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QNAP Launches Intel Xeon Quad-Core Powered TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP Series NAS
QNAP announced a new series of NAS devices for businesses that need nothing but the best, the new TVS-ECx80-SAS-RP series. The new NAS units are built around an Intel Xeon E3-1246 v3 quad core 3.5 GHz processor and come with either 16GB DDR3 RAM or 8GB DDR3 ECC RAM. A…
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SilverStone Announces ECM20 Dual M.2 PCIe Card
SilverStone released a new PCIe add-in card that brings a duality of M.2 support to your system, the ECM20. It can connect a PCIe based M.2 SSD via the PCIe x4 connector and at the same time it can connect a SATA based M.2 via the 6Gbps SATA connector on…
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Silicon Motions Presents New NVMe and SATA Turnkey Controllers
This has surely been an exciting year in storage with a lot of new breakthroughs being made available for the consumers and enterprises alike. We’ve seen a rise in triple-cell and 3D NAND that in short makes larger capacity SSDs more affordable, some amazing M.2 and PCIe SATA SSDs, mechanical…
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SanDisk Flash Drives and SSDs at Computex 2015
Computex 2015 – SanDisk also brought along all their other storage devices such as the impressive 128GB Ultra Fit USB 3.0 drive. This is the world’s smallest high-capacity USB 3.0 drive and it can hold up to 16 hours of Full HD video while not being much bigger than the…
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SanDisk Showcase Industry’s First 2TB SATA and Portable SSDs at Computex 2015
Computex 2015 – The highlight for me at the SanDisk booth were the new, and Industries first, 2TB SATA SSD. The CloudSpeed Evo Gen II is optimized for cloud data services, video streaming, social media analytics and content repository. The CloudSpeed ECO II is intended for data centres, but there…
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Plextor Presents New Entry Level SSD at Computex 2015
Computex 2015 – It has been a while since we’ve had any new drives come from Plextor and that might be because they’ve been busy, not just by getting them ready but also to make the best product possible. The first new drive presented is the Plextor M6V, a new…
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OCZ Shows off Their Storage Drives at Computex 2015
Computex 2015 – A company like OCZ can’t be missed and we did of course stop by their booth to check out the latest storage drives out of their house. The Trion 100 series is a new and value oriented series for entry-level users, but that doesn’t mean that you…
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Addonics Announced M2 Hybrid Controller and M2 SSD Adapter
Addonics is one of those companies that creates gadgets and tools that you didn’t know you need until you see them, then you don’t know how you ever lived without. They have just released two new PCIe x4 controllers for M.2 PCIe and SATA drives, allowing you to utilize your…
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MSI to Introduce a M.2 to Turbo Mini-SAS Connector Add-in Card
News has just come down from MSI HQ that they are going to make available mini-SATA add-in cards for M.2 slots. The reasoning behind this is for current and new users of MSI motherboards can fully utilise the new high-speed SSD’s such as Intel’s 750. In recent global reviews and…
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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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Trouble and Confusion with Intel’s X99 Chipset and SATA Ports
There has been a lot of confusion the past couple of weeks where it first was thought that Intel had pulled back the latest RSTe drivers, but in fact the were just listed wrong as they’re not working or intended to work with the X99 chipsets. There was also the false…
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Kingston SSDnow M2 SATA 120GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Kingston has a long line of storage options for about every usage you could have. Today I’m taking a look at the SSDnow M.2 SATA Solid State Drive with a capacity of 120GB. The M.2 modules are also known as the Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF) and these thin…
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SMART Modular Announces M.2 SATA with SafeDATA
SMART Modular Technologies announced its new M.2 SATA XR+ product family equipped with SafeDATA power loss protection technology. These new SATA3 solid state drives (SSDs) are optimized specifically for high-reliability in networking, telecom and industrial applications and will be available in sizes from 32GB to 512GB. The standard sized 2280…
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New Controller Allows for 5TB Solid State Drives
A common problem with current SSDs, or rather nuisance, is their limitation of 1TB storage. Sage Microelectronics has developed a new controller chip that will allow for drives with up to 5TB capacity. According to the company, the chips are already shipping in volumes so new products with this chip might…
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Plextor M6S 256GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Our look over Plextor’s M6- SSD product line has seen us look at their M6e PCIe based M.2 drive, where the limitations of the SATA interface are no match for top end performance and more recently the M6M, a mSATA drive that packs the same components but in a…
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