NVMe has been hailed as the next big storage protocol supplanting the aging ACHI that many SSDs still use. While NVMe is still slowly making its way into the consumer market, ...
April 13, 2016 at 11:00 am by Samuel Wan
Solid state drives have progressed at an extraordinary pace during the last few years and the latest NVMe products are capable of read speeds well beyond 2000MB/s. In ...
April 6, 2016 at 10:40 pm by John Williamson
Introduction Today we are taking a closer look at fast external storage, more specifically Lexar’s newest portable SSD called the D512. Lexar also offers the drive in a ...
April 3, 2016 at 5:00 pm by Bohs Hansen
Even though they are one of the Big 2 HDD manufacturers, Seagate has not neglected the growing importance of NAND and flash storage. Starting off with their Seagate 600 series ...
March 9, 2016 at 10:30 am by Samuel Wan
The first SSDs we had all used SLC or single level cell, holding 1 bit per cell. As SSDs grew more and more common and advanced, different tech like MLC (multi-level cell) ...
February 29, 2016 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Despite a major investor dropping out hard disk giant Western Digital(WD) is forging ahead with their plans to acquire fellow storage firm SanDisk. Originally announced 4 ...
February 24, 2016 at 8:18 am by Samuel Wan
After introducing their latest SSD two months ago in China and Japan, Samsung is bringing their latest drive to the rest of the world. Based off of the long-standing TLC ...
February 21, 2016 at 11:30 am by Samuel Wan
SSDs are most definitely on the rise, being the go-to source of faster boots and the best loading experience for software and games. Traditional disk-based hard drives have ...
February 9, 2016 at 12:22 pm by Alexander Neil
As SSDs become ever more mainstream, more and more mainstream companies are starting to jump into the market. So far, we’ve already seen AMD and Panasonic jump aboard ...
February 9, 2016 at 11:09 am by Samuel Wan
Even with the accounting scandal 6 months behind it, Toshiba is still finding its actions limited by the fallout. As a result of discovering that profits from many divisions ...
January 26, 2016 at 4:41 pm by Samuel Wan
Lexar released a bunch of new flash-based products and we naturally also want to update you on these. While HDDs are the go-to medium for NAS and SSDs for the PC systems, we ...
January 15, 2016 at 11:47 am by Bohs Hansen
19 Fixstars has unveiled the world’s first 13TB 2.5-inch solid state drive, more than doubling the capacity of the next largest SSD of 6TB. There is a catch, however, and ...
January 14, 2016 at 7:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Transcend revealed their SSD570 almost three months ago and now they’re ready with the full lineup surrounding the SSD570 SLC SSD and with most current form factors. ...
January 12, 2016 at 3:00 pm by Bohs Hansen
Here I sat thinking that I knew all the terms for the different NAND technologies and then Transcend comes along with a new one that they have called SuperMLC. SuperMLC was ...
December 30, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Bohs Hansen
Being one of the biggest DRAM and NAND manufacturers in the market, Micron have chugged along steadily, with the rise of smartphones and tablets helping offset the losses on ...
December 26, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
