SSD Drives

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 …

HP has identified a bug with its enterprise SSDs that is causing devices to fail prematurely, the company has released a support bulletin outlining a firmware update to prevent drive failure at 32,768 hours. Enterprise SSD devices affected by the premature failure problem are from certain models of the HPE …

Intel has launched its second generation QLC 3D NAND SSDs, succeeding the 660p series with the 665p series. The new Intel SSD 665p series is the “first 96-layer QLC-based PCIe SSD” to be manufactured. The 665p series comes with in a 1TB or 2TB capacity, offering “great value for everyday …

Yesterday, Corsair announced a set of components that have been validated to work in a 3rd Gen AMD Threadripper build, just in time for the new Threadripper processors' release. All of these components were tested and validated to work with the new HEDT CPUs. Readying for the new AMD Threadripper …

Over the last 12 months or so, we have seen the cost of NVMe M.2 SSD storage drives fall to a much more affordable level for most PC users. This decrease in cost, paired with the performance they offer, makes them the number one choice for gamers, creators and designers …

With such a vast number of mobile devices supporting external portable storage these days, choosing the right device to suit your needs can be a daunting prospect. ADATA has made that decision more simple with the release of a new external SSD range that covers all the bases. Whether you …

Formally known as Toshiba Memory, KIOXIA America, the U.S based subsidiary of the KIOXIA Corporation has announced its range of PCIe 4.0 NVMe enterprise SSDs has achieved PCI-SIG compliance for PCIe 4.0 specification, along with University of Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) certification. KIOXIA America is planning to be on hand …