SSDs
When Western Digital introduced its Ultrastar DC SN861 SSDs earlier this year, the company did not disclose which controller it used for these drives, which made many observers presume that WD was using an in-house controller. But a recent teardown of the drive shows that is not the case; instead, the company is using a controller from Fadu, a South Korean company founded in 2015 that specializes on enterprise-grade turnkey SSD solutions. The Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN861 SSD is aimed at performance-hungry hyperscale datacenters and enterprise customers which are adopting PCIe Gen5 storage devices these days. And, as uncovered in photos from a recent Storage Review article, the drive is based on Fadu's FC5161 NVMe 2.0-compliant controller. The FC5161 utilizes 16 NAND channels supporting...
Intel Launches 3D NAND SSDs For Client And Enterprise
Today Intel is announcing a variety of new SSDs with their 3D NAND flash memory. The new models use a mix of 3D MLC and 3D TLC, some SATA...
49 by Billy Tallis on 8/25/2016
Micron Cancels Ballistix TX3 NVMe SSD
At Computex in June, Micron announced that Crucial's Ballistix brand was being promoted to a standalone brand for gaming-oriented products. Their exhibit included three tiers of Ballistix DRAM products...
7 by Billy Tallis on 8/18/2016
Marvell Announces NVMe Controller for DRAM-Less PCIe 3.0 x2 SSDs
Marvell has announced its new controller for affordable and miniature SSDs, the 88NV1160. The chip can be used to build small form-factor SSDs in M.2 as well as BGA...
25 by Anton Shilov on 8/17/2016
Intel Optane And 3D XPoint Updates From IDF
At Intel Developer Forum this week in San Francisco, Intel is sharing a few more details about its plans for their Optane SSDs using 3D XPoint memory. The next milestone...
36 by Billy Tallis on 8/16/2016
Toshiba Begins to Sample eMLC-Based ZD6300 7.68 TB SSDs to Customers
Toshiba has quietly expanded its ZD6300 family of SSDs with a 7.68 TB model, its most capacious storage device announced to date. The new drive was designed for mixed...
30 by Anton Shilov on 8/12/2016
Western Digital to Use 3D ReRAM as Storage Class Memory for Special-Purpose SSDs
At the Flash Memory Summit this week, Western Digital announced that it intends to use 3D Resistive RAM (ReRAM) as storage class memory (SCM) for its future special-purpose ultra-fast...
38 by Anton Shilov on 8/12/2016
Maxiotek Unveils MK8115: Low-Cost SSD Controller for 3D NAND SATA SSDs
Maxiotek this week introduced its first SSD controller designed for affordable SSDs with an SATA interface, which is meant to be paired with new types of NAND flash memory...
6 by Anton Shilov on 8/11/2016
Samsung at Flash Memory Summit: 64-layer V-NAND, Bigger SSDs, Z-SSD
At Flash Memory Summit, Samsung announced their fourth generation of 3D NAND and several of the more obvious SSD upgrades it enables. Taking a page from Intel and Micron's...
51 by Billy Tallis on 8/11/2016
Micron Announces QuantX Branding For 3D XPoint Memory (UPDATED)
In a keynote speech later this morning at Flash Memory Summit, Micron will be unveiling the branding and logo that their products based on 3D XPoint memory will be...
52 by Billy Tallis on 8/9/2016
Seagate Introduces 10GB/s PCIe SSD And 60TB SAS SSD
Seagate is looking to break records with two enterprise SSDs they're showing off at Flash Memory Summit this week. The first drive is one that's been seen before: the...
38 by Billy Tallis on 8/9/2016
Netac Z5 USB 3.1 Gen 2 Portable SSD Review
The last few years have seen rapid advancements in flash technology including planar 1x nm NAND, TLC, and 3D V-NAND. External high-speed interfaces such as USB 3.x have also...
22 by Ganesh T S on 8/9/2016
Seagate Re-Enters Enterprise SATA SSD Market with Nytro XF1230
It's hard for any new SATA SSD to be big news. Aside from instances where new NAND flash enables higher capacities or a big price drop, almost everything we...
13 by Billy Tallis on 8/4/2016
Toshiba Announces New BGA SSDs Using 3D TLC NAND
Toshiba has announced a new generation of BG series single-chip SSDs, with a newer controller and expanded capacity options thanks to the adoption of 3D NAND. The BG series...
14 by Billy Tallis on 8/3/2016
Crucial Expands MX300 SSD Lineup with Additional Capacities: Up to 1TB
Crucial this week made two announcements. Its MX300 family of 3D NAND-based consumer-grade SSDs has been expanded with additional models, and also Crucial revealed plans to start sales of...
11 by Anton Shilov on 8/2/2016
Samsung’s PM1633a Now Available: $10k for 15 TB, $6k for 7 TB
Samsung started to ship its PM1633a SSD with 15.36 TB capacity to select customers in March and recently it began to supply the drive to select resellers as well...
42 by Anton Shilov on 7/29/2016
Seagate Expands Nytro Enterprise SSD Family with 2TB M.2 XM1440
As Flash Memory Summit 2016 approaches, many major players in the SSD market are starting to announce new products. A year after introducing the Nytro XM1440 enterprise M.2 PCIe...
9 by Billy Tallis on 7/26/2016
Updated: AMD Announces Radeon Pro SSG: Fiji With M.2 SSDs On-Board
As part of this evening’s AMD Capsaicin event (more on that later), AMD’s Chief Architect and SVP of the Radeon Technologies Group has announced a new Radeon Pro card...
120 by Ryan Smith on 7/25/2016
Samsung’s SSD 850 EVO 4 TB Now Available from Major Retailers
Samsung quietly added its 4 TB 850 EVO SSD model to the product to the lineup back in May (according to its own datasheet) without making any formal announcements...
29 by Anton Shilov on 7/22/2016
Super Talent Launches their PCIe Nova U.2 SSDs, up to 2 TB and 3 GB/s
The march to U.2 adoption is slow but coming - it is already more successful than SATA Express ever was. Consumer motherboards are now coming equipped with slots, and...
16 by Anton Shilov on 7/21/2016
The Samsung 850 EVO 4TB SSD Review
The arrival of Samsung's 256Gb 48-layer 3D NAND has allowed the 850 EVO product line to expand once more with the introduction of the first 4TB consumer SSD: a...
145 by Billy Tallis on 7/11/2016
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