South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. is teaming up with Seagate Technology to bolster its presence in solid-state drive (SSD). SK Hynix, seeks a 51:49 joint venture (JV) with Seagate Technology with it holding the bigger interest. SK Hynix said it was looking into various options to strengthen its mid and long-term competitiveness of non-volatile storage […]
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South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. dominated the global solid state drive (SSD) market with a more than 37 percent share, three times as large as its key U.S. rival Intel Corp.. Samsung Electronics saw its share in the global SSD market reach 37.3 percent in the first quarter of the year, compared with […]
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Diablo Technologies announced the launch of Memory1™, the first all-flash server system memory technology that rewrites the rules of datacenter performance and economics. The revolutionary technology packs four times the capacity of the largest DRAM modules, delivering greater capability on fewer servers and lowering datacenter costs by up to 70 percent. The same system memory […]
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Toshiba announced the development of the world’s first 16-die (max.) stacked NAND flash memory utilizing Through Silicon Via (TSV) technology. The prototype will be shown at Flash Memory Summit 2015, to be held from August 11 to 13 in Santa Clara, USA. The prior art of stacked NAND flash memories are connected together with wire […]
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Samsung Electronics has started mass production of NVMe PCIe solid state drive (SSD) which has an M.2 form factor for use in PCs and workstations. Samsung has also begun shipping NVMe SSDs to OEMs for the PC market. Samsung has been offering an AHCI-based PCIe 3.0 version of its SM951 SSD since early January. Now, […]
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Intel and Micron have jointly announced the availability of their 3D NAND technology. This new 3D NAND technology, jointly developed by the companies, stacks layers of data storage cells vertically to create storage devices with three times higher capacity than competing NAND technologies, according to the companies. Intel and Micron chose to use a floating […]
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Samsung unveils new 1 Terabye SSD made with 3D V-NAND Flash Memory. Samsung Electronics have begun mass production of its 2nd-generation three-dimensional (3D) V-NAND flash memory. The new Flash memory chip is more cost-efficient that the previous-genration of 3D V-NAND and stacks 32 multi-level cell (MLC) NAND storage layers in one chip package, up from […]
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What are the various type of SATA SSD Drive ? Serial ATA (SATA) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. Serial ATA replaces the older AT Attachment standard (later referred to as Parallel ATA or PATA), offering several advantages over […]
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Samsung is offering its first Non-Volatile Memory express PCIe SSD in the new Dell R920 server. NVMe an open source standardized low-latency host driver and set, operates over PCIe Gen 2.0 and Gen 3.0 communication protocols. NVMe was designed specifically to optimize the performance of next generation PCIes. NVMe enables variable device throughputs of up […]
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Effect of Radiation on SSD for Space Applications. As the need for lower-cost, higher-density mass storage increases, Aerospace developers and Space engineers are looking towards non-volatile memories such as NAND flash and solid state drives as alternatives for mass storage in space applications.Because of the harsh environment and radiation effects, there are many factors to […]
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