Seatgate Technology announced that its HDDs and SSDs that are designed to meet federal security standards would now be even more secure. Seagate’s secure drives will now be integrated with advanced encryption key management software and services from Fornetix, LLC. The newly integrated secure drives give the federal government more tools to help fend off […]
During its Q2 2017 earning call, Seagate disclosed that it already has 12TB HDDs in the field and 14TB and 16TB models in the design phase. This re-forces that Seagate is on the path toward its goal of producing 20TB HDDs by 2020. These type of drives are also used by video production houses in their […]
Patriot has announced the Hellfire 480GB M.2 PCIe NVMe drive. The drive uses Phison’s PS5007-E7 controller and 15nm MLC NAND from Toshiba, components familiar to anyone who spends a lot of time looking inside of SSDs and which can give a good estimate of the speeds to expect. With a sale price of about $230 it […]
Adata announced its new Ultimate SU900 SSD, which makes the notable change to Micron’s 3D MLC NAND and throws in an SLC buffer for better performance. Adata is the first major third-party SSD vendor with 3D MLC NAND, and also the first to use an SLC buffer on an MLC SSD. 3D NAND has finally […]
Corsair has announces a a new, high-performance entry to the Force Series dubbed MP500. The Force Series MP500 is Corsair’s first NVMe-protocol SSD. The company partnered with Phison to bring the high-performance product to market. This is just the latest in a line of recent products from Corsair to feature the Phison controller. The partnership […]
Seagate and Amazon have partnered up to offer a new USB external hard drive called the Seagate Duet that, while functioning as you would expect an external drive to, also automatically keeps files synced between itself and the user’s Amazon Drive cloud storage. The Duet is based on Seagate’s Backup Plus drive series and is […]
Western Digital (WD) held its investor day to cover its post-acquisition strategic maneuverings after its $19 billion SanDisk purchase. The storage world is quickly moving to flash for performance applications, such as PC desktops and notebooks, and in the data center, 15K HDDs are already under duress, and 10K HDDs aren’t far behind. However, flash […]
Adata’s Ultimate SU800 512GB SSD is in the middle , at $0.27/GB it is not exactly inexpensive nor does it take advantage of some of the SM2258 controllers advanced features, on the other hand it does use Micron’s 3D NAND, the same chips used in Crucial MX300, offer a dynamic SLC cache and is overprovisioned […]
Intel recently refreshed its enterprise SSD portfolio with a wide range of 3D TLC SSDs, and today it announced that it has rounded out its offerings with its first M.2 NVMe SSD. Intel’s new DC P3100 series certainly isn’t the first M.2 NVMe SSD to hit the market, but it marks a crucial step forward […]
The venerable 15K HDD is getting it last drink at bar, Seagate has introduced its sixth-generation Enterprise Performance 15K HDD v6, which will be the last mission-critical 15K HDD the company produces. Seagate representatives indicated that the company is not working on future generations of 15K HDDs due to the proliferation of SSDs in the […]
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