Samsung thumps Intel in SSD battle
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Tuesday, 21 April 2015 10:38

Samsung thumps Intel in SSD battle


Catfight on SSDs makes Intel howl

Samsung ruled the global solid state drive (SSD) market last year with a market share double that of its main rival Intel.

New Samsung 840 EVO firmware fix coming later this month
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To feature "periodic refresh"

While Samsung already patched its 840 EVO firmware earlier last year, it appears that it took a bit longer to fix the read performance degradation problem, but the new fix should be available later this month.

Intel unleashes 750-series PCIe/NVMe SSD
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Friday, 03 April 2015 08:41

Intel unleashes 750-series PCIe/NVMe SSD


Leaves SATA drives in the dust

Intel has launched new 750-series solid state drives, based on PCIe and NVMe interfaces, enabling substantially higher performance than the company’s SATA SSDs. 

Phison to expand SSD range
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Thursday, 02 April 2015 11:55

Phison to expand SSD range


The River Phison swept me away....

NAND flash device controller supplier, which is not named after a biblical river, Phison Electronics is looking to expand its SSD operation in 2015.

Intel wants to quadruple SSD storage
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Tuesday, 31 March 2015 11:05

Intel wants to quadruple SSD storage


More porn super fast

Intel wants to stuff four bits per cell to get more storage out of SSDs

OCZ announces Vector 180 SSD
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Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:20

OCZ announces Vector 180 SSD


Based on Barefoot 3 controller

OCZ has officially announced its newest addition to the Vector SSD lineup, the Vector 180 SSD, as well as new OCZ Guru storage management software.

HyperX Predator PCIe 240GB, 480GB shipping
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Up to 1400MB/s read and 1000MB/s write

Back in January at CES 2015, we had a chance to see Kingston's HyperX Predator PCIe SSD line and company representatives promised that we should see products in retail by February. 

Kingston Predator SSD coming in February
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Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:29

Kingston Predator SSD coming in February


M.2 or PCIe, 1500+ MB/s read

Kingston HyperX is a strong brand when it comes to a performance storage and memory components, and now the company has refreshed its SSD offering with the Predator line of SSDs. 

Crucial unveils MX200 and BX100 SSDs at CES 2015
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New SSDs for the new year

Crucial is a well known player in the solid state drive market and it's no wonder that the company came to CES 2015 in Las Vegas with a couple of new consumer SSDs, the MX200 and the BX100 series.

ADATA promises USB 3.1 Type C storage
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Tuesday, 23 December 2014 19:06

ADATA promises USB 3.1 Type C storage


More at CES 2015

ADATA has been doing a good job in supplying DDR3 and DDR4 memory, making fancy USB 3.0 flash drives and SSDs. The company is now planning to introduce a refreshed line of storage products and some of them will feature the latest USB 3.1 high speed Type C connector.