Author: Allyn Malventano
New Samsung 840 EVO employs TLC and pseudo-SLC TurboWrite cache
Samsung's release of the 840 EVO earlier today likely prompted some questions, such as what type of flash does it employ and how does it achieve such high write speeds. Here is…
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Samsung releases 840 EVO SSD at Global SSD Summit
Good morning from Seoul, Korea! We're covering the 2013 Samsung Global SSD Summit, and the press embargo has just been lifted on a new SSD - the 840 EVO:
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Intel SSD 5Q roadmap leaks, details upcoming models through to next year
We caught wind of a leaked Intel SSD Roadmap over at VRZone. The slide shows their rough release plans into early 2014: Starting bottom-up, the old 320 Series (cropped slide bottom)...
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Intel Enterprise SSD Roundup – X25-E, SSD 320, 710, 910, DC S3500 and S3700 compared
Introduction: Intel has pushed out many SSDs over the years, and unlike many manufacturers, they have never stopped heavily pushing SSD in the enterprise. They did so with their very...
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Western Digital shrinks 1TB 2.5″ WD Blue HDD down to 7mm
Today Western Digital continues their push for smaller and thinner mobile hard drives by releasing a 1TB revision to their 7mm Blue series of mobile devices: Looking at the...
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Western Digital refreshes enterprise lineup, launches new Se series datacenter HDD
Today Western Digital did a slight rearranging of their enterprise product lineup: Starting from the top down, the Xe series is essentially a SAS version of their 2.5" 10k RPM VelociRaptor form factor,…
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OCZ Vertex 450 256GB SSD Full Review – Indilinx drives 20nm flash
Introduction Last month OCZ introduced the Vertex 3.20, which took their popular Vertex line to 20nm flash territory. The Vertex 3.20 used the same tride and true SandForce...
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Seagate Thin SSHD 500GB Full Review – Third Generation Hybrid
Introduction Seagate recently announced and released their third generation of laptop Solid State Hybrid Drives. Originally thier hybrids carried the Momentus (laptop HDD) name forward, tacking on 'XT' to denote the...
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Western Digital updates mobile Blue series with 5mm thin HDD
Today Western Digital launched their new 5mm 2.5" Blue. This model will only come in 500GB. Capacity options are limited presumably due to a single 500GB platter, which is about all you…
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Western Digital’s new Xe HDDs bridge the legacy enterprise SAS storage gap
Today Western Digital launched a new line of Hard Disk Drives. The Xe is very similar to their VelociRaptor, with the same 2.5"-3.5" heat sink adapter plate. The...
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OCZ Vertex 3.20 240GB Full Review – Vertex 3 Pushes 20nm Flash
Introduction A while back, we saw OCZ undergo a major restructuring. 150+ product SKUs were removed from their lineup, leaving a solid core group of products for the...
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