Samsung Portable SSD T3 2TB Review – 2TB In Your Pocket
Introduction Around this same time last year, Samsung launched their Portable SSD T1. This was a nifty little external SSD with some very good performance and capabilities. Despite...
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Author: Allyn Malventano
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB and 250GB 2.5″ SATA SSD Full Review – The Return of 2D NAND
Introduction The steady increase in flash memory capacity per die is necessary for bringing SSD costs down, but SSDs need a minimum number of dies present to maintain good performance. Back...
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What Micron’s Upcoming 3D NAND Means for SSD Capacity, Performance, and Cost
You may have seen a wave of Micron 3D NAND news posts these past few days, and while many are repeating the 11-month old news with talks of 10TB/3.5TB on a...
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OCZ Launches Trion 150, Successor to Trion 100 SATA SSD, Now Using 15nm Flash
*Note* This piece originally stated 'A15nm', however this was an error in the Trion 150 spec sheet at OCZ. It has been corrected in this article (as well as at the…
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Triple M.2 Samsung 950 Pro Z170 PCIe NVMe RAID Tested – Why So Snappy?
NVMe was a great thing to happen to SSDs. The per-IO reduction in latency and CPU overhead was more than welcome, as PCIe SSDs were previously using the antiquated AHCI protocol, which…
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Fixstars Launches 13TB 2.5″ SATA SSD Geared Towards Media Streaming
Got a high bandwidth video camera that fills a piddly 4TB SSD in too short of a time? How about a 13TB SSD! Fixstars certainly gets cool points for launching such...
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Seagate Breaks into Helium Market with 10TB Enterprise Capacity Hard Drive
Seagate updated their Enterprise Capacity line of HDDs this morning with a monster of a 10TB unit: To achieve this capacity, Seagate switched over to a sealed, Helium filled design (similar to what
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Synology Launches DiskStation DS416j NAS
Synology has updated their popular DiskStation line with a new sleek looking 4-bay unit: The DiskStation DS416j is equipped with a Marvell Armada 88F6828 dual-core CPU running at 1.3 GHz coupled...
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CES 2016: Silicon Motion Updates SM2246EN for 3D NAND, Teases TLC and PCIe
Silicon Motion has updated their popular SM2246EN controller to support MLC 3D NAND from IMFT and SK Hynix: The SM2246EN acts as a gateway for third parties to make their own SSDs. Adding…
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CES 2016: Samsung Announces 850 EVO-based Portable SSD T3 – Updated
We got our first look at the Samsung T1 SSD at CES 2015. The concept was simple - Make a very compact external portable encrypted drive, and make it fast....
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CES 2016: Fasetto Teases Link SSD Storage Platform
Fasetto is a company previously known as one of those cross-platform file-sharing web apps, but I was shocked to see them with a space at CES Unveiled. Companies without physical products…
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Transcend to run MLC Flash in SLC Mode for ‘SuperMLC’ Speed Boost
Last year we saw Micron toy with the idea of dynamically flipping flash memory dies between SLC and MLC modes. Ok paper, it sounded like a great idea - get the...
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