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Rounding out our Computex 2024 SSD controller news, let's talk about the final major controller vendor at the show: Silicon Motion. Silicon Motion has been somewhat late to the PCIe Gen5 SSD party, as its rival Phison has been offering their high-end PS5026-E26 controller for almost 18 months now. But as Silicon Motion gets ready to make the transition to PCIe 5.0, the company has a trump card up its sleeve: the SM2508 controller, an energy-efficient high-end SSD controller that is intended for lower-power drives. A PCIe Gen5 x4 controller, SMI's SM2508 boasts a very low active power consumption of 3.5W. Which, installed in an M.2 SSD, is intended to allow drive manufacturers to built 7 Watt (or lower) SSDs, according to the company. The...
MyDigitalSSD SMART & BP3 mSATA SSD Review
Every now and then we receive a request from a smaller SSD manufacturer to review their products. We rarely say no to such a request and we try to...
49 by Kristian Vättö on 1/22/2013
A Month with Apple's Fusion Drive
Apple has the luxury of not competing at lower price points for its Macs, which makes dropping hard drives an easier thing to accomplish. Even so, out of the...
127 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/18/2013
Fusion-io Launches ioScale for Hyperscale Market
We haven't even had time to cover everything we saw at CES last week, but there are already more product announcements coming in. Fusion-io launched their new ioScale product...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 1/17/2013Buffalo Technology Updates NAS and DAS Lineup at CES 2013
Brian already updated readers on the new products from Buffalo in the networking and Thunderbolt space. There were updates on the NAS front too. The primary announcement was the...
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ADATA Shows Off Enterprise SSDs, RAM, NAND, etc.
ADATA invited us to their suite to show us some of their latest and greatest offerings. Most of the items on display have been previously launched, but they did...
5 by Jarred Walton on 1/11/2013
Corsair Goes Big With Obsidian 900D; Updates Peripheral Lines
This CES, Corsair opted not to have a standard booth or suite. Instead they held a press event prior to CES proper, and unfortunately I wasn't able to attend...
5 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/10/2013
Synology at CES 2013: DSM 4.2 and the ioSafe N2
We met up with Synology at CES today, and the main focus was on the recently released Disk Station Manager 4.2 firmware. Different NAS vendors take different approaches to...
6 by Ganesh T S on 1/10/2013
Micron/Crucial Announces M500 SSD Line of SSDs
Micron/Crucial briefed us on their new M500 line of SSDs, which upgrades the controller to the Marvell 88SS9187-BLD2 along with moving to 20nm Micron MLC NAND. Along with the...
25 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2013
Mushkin's High Performance Ventura Ultra SF-2281 USB 3.0 Stick
All of the memory makers seem to have embraced the selling of flash memory devices--be they USB sticks, SSDs, SD flash for cameras, etc. Typically, USB sticks have settled...
10 by Jarred Walton on 1/9/2013
Mushkin Unveils Enterprise ProSpec SSD Line
Like many memory companies, Mushkin has also added a selection of flash memory and SSD products to their portfolio. Their current Chronos and Chronos Deluxe lines cater to the...
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HGST/G-Technology Touro, G|Drive, and G|RAID
We met with HGST at their hotel suite and were interested to hear their plans now that they’ve been acquired by WD. Western Digital bought HGST (who had previously...
0 by Jarred Walton on 1/9/2013
Plextor/LiteOn Enters the eMMC Market
This is an unusual move but one that makes a lot of sense. Plextor is currently qualifing its first eMMC solution built around a Marvell controller. These integrated eMMC...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/8/2013
Plextor's Dabbles in TLC NAND
Following in Samsung's footsteps, Plextor will be bringing a TLC version of its M5 series of SSDs to market towards the middle of the year. Despite the move to...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/8/2013
Plextor's M5M mSATA SSD
In addition to the 2.5" SATA M5 Pro Xtreme, Plextor is bringing an mSATA version of the drive to market in the first half of this year as the...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/8/2013
Hands On with Plextor's NGFF SSDs
The Next Generation Form Factor for SSDs is designed to bring standardization to the wild west of Ultrabook SSD form factors. We reported on the standard at IDF, but...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/8/2013
Plextor Introduces M5 Pro Xtreme SSD
Shipping at the end of this month is Plextor's new M5 Pro Extreme SSD, an update to the M5 Pro that we reviewed not too long ago. The M5...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/8/2013
LaCie 5big NAS Pro Review - Part I
We have looked at LaCie's 5big offering before in late 2010. In that product, the only LaCie signature was the industrial design and choice of hardware components of the...
31 by Ganesh T S on 1/7/2013
SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD Review (256GB)
SanDisk is a household name as far as NAND storage is concerned. You can’t walk into an electronics retailer and not be bombarded with SanDisk made CompactFlash and SD...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/7/2013
Marvell Adds NVDRIVE to DragonFly Family of Enterprise Storage Accelerators
Marvell's DragonFly virtual storage accelerators have been around for close to two years. Back in April 2011, StorageReview had some hands-on time with the DragonFly storage accelerator. In August...
5 by Ganesh T S on 1/3/2013
Corsair Neutron & Neutron GTX: All Capacities Tested
Corsair surprised us all at Computex this year when they announced their Neutron and Neutron GTX SSDs based on a so-far relatively unknown Link A Media Devices (LAMD) controller...
44 by Kristian Vättö on 12/19/2012
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