Toshiba’s transition from planar NAND flash to 3D NAND flash memory has been a long, drawn-out process. Their BiCS 3D NAND architecture is on its third generation but has yet to have any significant impact on the SSD market. The first generation of BiCS 3D NAND …
Storage bridges come in many varieties within the internal and external market segments. USB has become the de-facto standard when it comes to external mass-market storage enclosures. But while there are plenty of options to bridge SATA devices in different form factors to USB, the rapid …
Today Corsair is launching the Force Series MP510 as their new high-end M.2 NVMe SSD. The MP510 is a big improvement over the preceding MP500, replacing the Phison E7 controller with the new E12 controller and switching from planar MLC NAND to Toshiba’s 64-layer 3D TLC …
NVMe based M.2 drives have been in the consumer landscape for a couple of years now. Typically these blazing fast mass storage devices come with a much higher price per gigabyte than its 2.5″/7mm SATA based cousins. As time has gone on, more players entered the …
There are a variety of different terms for solid state drives these days, the three most popular being SATA 3, M.2, and NVMe. If you’ve recently looked at purchasing an SSD, chances are you’ve come across these terms, but you may not completely understand the technical …
Uneasy can be the head that wears a crown, and recently that’s been Samsung’s pate when it comes to fastest M.2 NVMe SSD on the planet. The company barely held onto its headgear after a challenge from the far-cheaper WD Black NVMe. A response was required. …
Samsung today unveiled its latest pair of solid state drives (SSD), and they’re both as speedy as it gets. As if designed to answer Western Digital’s new drives introduced earlier this month, Samsung’s new 970 series, which includes the 970 Pro and Evo NVMe SSDs, kick …
