a new line of miniature external SSDs, the smallest the company has ever released. Designed to resist damage caused by drops, the SSD-PSMU3 looks more like an USB pen drive than an external SSD. Measuring just 33×9.5×59.5mm and weighing 15 grams, the SSD-PSMU3 is MIL-STD compliant. This …

It's a new PCIe Gen4 SSD from Seagate - how does it fare against the competition?

Western Digital has announced a new line of NVMe SSDs for enterprise systems, the WD Gold series offers small and medium-size enterprises a range of products for a simple transition to NVMe storage and improved system performance. The new series of Western Digital enterprise SSDs are the company’s first to …

Kingston has announced the availability of a new DC1000M SSD series of enterprise-grade SSDs for data centre deployments. The DC1000M series is designed for data-intensive workloads such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and deep learning applications. The new DC1000M U.2 NVMe PCIe SSD series joins the Kingston range of enterprise-class …

Could this SSD's RGB lighting actually hurt performance? we put it to the test

Lexar has announced a new portable SSD series is launching this week, the SL100 Pro Portable SSD range is aimed at users who need fast access to large data files on the go, with its high-speed data transfer rates delivered by a USB 3.1 Type-C interface. The SL100 Pro Portable …

Patriot’s gaming brand Viper has announced it will showcase a new M.2 PCIe external SSD during the gaming festival at PAX East 2020. The new device will be ideally suited to offering extra storage to console gamers with its high-speed data transfer rates and compact form factor. The PAX East …

TeamGroup has introduced two new storage devices that are being added to its portable storage range. The new devices include the multifunctional T183 Stationary Flash drive and the tough PD1000 Portable SSD. The new T193 Stationary Flash drive from TeamGroup is equipped with multifunctional stationary features such as a 180-degree …

Kioxia has announced that its CM6 and CD6 series of PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives for enterprise customers are now being shipped, this means that Kioxia is the first company to ship these next-generation PCIe 4.0 SSDs to enterprise and data centre partners. Both the CM6 and CD6 SSDs are compliant …

ADATA has launched the ISSS333, a 2.5in 3D TLC SSD with power loss protection (PLP). Designed for “applications that require durability, reliability, and high capacities”, the ISSS333 SSD uses a SATA III 6Gb/s interface to deliver transfer speeds of up to 560/520MBps. With capacities ranging from 64GB to 2TB and an extensive …

ADATA has announced a new external SSD series due to be launched very soon. The SE760 external SSD features a stylish design in a compact form factor that makes it easily portable and offers high-speed data transfer rates via a USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface. A compact and streamlined design …

Patriot has launched a new M.2 NVMe SSD series to provide reliable all-round performance for budget-focused desktop and laptop systems. The new P300 series claims to offer higher transfer speeds over traditional PCIe 3 x2 solutions. Being built on the latest PCIe Gen3 x4 controller technology, the new P300 series …

The new ToughArmour MB720M2K-B from ICY DOCK is a new four-bay removable enclosure for M.2 solid-state drives. This means that M.2 SSDs no longer need to be installed directly onto the motherboard or via a riser card and makes M.2 drives more accessible from the front of the system. ICY …

Intel has been celebrating another milestone recently, the company’s memory and storage group announced that last week, it had produced the number 10 million of its QLC 3D NAND based solid-state drive manufactured with the QLC NAND die. Production of the Intel QLC 3D NAND began in Dalian, China late …

QNAP has added a new 24-drive bay to its enterprise ZFS NAS series. The new ES2486dc is QNAP’s first high-availability all-flash NAS to feature dual controllers with Intel Xeon D-2142IT processors for excellent I/O throughput and 10GbE Ethernet connectivity. The ES2486dc from QNAP features a dual active-active controller architecture to …

Mushkin has announced a new range of NVMe SSD drives this week that boasts support for a high-speed data transfer rate of up to 3,500 MB/s. The new PILOT-E series from Muskin is available to consumers now via Amazon UK and offers competitive pricing. The PILOT-E range of NVMe SSD …

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It's a 480GB 2.5in SSD from Lexar - how does it compete against the likes of Samsung and Kingston?

Kingston Technology has announced a new range of NVMe SSDs for data centre solutions. The Data Centre DC1000B M.2 NVMe is optimised for server boot applications and equipped with power-loss protection (PLP). The new Data Centre DC1000B range from Kingston is a high-performance M.2 (2280) NVMe PCIe SSD utilising the …

Luke and Leo share their views on the Intel NUC 9 Extreme at CES 2020

While the main hardware news this week has focused on what’s happening at CES, there are other hardware launches happening at the same time. Samsung has revealed a new line of external SSDs, the T7 Touch series. Samsung claims its new T7 Touch Portable SSD series delivers lightning-fast transfer speeds …

CES 2020 is reaching its halfway point today and we have already seen a stack of innovative and exciting new products launching at the event in the last few days. Western Digital has announced the world’s highest capacity, pocket-sized portable SSD from its SanDisk line, along with other brand-new storage …

Gigabyte has been relatively quiet at CES 2020 so far but today the company has announced a range of new gaming monitors, high-speed memory, portable storage devices and the world’s first liquid-cooled eGPU are being showcased in Las Vegas. Gigabyte will unveil a new affordable gaming monitor series at CES …

Seagate has announced the launch of a revolutionary modular storage solution at CES 2020 today. The Seagate Lyve Drive Mobile System is an efficient data management solution built to manage the surge of enterprise, cloud and edge data. According to a recent IDC study, global datasphere is expected to grow …