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New SD Express Standard Promises Up to 985MB/s Speeds
Revolutionizing the SD Card Standard The SD Association, a group responsible for setting SD memory card standards, is announcing the SD Express SDUC standard. This not only brings significantly faster transfer rates to the popular memory card standard, but higher capacity as well. Specifically, users can expect these SDUC cards…
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Biostar Announces M500 M.2 PCI-Express NVMe SSD
Faster Storage from Biostar Biostar is announcing their new M500 series SSDs using an M.2 form factor. This stick-of-gum size storage may be compact, but it is also quite faster than typical 2.5″ SATA drives. That is because it leverages PCI-Express and NVMe standards, instead of the aging AHCI and…
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Initial Reported PCI-Express 4.0 Power Capabilities Sadly Wrong
A few days ago we reported about the upcoming PCI-Express 4.0 capabilities that promised double the bandwidth of PCI-Express 3.0, but what most people got excited about was the reported power capabilities of this new bus generation. The initial reports suggested that cards would be able to draw up to 300…
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Intel Announces New 3D NAND SSD Lineup
Intel has had a set of super-fast high-speed SSDs based on the cutting edge 3D NAND flash storage chips in the works for some time now, with the first of these drives having been announced on Thursday. This lineup of SSDs combine both amazing speed and capacities of up to…
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ASRock Announces the X99M-Killer USB 3.1 Socket LGA2011v3 Motherboard
ASRock has just announced its latest socket LGA2011v3 motherboard addition, the X99M-Killer USB 3.1, tailored specifically for Intel’s Core i7 Haswell-E processors. It comes in a micro-ATX form factor, featuring two 10 Gb/s USB 3.1 ports and a nice feature set. The motherboard is said to have a 24-pin ATX,…
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MSI Rolls out the MS-98G5 IPC Featuring an Embedded Broadwell Processor
MSI has just launched its MS-98G5 industrial motherboard with an embedded processing and graphics solution. The motherboard is based on the mini-ITX form factor and Intel 4th Gen QM87/HM86 architecture that comes with a BGA-type Haswell/Broadwell Mobile Core i7, i5, i3 or Celeron CPU, various displays, 1 PCIe x16, 8…
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ASRock Rolls out the 970M Pro3 Micro-ATX AM3+ Motherboard
ASRock has announced one of the very few AMD 9-series chipset based socket AM3+ motherboards in the micro-ATX form-factor, the 970M Pro3. The motherboard is said to be based on the AMD 970 chip and supports the AMD FX processors with TDP of up to 125W, meaning it excludes support…
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Gigabyte Rolls out the 990XA-UD3 R5 Socket AM3+ Motherboard
Gigabyte has announced that it has recently added a new socket AM3+ motherboard to its lineup. The motherboard is set to support all AMD AM3+ FX processors and AM3 Athlon/Phenom II CPUs, while also supporting 2-way SLI or Crossfire. The company has based the motherboard on the AMD 990X chipset,…
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WD Is Preparing World Fastest 4TB Hybrid Drive
Las Vegas is a busy place this time of year with the CES event. But there also are a lot of smaller events in the city surrounding CES and one of them is the Storage Visions Conference. Western Digital is presenting their new 4TB Hybrid Drive that utilises the SATA Express…
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Possible Plextor M6e Black Edition PCI-Express SSD Spotted
Companies are busy updating their sites to be ready for CES and enthusiasts are just as busy scouting those pages for possible hints on future products. So were our friends from TweakTown and they found what could hint a new PCI-Express based SSD from Plextor. Digging on Plextor’s homepage, they…
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Memblaze and PMC Partner to Provide High-Performance PCIe SSDs up to 8TB
When two giants come together to form something new, you just know it’s going to be amazing. Memblaze will be using PMC’s Flashtec NVM Express controllers in its next-generation PCI Express flash accelerators. The Flashtec-based Memblaze PBlaze4 products might be targeted at hyperscaling and Open Compute Project deployments, but I’d…
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Supermicro SoC Motherboard with 17 SATA Ports Spotted
A small new motherboard from Supermicro has been spotted on the shop-shelves, the Supermicro A1SA7-2750F. This tiny board is feature packed with a total of 17 SATA3 6GB/s ports and is a totally passive cooled System on a Chip (SoC) supporting up to 64GB memory. Sparked your interest? Here are the…
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HGST Sets New World Record with 3 Million IOPS SSD
HGST has announced a new PCI Express SSD with 3 million IOPS in queued environments and a random read access latency of 1.5 ms in non-queued settings. HGST demonstrated this new technology at the Flash Memory Summit 2014. “The PCM SSD demonstration is a great example for how HGST sets the pace…
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Intel Announces Its Enterprise PCIe 2TB SSD Line Featuring 2800 MB/s Read Speeds
A new enterprise SSD line has been announced by Intel, using PCIe and NVM Express (or NVMe) in favour of the traditional SATA in order to gain significant performance boost. The Intel SSD Data Center lineup contains three of the company’s series, the Intel SSD DC P3700 dedicated to write-intensive…
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Xonar D-KARAX Sound Card Released by ASUS
ASUS has released the Xonar D-KARAX Sound Card. It is based on PCI-Express interface and offers 96KHz/24-bit playback, real-time audio processing, 7.1 audio and a 106dB SNR. You can also apply and hear audio effects in real-time with no playback lag, a sophisticated feature previously used only by professional recording…
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