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Samsung's new Portable SSD uses Thunderbolt 3 for lightning-fast data transfer

Michael Irving August 28, 2018

At IFA this week, Samsung has unveiled the Portable SSD X5, a new solid state drive designed with speed in mind. To that end, it's kitted out with a Thunderbolt 3 connection and built on the NVMe platform, marking two firsts for Samsung's portable consumer SSDs.

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Intel stacks up the world's densest solid state drive

Michael Irving August 8, 2018

Intel has unveiled what it calls the world’s densest solid state drive (SSD), packing 32 TB into a device the size of an old 12-inch ruler. The development should help data centers get more bang for their buck, cutting the cost of cooling and making more efficient use of the physical space.

Intel has unveiled the P4500, the world's densest SSD that crams 32 TB into a 12-inch ...

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Samsung sounds death knell for hard drives with 4 TB QLC SSD

Paul Ridden August 7, 2018

Just over a decade ago, Samsung announced the imminent arrival of the first laptops to come with 32 GB NAND flash storage. Now the first consumer-level 4-bit, 4 TB SATA solid state drives have begun mass production, signaling a possible turning point for high capacity home storage.

"Samsung’s new 4-bit SATA SSD will herald a massive move to terabyte-SSDs for consumers," said Samsung's ...

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Toshiba introduces first SSDs built on its 96-layer 3D flash memory

Paul Ridden July 24, 2018

Toshiba Memory America has launched a new range of NVM express solid state drives, the first to be based on the company's 96-layer 3D flash memory. The company says that it's aiming its XG6 series at client computer, high performance mobile, embedded, gaming and data center systems.

Toshiba's 96-layer 3D flash SSD modules are being made available to system manufacturers now

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OWC's lightning-fast ThunderBlade external SSD goes on sale

Paul Ridden April 11, 2018

Photographers, video editors and other creative professionals now have a super fast storage tool to help transport and work with high-bandwidth media files. Other World Computing has announced that the ThunderBlade SSD first shown off at CES back in January is now up for sale.

The OWC ThunderBlade external SSD is available now in capacities ranging from 1 TB to 8 ...

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Nimbus Data launches world's largest SSD with 100 terabyte capacity

Rich Haridy March 19, 2018

Last month Samsung revealed its latest record-breaking large capacity solid state drive cramming 30 TB into a 2.5-inch drive format unit. Now Nimbus Data has quickly smashed Samsung’s benchmark launching the ExaDrive DC100 – a 3.5 inch SSD drive unit with a massive 100 TB capacity.

The new record for world's largest SSD has been set with a capacity of 100 TB

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Samsung's 30+ TB enterprise SSD rolls off the production line

Paul Ridden February 20, 2018

Billed as the world's largest capacity Serial Attached SCSI SSD, the PM1643 has now entered mass production. Samsung has managed to cram 30.72 TB of storage into a 2.5-inch drive format unit, which it hopes will help accelerate the move from hard drives to solid state storage in enterprise systems.

The PM1643 is the first of a number of large capacity solid state drives aimed at ...

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Samsung steps on the gas for super-fast T5 SSD storage

Paul Ridden August 16, 2017

Data hungry folks looking for pocket-friendly storage for 4K videos may have a friend in Samsung, with the release of the T5 portable SSD. The pint-sized drive features high density 64-layer V-NAND solid state technology and makes the most of its USB-C port for super quick data transfer rates.

The T5 portable SSD is capable of data transfer speeds of up to 540 MB/s

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Seagate's new 60TB SAS drive is the world's biggest SSD

Scott Collie August 10, 2016

Businesses are being forced to store huge amounts of data, and manufacturers are ramping up the capacity of their hardware to cope with the load. The latest product of that practice is the 60TB SAS SSD from Seagate, the world's largest solid state drive.

Seagate has rolled out the biggest SSD in the world

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Thunderbolt SSDs satisfy the need for speed

Paul Ridden April 20, 2016

Broadcast professionals recording UHD content need high capacity storage with fast data transfer speeds. Combining Thunderbolt 3 and the latest PCIe SSD technologies results in face-melting data throughput speeds – meet the new solid state drives from Sonnet and Akitio.

Thunder3 PCIe SSD from Akitio (left) and Fusion Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Flash Drive from Sonnet Technologies ...