Storage News - Page 41

All the latest storage news, with everything related to solid-state drives, hard drives & plenty more - Page 41.

Follow TweakTown on Google News

Seagate releases first consumer SSD since 2013 - BarraCuda

Chris Ramseyer | Jul 4, 2018 9:33 AM CDT

Seagate released its first consumer SSD since 2013 today with a blog post and exclusive Amazon campaign. The new drive carries familiar BarraCuda branding and comes in 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB sizes initially. The blog post from Seagate's Marketing and Public Relations Manager, John Paulsen, indicates a 2TB option is on the horizon.

Seagate releases first consumer SSD since 2013 - BarraCuda

As a global leader in storage solutions for nearly four decades, Seagate understands that read and write speeds play a huge role in the overall performance of your computer. That's why BarraCuda SSD provides maximum sequential read and write speeds, reaching 540/520 MB/s.

It starts up in seconds, allowing you to almost instantly access data, load game levels, open applications, and transfer files. You and your computer will be good to go - fast. It's our fastest option for upgrading a PC or a laptop to optimize performance.

Continue reading: Seagate releases first consumer SSD since 2013 - BarraCuda (full post)

ADATA's new SR2000CP SSD: reads 6GB/sec, writes at 3.8GB/sec

Anthony Garreffa | Jul 1, 2018 6:34 PM CDT

ADATA has just revealed its latest SR2000CP, a new enterprise SSD that has storage speeds that will blow your mind, and it's all coming out of a PCIe 3.0 x8 slot.

ADATA's new SR2000CP SSD: reads 6GB/sec, writes at 3.8GB/sec

The new ADATA SR2000CP is available in 2TB, 3.5TB, 4TB, 8TB, and even 11TB capacities that all feature 3D "eTLC" NAND flash that has 3 bits per cell, with endurance cycles that are similar to MLC NAND flash. But it's the read and write speeds of the new ADATA SR2000CP that'll blow your mind.

ADATA has tested the 4TB version of the new SR2000CP which had sequential read speeds of up to 6GB/sec and writes of 3.8GB/sec. The company is also providing enterprise-friendly features like user-configurable over-provisioning, power loss protection that keeps your data safe, native 256-bit AES encryption, and 55C ambient temperature operation that is perfect for the specs Google define for their datacenters.

Continue reading: ADATA's new SR2000CP SSD: reads 6GB/sec, writes at 3.8GB/sec (full post)

Samsung teases 8TB NF1 NVMe SSD: PCIe 4.0 with 3GB/sec reads

Anthony Garreffa | Jun 22, 2018 12:33 AM CDT

Samsung has just announced its latest 8TB NVMe SSD, something the company has pushed into the next-generation NF1 form factor that will be sold in datacenters, and enterprise servers.

Samsung teases 8TB NF1 NVMe SSD: PCIe 4.0 with 3GB/sec reads

The new Samsung 8TB NF1 SSDs are both NVMe 1.3 and PCIe 4.0 compliant making them, if I want to say them out loud, future-proof. There, I did it. The new drives are using the latest in flash technology that Samsung makes itself, with a single NF1 stick sporting 16 V-NAND dies to drive the capacity up to 8TB.

Get this: the new NF1 form factor packs twice the density of an M.2 drive, blowing away current-gen NVMe M.2 drives in capacity. This is all thanks to the next-gen NG1, or NGSFF (Next-Generation Small Form Factor). Samsung's new high-performance SSD controller sees speeds reaching up to 3100MB/sec reads, and 2000MB/sec writes with up to 500,000 IOPs and 50,000 IOPs read/write. Hell, there's even 12GB of LPDDR4 as cache on the new NG1 drive.

Continue reading: Samsung teases 8TB NF1 NVMe SSD: PCIe 4.0 with 3GB/sec reads (full post)

Intel and Micron reveal industry's first QLC NAND flash

Anthony Garreffa | May 22, 2018 8:53 PM CDT

Intel and Micron continue their relationship over flash technology, with the two companies announcing the production and shipment of the industry's first step into 4-bits-per-cell 3D NAND flash, AKA as QLC (quad-level cell).

Intel and Micron reveal industry's first QLC NAND flash

QLC is even denser than triple-level cell (TLC) NAAND flash memory, which means we can expect even larger, faster SSDs in the near future. Micron Executive Vice President, Technology Development, Scott DeBoer explains: "With the introduction of 64-layer 4bits/cell NAND technology, we are achieving 33 percent higher array density compared to TLC, which enables us to produce the first commercially available 1 terabit die in the history of semiconductors".

Micron is the first with a QLC-based SSD with their new 5120 ION SSD that is for the enterprise market, where we'll first see higher capacities before faster QLC-based SSDs arrive. Micron said that their new ION SSD range will be available in massive 1.92TB through to 7.68TB later this year, pretty damn incredible.

Continue reading: Intel and Micron reveal industry's first QLC NAND flash (full post)

GIGABYTE enters SSD market with UD PRO with 256GB/512GB SSDs

Anthony Garreffa | May 12, 2018 7:32 PM CDT

GIGABYTE is slowly expanding into new markets with their latest venture being the storage industry with the announcement of their new UD PRO Series SSDs.

