Adata Launches SX950 3D MLC SSD
While the bleeding edge of the market is pushed by NVMe SSDs, SATA drives still continue to be the main entry point to flash storage. Even though it may have lost the ...
February 16, 2017 at 1:13 pm by Samuel WanSSD
Intel Optane DC P4800X 3D XPoint SSD Leaked
Since the early days of SSDs, the storage medium has always been NAND flash memory in its various forms. One of the movements away from this medium has been Intel and ...
February 11, 2017 at 9:17 am by Samuel Wan
WD SanDisk Introduces Skyhawk NVMe SSD
Western Digital has been pushing their NAND business a lot since they acquired SanDisk which is pretty much a given. Else they wouldn’t have invested in them. All their ...
February 8, 2017 at 2:30 am by Bohs Hansen
WD Reveals World’s First 512Gb 64-layer 3D NAND
Western Digital has started production of the world’s first 64-layer 3D NAND flash chips, developed in partnership with Toshiba. WD and Toshiba – which recently announced ...
February 7, 2017 at 8:54 am by Ashley Allen
Silicon Power S57 240GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction I recently had a closer look at Silicon Power’s S56 SSD, and today it is time to take a look at its brother, the S57. The two drives are similar in many ...
February 2, 2017 at 1:00 pm by Bohs Hansen
Mushkin Announces Helix 3D MLC NAND M.2 SSD
Over the past couple of years, the SSD market has started to move away from the SATA connector. One of the more popular connectors is the M.2 which uses PCIe lanes for ...
February 1, 2017 at 11:00 am by Samuel Wan
Toshiba Confirms Selling Minority Stake in NAND Fab
Earlier in the month, reports surfaced about a potential Toshiba NAND fab sale. Due to poor financial performance and rocked by scandals, the Japanese conglomerate is in need ...
January 28, 2017 at 10:00 am by Samuel Wan
Seagate to Release 16TB Hard Drive within 18 Months
Seagate has revealed that it will be releasing a 16TB hard drive within the next eighteen months, bringing it closer to its goal of producing 20TB drives by 2020. During a Q2 ...
January 27, 2017 at 5:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Silicon Power S56 240GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction The Silicon Power S56 is a whole new drive series that comes with a fresh design on the outside and great hardware on the inside. The S56 is categorised as an ...
January 27, 2017 at 8:30 am by Bohs Hansen
Lite-On Expects NAND Shortage to Hurt SSD Sales
Over the past while, more warning signs have popped up about the impending NAND flash memory shortage. Samsung has delayed the 850 Pro 4 TB and many others in the ...
January 25, 2017 at 10:00 am by Samuel Wan
Chinese Tsinghua Unigroup Plans $30 Billion DRAM and NAND Fab Investment
From a quick look at the world’s semiconductor fabs, you might notice that they are all either American, Taiwanese, Japanese or Korean. As a rising consumer of ...
January 24, 2017 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Samsung Delays 850 Pro 4 TB Due to NAND Shortages
Last year, we first brought you word of an impending NAND shortage. The results of the low supply have finally officially manifested themselves in the market. ...
January 21, 2017 at 11:00 am by Samuel Wan
Toshiba Considers Spinning Off NAND Business
The past year has been rough for Japanese conglomerate Toshiba. Coming off one of the biggest accounting scandals ever, the company is set as much as a $4 billion loss over ...
January 20, 2017 at 10:00 am by Samuel Wan
Mushkin Launches Reactor Armor 3D and Triactor 3D SSDs
From the very first SSDs, planar NAND has always been used. In recent years, the transition to 3D or vertical NAND has been underway. Samsung was the first to jump in with ...
January 17, 2017 at 11:45 am by Samuel Wan
Kingston Display World’s Highest Capacity USB Drive at CES 2017
Kingston are the masters for mobile storage, and they’re set to keep onto their crown with the reveal of the DataTraveler Ultimate GT, which comes in 1TB format, the ...
January 6, 2017 at 8:00 am by Peter Donnell
