SSD Drives

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 …

It's a 1TB SSD with hardware-based XTS-AES 256-bit data encryption

It's a new external drive from Samsung with built-in fingerprint scanner

Looking for an affordable 500GB NVME drive? We review this model from Toshiba

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 …

It's a fast drive, but is it fast enough that you should part with your money?

Just a few days ago Greenliant announced it had started sampling new SATA SSD’s from the company’s industrial enterprise and have now announced a new line of NVMe U2 SSD devices will be adding to the EnduroSLC series. Greenliant is sampling to customers that require high endurance storage, a new …

It's a highly affordable 480GB NVMe drive from Lexar - how well does it perform?

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be held in Las Vegas between 7th– 10th January 2020, so we don’t have long to wait until we find out what new and innovative technology will be launching in the new year. SK hynix will be there and have some new products on …

Industrial enterprise SSD’s are often subject to harsh environments with devices expected to operate under extreme temperatures. In these situations, a reliable and robust design is required and that is exactly the thought behind a new range of enterprise SSD’s from Greenliant. Greenliant is sampling a new range of enterprise …

OWC has announced a brand new ultra-high performance internal PCIe M.2 SSD that is capable of delivering over 6000 MB/s real-world data transfer speeds in capacities up to 8TB and is the fastest SSD ever built by the company. Accelsior 4M2 is OWC’s most high-performance SSD to date and is …

In recent months we have seen a noticeable decrease in price of M.2 SSD storage solutions, making them more affordable for everyday PC users as well as gamers and enthusiasts looking to take advantage of the high data transfer speeds M.2 drives provide. Biostar has just launched a new addition …

WD launched the SN500 in April 2019 - today we review the next-gen Blue NVMe drive, the SN550

We've been following Patriot's VIPER GAMING series of SSDs for a while now and this week, the new VPR100 M.2 SSD was added to the roster, bringing a dash of RGB colour to the lineup. This is a PCIe Gen 3 SSD, coming in capacities all the way up to …

The DC500M has been designed to meet the needs of mixed-use workload applications in data centres

Kingston's latest DC500R SSD is a drive designed for read-centric workloads in data centres

With an increase in bandwidth and speed of M.2 SSDs, it is a good idea to keep them running as cool as possible to ensure they are operating at maximum performance all the time. Some of the latest PCIe 4.0 M.2 devices feature integrated passive cooling, however, for those that …