Tag: SSD

March 28, 2017

Intel’s Optane Memory could be the most revolutionary letdown in storage history. Announced Monday morning, these first consumer Optane-based devices will be available April 24 in two M.2 trims: A 16GB model for $44 and a 32GB Optane Memory device […]

March 14, 2017

A dearth in NAND flash chip supply will cause the prices of mainstream SSDs (solid-state drives) to leap by as much as 16 percent this quarter over the previous quarter, meaning laptop makers won’t likely offer consumers higher capacity SSDs […]

September 22, 2016

Samsung on Wednesday released two of its highest-capacity SSDs for consumers. The drives are based on the M.2 “gumstick” form factor, which is quickly being adopted in the latest ultra-thin notebooks and PCs. The new 960 Pro and 960 EVO […]

August 10, 2016

Lenovo is developing an SSD storage board with a monstrous 48TB capacity, and the company plans to release it by the middle of next year. The board is basically a collection of high-capacity SSDs. It provides an efficient way of […]

July 21, 2016

Earlier this month Samsung released version 4.9.7 of their SSD Magician software. Even though it’s not mentioned on their website, this firmware update (DXT0AB0Q) is also available for the Samsung SSD 840, predecessor of the more popular SSD 840 EVO. […]

July 7, 2016

Software-defined storage – and hyper-converged infrastructure – provider Storpool has added some incremental improvements to its product, such as Cloudstack integration and boosting scalability to 20,000 volumes and snapshots per cluster. The provider has chosen to hold back on offering […]

March 31, 2015

With all the photos, videos, apps and tunes you have, the storage on your smartphone may not be enough. With that in mind, Intel is researching new ways to up the storage capacity in mobile devices and PCs without hurting […]