SSD Drives

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday unveiled its new flagship solid-state drive for high-performance desktops that is based on the company’s 3D V-NAND memory. The manufacturer claims that the new 850 Pro-series SSDs offer the highest level of performance among solid-state drives that use the SATA III (6Gb/s) interface. The Samsung 850 …

Few console-related subjects raise the blood pressure quite as much as storage. Should you live with what Microsoft/Sony etc give you in the standard package? Should you pay more to get a model with a better spec?  Does it make more sense for you to pick up a screwdriver and …

Famous for giving high end overclockers some of the fastest memory of all time, G.Skill used Computex 2014 to add some exciting new products to its line-up. KitGuru was on hand to capture the pixels. Arguably one if the most dramatic stands in the Nangang Exhibition Halls belonged to G.Skill. …

The consolidation on the market of solid-state drives is in full swing right now. Just recently Seagate agreed to acquire LSI SandForce and LSI Nytro divisions from Avago, whereas yesterday SanDisk announced its takeover of Fusion-io. It is not surprising that large makers of SSDs and NAND flash memory are …

KitGuru focuses primarily on PC oriented hardware reviews – but that doesn't mean from time to time we won't find something genuinely interesting enough for our readers in other hardware related areas. With this in mind we were recently offered a look at the Seagate 1TB SSHD drive, a hybrid …

SanDisk on Monday said that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Fusion-io, a leading maker of high-performance solid-state drives for enterprise and hyperscale datacenters. The takeover will help SanDisk to enter a new market and gain numerous technologies as well as new intellectual property. “Fusion-io will accelerate our …

At present there are loads of various digital devices around, since every single one of them can fail, the chances to lose  precious data are pretty high in general. However, according to a recent global survey by Kroll Ontrack, the leading provider of data recovery and discovery products and services, …

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Kingston Technology this week started to ship its first solid-state drives in the M.2 2280 form-factor. Such SSDs will soon become popular as the latest platforms based on Intel’s 9-series chipsets support the M.2 SSDs with the PCI Express 2.0 x2 interface and up to 1GB/s of bandwidth. Unfortunately, the …

Modern solid-state drives often feature so high performance that even contemporary interfaces like the M.2 or the SATA Express (based on the PCI Express 2.0) cannot provide enough bandwidth for them. But Asustek Computer seems to have found a solution. At the Computex 2014 trade-show the company unveiled a special …

SanDisk Corp. on Tuesday introduced its new Extreme Pro family of solid-state drives designed for gamers, PC enthusiasts and media professionals. The new drives offer unbeatable performance on par with other high-end SSDs as well as a 10-year warranty, an unprecedented thing for consumer-class solid-state drives. SanDisk Extreme Pro SSDs …

Western Digital on Tuesday demonstrated the industry’s first solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) with the SATA Express interface (SATAe) at the Computex trade-show in Taipei, Taiwan. The new drives are not going to show up on the market for some time, but it looks like WD is ready to adopt the …

Plextor’s latest M6-series solid-state drives (SSDs) offer respectable performance as well as stability and reliability that the company is known for. But Plextor does not stand still and is constantly working on new things that will further improve its products. At the Computex 2014 trade-show next week Plextor plans to …

SK Hynix and Violin Memory this week entered into a definitive agreement to sell the latter’s PCI Express (PCIe) solid-state storage product line to the former. In addition, the two companies decided to sign a cross-license agreement. As a result of the transaction, SK Hynix will be able to further …

Samsung Electronics on Thursday said it had begun mass production of its second-generation three-dimensional (3D) V-NAND flash memory. The new memory is projected to be more cost-efficient that the previous-gen 3D V-NAND thanks to higher integration. The company also unveiled its new series of solid-state drives that are based on …

Seagate Technology was very late to the market of solid-state drives, however, the company seems to be getting serious about them now. On Thursday Seagate announced a plan to acquire the assets of LSI’s accelerated solutions division (ASD) and flash components division (FCD) from Avago for $450 million (£269.1 million, …

