Patriot this week started sales of its top-of-the-range VPN100-series SSDs. Prototypes of these drives based on the Phison PS5012-E12 controller were demonstrated at CES 2018, but it took the company and its partner quite some time to finalize them. The undertaken efforts paid quite well: the …
Palit Microsystems, which owns a number of GPU brands, entered SSD market a little more than two years ago with entry-level offerings to simplify product development and avoid competition. While Palit mainly sells ultra-high-end video cards and has loads of performance-minded clientele, for these customers the …
OWC this week introduced its second-generation ThunderBlade external SSDs, which are aimed squarely at the high-end, max performance external storage market. Offering up to 2800 MB/s sequential read speeds, the new drives offer the same performance as the first-generation ThunderBlade SSDs, but are priced significantly lower. …
With more and more laptops and devices being equipped with flash memory, that often means it becomes too expensive to get a good amount of storage built-in. And, with so many more of us travelling around for work, working from home or needing to use more …
Seagate has launched a new range of SATA SSDs aimed at gamers. It says that the new FireCuda 120 devices are “designed for gamers who require speed, durability, and generous capacity.” However, it isn’t clear if there is anything at all to distinguish these SSDs from …
SK Hynix today announced that they’ve begun sampling new generation enterprise EDSFF E1.L SSDs based on their 128-layer “4D NAND” flash modules, in the form of the new PE8111, as well as for the first time introducing PCIe 4.0 connectivity in its new 96-layer U.2/U.3 form-factor …
At this year’s CES, Patriot has introduced an enhanced version of its EVLVR (Evolver) Thunderbolt 3 external SSD. The new drive is set to offer radically improved sequential read/write performance versus the earlier EVLVR, and will come in capacities of up to 2 TB. The Patriot …