GIGABYTE enters SSD market with UD PRO with 256GB/512GB SSDs

GIGABYTE's new UD PRO Series SSDs come in both 256GB and 512GB, with GIGABYTE keeping the Ultra Durable (hence 'UD') branding for these new drives. They're only 2.5-inch SATA 6Gbps standard, so we're looking at up to 530MB/sec reads while writes are 500MB/sec.

The company is offering a 3-year warranty on the drive with a sleek black look that won't stand out too much, thankfully there aren't any RGB LEDs on it... yet.

Continue reading: GIGABYTE enters SSD market with UD PRO with 256GB/512GB SSDs (full post)

Western Digital's new external SSD: 16TB, 2.8GB/sec, $7599

Rob Squires | Apr 9, 2018 11:40 PM CDT

NAB 2018 - The demand for high speed external storage has been growing exponentially and Western Digital is stepping up to the plate with three new professional grade products to enable real-time 4K and 8K workflows.

Western Digital's new external SSD: 16TB, 2.8GB/sec, $7599

The new products are part of their G-Technology G-DRIVE and G-SPEED Shuttle product families.

All three products utilize the power of Thunderbolt 3, have transfer rates up to 2800MB/s, and make use of Western Digital's new G-Technology Pro SSDs to offer an ultra-fast, reliable solution. All three products will ship with a 5-year limited warranty.

Continue reading: Western Digital's new external SSD: 16TB, 2.8GB/sec, $7599 (full post)

WD's new Black 3D NVMe SSDs are the best you can get

Rob Squires | Apr 5, 2018 8:01 AM CDT

Today Western Digital announced their latest addition to their SSD line, the Western Digital Black 3D NVMe. Western Digital's new vertically integrated SSD platform has been engineered from the ground up, and specifically architected to help maximize performance for NVMe SSDs.

WD's new Black 3D NVMe SSDs are the best you can get

Advanced power management, durability and endurance for the growing range of applications benefiting from NVMe technology were engineered into the drives by design.

The series of M.2 drives feature a new Western Digital designed SSD NVMe architecture and controller, which optimally integrates with Western Digital 3D NAND. This new breed of SSDs were designed to help remove the traditional storage bottleneck. The drives are set to feature up to a sequential read (up to 3,400 MB/s for 1TB and 500GB model) and write performance (up to 2,800MB/s for 1TB model) combined with up to 1TB.

Continue reading: WD's new Black 3D NVMe SSDs are the best you can get (full post)

Nimbus Data launches 100TB SSD, servers house 100PB easily

Anthony Garreffa | Mar 20, 2018 12:11 AM CDT

Nimbus Data has just announced the world's largest SSD that completely trumps the recent 30TB SSD from Samsung, with their new ExaDrive SSD that packs an insane 100TB.

Nimbus Data launches 100TB SSD, servers house 100PB easily

The new ExaDrive 100TB SSD was made for data centers and edge servers for IoT services, with the 100TB of storage holding up to 20 million songs - or as TheNextWeb frames it "about half of Spotify's catalog of streaming music". Insanity.

Nimbus Data made the drive to consume 85% less power per TB of storage, so that enterprise users can use many more of them, use less power, and less physical space in their server racks. A standard rack with these new ExaDrive 100TB SSDs will hold an insane 100PB of storage, that's 1000TB folks.

Continue reading: Nimbus Data launches 100TB SSD, servers house 100PB easily (full post)

WD's new NVMe SSDs push 3.4GB/sec read and 2.8GB/sec write

Anthony Garreffa | Feb 27, 2018 8:43 PM CST

Western Digital has just announced two new SSDs in the form of the PC SN720 and PC SN520 with both of them NVMe-based SSDs with some impressive speeds.

WD's new NVMe SSDs push 3.4GB/sec read and 2.8GB/sec write

WD's new SSDs are being aimed at the IoT, edge computing and mobile computing markets. Also think small and thin laptops, 2-in-1s, and embedded PCs for this new range of NVMe SSDs.

Senior Director of Client SSD, Devices Business Unit, Western Digital, Eyal Bek, explains: "With this new vertically integrated SSD platform, we are able to optimize the architecture to our NAND for low latency and power efficiency, and most important, for the growing range of applications benefiting from NVMe, the scalable architecture supports a range of capacity and performance points, while streamlining system qualification to improve time-to-market for our customers".

Continue reading: WD's new NVMe SSDs push 3.4GB/sec read and 2.8GB/sec write (full post)

Samsung unveils massive 30TB SSD, largest capacity SSD ever

Anthony Garreffa | Feb 20, 2018 8:04 PM CST

Samsung has just announced its next generation SSD, something it's calling the PM1643, and it has propelled the South Korean giant to new storage records with up to 30TB on tap.

Samsung unveils massive 30TB SSD, largest capacity SSD ever

Samsung's new PM1643 boasts a huge 30.72TB of SSD storage, with the company pushing the new SSD for next-generation storage systems for the government, health and education markets, and others. The new 30TB SSD has enough space to hold thousands of movies and countless files.

The new 30TB SSD is twice the capacity of Samsung's current 15.36TB SSD that it unveiled in 2016 which boasted speeds of 2100MB/sec for reads and 1700MB/sec writes. Samsung combined layers of flash memory into "super-sense" 1TB packages in order to double the SSD storage beast to 30TB.

Continue reading: Samsung unveils massive 30TB SSD, largest capacity SSD ever (full post)