Marvell, a leading designer of controllers for solid-state drives, on Wednesday introduced its latest Marvell 88SS1074 SATA SSD chip that is expected to power affordable SSDs next year. The controller supports virtually all types of NAND flash memory, including the latest-generation triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash made using 15nm fabrication …

Corsair this week reduced pricing of its last year’s Force LX family of solid-state drives. The new prices make the SSDs considerably more affordable, which is a good news for those, who want to get a high-performance SSD at a relatively low price. The Corsair LX series of solid-state drives …

Marvell, one of the world’s leading developers of SSD controllers, on Wednesday unveiled the industry’s first controller for solid-state drives that officially supports SATA Express interconnection technology. The Marvell 88SS1083 controller supports PCI Express 2.0 x2 as well as SATA Express interconnection and thus can power solid-state drives with up …

Crucial, a division of Micron Technology, plans to introduce the world’s first solid-state drive based on Micron’s NAND flash memory made using 16nm process technology early next month. The new SSD will reportedly be showcased at Computex Taipei 2014 trade-show. The fresh drives promise to be significantly less expensive than …

Perhaps, the first-generation SATA Express (SATAe) implementation that relies on the PCI Express 2.0 technology is not truly revolutionary and does not bring a dramatic performance boost compared to Serial ATA-6Gb/s. Nonetheless, SATAe is a part of the future, which is why companies like AMD need to support it in …

Toshiba Corp. on Wednesday said it would demolish one of its fabs in Yokkaichi, the company's NAND Flash memory manufacturing complex in Mie prefecture, Japan, and build an all new factory specially to produce 3D NAND flash. The new fab is expected to be complete next Summer and will go …

SanDisk Corp. on Tuesday announced its first family of solid-state drives that support all the certified encryption technologies. The new drives are designed for corporate laptops, so expect to see them in the upcoming Lenovo ThinkPads and HP EliteBooks. The drives will be made in 2.5”/7mm and M.2 versions. The …

Intel's 9-series chipset has launched and one of the most interesting features that it delivers is native support for M.2 SSDs. Devices using the M.2 (formerly NGFF) connector can differ in their connection to the chipset. Two common approaches used today are the M.2 PCIe variant, which uses PCIe connections, …

HGST, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western Digital Corp., said this week that it would demonstrate a new open Ethernet drive architecture offering new flexibility and capabilities for developers and operators of OpenStack cloud software. The completely new storage hardware architecture will allow to expand datacenters easier than today. The open …

Many modern storage sub-systems – both client and server – use solid-state drives to store frequently accessed data and programs and hard disk drives to keep large amounts of data that require a lot of storage space, but is not used often. Basically, storage sub-systems enjoy the best of both …

SanDisk Corp. on Wednesday unveiled a new breed of high-performance solid-state drives for enterprise-class systems. The drives boast up to 1GB/s read speed, Serial Attached SCSI interface with 12Gb/s maximum bandwidth and increased endurance thanks to SLC NAND memory and SanDisk's proprietary technologies.. SanDisk Lightning II family of solid-state drives …

SanDisk Corp. on Wednesday announced a new solid-state drive designed for enterprises that could change the way storage systems are built today. The new Optimus Max SSD boasts 4TB capacity, high reliability as well as leading-edge performance, the qualities that are crucial for large data-centers. Nowadays data-centers use multi-tier storage …

It has been three years since we looked at the OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 480GB – at the time it was the fastest SSD that the desktop audience could buy. As it connected via the PCI Express interface it wasn't a victim of the SATA bottleneck, which is still a …

Samsung Electronics on Monday said that it had begun mass production of the world’s first enterprise-class solid-state drive based on triple-level-cell NAND flash memory. The new SSDs combine affordable TLC NAND with enterprise-grade performance and reliability for the first time. The number of erase/write cycles a TLC NAND flash cell …