SSD Drives

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Samsung has been on a bit of an SSD-binge over the last week. We've seen the launch of the new 860 EVO and PRO series drives and now today, the electronics giant has announced its first Z-SSD product, the SZ985, sporting Z-NAND memory, Samsung's competitor to Intel's 3D XPoint memory …

The Samsung 860 Pro uses 64-layer MLC V-NAND and has an endurance rating that eclipses the previous generation 850 PRO's life expectancy.

The SSD860 EVO uses Samsung's latest 64-layer 3-bit MLC, V-NAND along with a new controller, the MJX.

It looks like Samsung's 4TB 860 Pro SSD won't be the only new drive hitting the market soon. Another update to Samsung's website has unveiled a full range of 860 EVO SSDs too. The 860 Evo listings were more comprehensive, showing new SATA drives in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and …

It looks like Samsung is going to be bolstering its high-capacity SSD options this year, as the company accidentally listed a brand new 860 Pro SSD on its website ahead of an official announcement. The Samsung 860 Pro will be available in capacities up to 4TB, though the price tag …

At CES this week, Toshiba Memory announced plans to bring NVMe M.2 SSDs to the mainstream market with the RC100 NVMe SSD series. These new drives come with a new cost-effective design, allowing NVMe storage to become more accessible to system builders. The RC100 series SSDs are built using Toshiba's …

Since Toshiba announced that it would be selling off its NAND flash factory business, it has run into a number of legal issues with Western Digital. The two firms own joint stakes in a Japanese NAND factory, leaving WD in a tough position, given that Toshiba could sell its stake …

Last year, we first began hearing about DRAM and NAND supply shortages set to take place over the course of this year. Over the last few months, things haven't really improved, with inflated pricing still affecting consumers in many countries. However, it looks like the end might be in sight, …

It’s no secret that Samsung continuously impresses us with its line of SSDs, however its latest update might have botched it for owners of Samsung's 960 Pro drives. Reports have been cropping up that its latest firmware is causing instability across the board, and while Samsung is aware of the …

In the build up to CES in January, a group of judges have been going over some upcoming products ahead of time and giving out Design and Innovation awards. Samsung managed to snap up 36 of them, two of which are of particular interest to PC enthusiasts. The first is …

Patriot's Hellfire M.2 SSD uses a combination of a Phison PS5007-E7 controller and 2D MLC NAND.

It’s somewhat common to convert internal hard drives into external via an enclosure, allowing you to take all of your data on the go. Silverstone is getting ahead of the curve with the newer M.2 technology, offering a new accessory that can turn your M.2 solid state drive (SSD) into …

The Toshiba TR200 series are the first Toshiba retail drives to ship with Toshiba's own 64-layer 3D TLC BiCS NAND.

At launch, the My Passport SSD range consists of three capacities, 256GB, 512GB and the flagship 1TB model.

Update (02/10/17): Just as promised last week, AMD has officially begun rolling out NVMe RAID support for the X399 platform and Threadripper CPUs. If you already have a SATA RAID configuration set up, you will need to back up your data and break it down before proceeding. However, from there …

The new T5 is available in four capacities; 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and the flagship 2TB which is the version Samsung supplied for this review.

The BX300 uses 3D MLC NAND and being a BX drive, is aimed at the value/entry level end of the market.

Just as Western Digital pushes further into the SSD market, the data storage company has announced its acquisition of cloud services company Upthere in hopes of bettering its cloud services. This enables WD to utilise the Upthere's sync functionality, allowing users to backup files and photos across a variety of …

It was a week ago that KitGuru published its review of the WD Blue 500GB SSD with 64-layer BiCS3 3D TLC NAND technology. At the time, we expected pricing for the review unit to be a penny under £168, but it seems that the stock that landed at UK retailers this …

It uses a combination of a Phison PS5007-E7 controller and 15nm MLC NAND.

Earlier this year, we learned that Kingston was getting closer to leading the pack when it came to the SSD market, coming in second to Samsung in 2016 sales. Now this week, Kingston has hit a new milestone, having shipped over six million SSDs worldwide using Marvell controllers. These Kingston …

Intel has been pushing its storage division quite a bit this year. Not only have we seen the launch of Optane Memory and new SSDs based on that but today, Intel has unveiled its new SSD form factor dubbed ‘The Ruler’. This new extra long SSD is designed to bring …

Is this the standard of Solid State Drive that Western Digital fans have been waiting for?

This week, Toshiba is launching the all new TR200 SSD series, using all new hardware. This drive will see the debut of Toshiba’s own 3D NAND Flash technology, which is based on 64-layer TLC BiCS memory. The TR200 series will replace the Trion 100 and Trion 150 SSDs that previously …

The KC1000 has a PCIe Gen 3.0 x 4 interface with a Phison PS5007-E7 controller looking after Toshiba 15nm 2D Planer MLC NAND.

M.2 SSDs are fast and compact but unfortunately in a high-end rig, they can get hot, which can have an adverse effect on performance. We have already seen some motherboard makers start to integrate M.2 SSD coolers into their design but if you happen to have a board that doesn't …

We examine Intel's new 3D XPoint technology in the Optane Memory module.

Last year, we saw Samsung launch the world's largest 2.5-inch SSD in the form of the $10,000 15.36TB PM1633A. While Samsung did have a lead in the capacity race for a while, this year, they have been beat, with Viking Technologies launching a 25TB and a 50TB SSD this week. …

Today, Intel has announced that it has managed to deliver the world's first commercially available 64-layer TLC 3D NAND SSD- something that a number of SSD makers have been striving for recently. This new technology has made its way to market with the Intel SSD 545s, which is geared towards …