SSDs
When Western Digital introduced its Ultrastar DC SN861 SSDs earlier this year, the company did not disclose which controller it used for these drives, which made many observers presume that WD was using an in-house controller. But a recent teardown of the drive shows that is not the case; instead, the company is using a controller from Fadu, a South Korean company founded in 2015 that specializes on enterprise-grade turnkey SSD solutions. The Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN861 SSD is aimed at performance-hungry hyperscale datacenters and enterprise customers which are adopting PCIe Gen5 storage devices these days. And, as uncovered in photos from a recent Storage Review article, the drive is based on Fadu's FC5161 NVMe 2.0-compliant controller. The FC5161 utilizes 16 NAND channels supporting...
Intel & Micron Announce First 20nm MLC NAND Flash for Use in SSDs
We just started testing SSDs based on IMFT 25nm NAND Flash and look at what Intel/Micron just announced? The first 8GB MLC NAND device built on a 20nm process...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/14/2011
The OCZ Vertex 3 Review (120GB)
SandForce was first to announce and preview its 2011 SSD controller technology. We first talked about the controller late last year, got a sneak peak at its performance this...
154 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/6/2011
Origin's Genesis: Flagship Bling
Now that we've been getting a fairly steady influx of desktop machines from boutiques, Origin PC is stepping into the ring by sending us their go-to flagship model, the...
39 by Dustin Sklavos on 4/2/2011
The Crucial m4 (Micron C400) SSD Review
Last week I was in Orlando attending CTIA. While enjoying the Florida weather, two SSDs arrived at my office back in NC: Intel's SSD 320, which we just reviewed...
103 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/31/2011
Kingston Releases New V100 Firmware to Address Data Loss Bug
While I was at CTIA last week I ran into a friend from Kingston who let me know about an issue with the JMicron JMF618 based SSDNow V100 SSDs...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/28/2011
The Intel SSD 320 Review: 25nm G3 is Finally Here
It's called the Intel SSD 320, but the part number should give away just what we're looking at here: This is the long awaited third generation Intel based SSD. This...
194 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/28/2011
OCZ Grows Up, Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Indilinx
We first met Indilinx in early 2009, with its Barefoot controller at the heart of OCZ's Vertex SSD. Until SandForce showed up in 2010 with the SF-1200/1500 series of...
41 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/14/2011
The Intel SSD 510 Review
It's been a long time coming but we finally have Intel's third generation SSD. Codenamed Elmcrest, this is not only the first 6Gbps SSD from Intel but it's also...
128 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/2/2011
OCZ Vertex 3 Preview: Faster and Cheaper than the Vertex 3 Pro
Last week OCZ pulled the trigger and introduced the world’s first SF-2000 based SSD: the Vertex 3 Pro. Not only was it the world’s first drive to use SandForce’s...
85 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/24/2011
OCZ Vertex 3 Pro Preview: The First SF-2500 SSD
For the past six months I've been working on research and testing for the next major AnandTech SSD article. I figured I had enough time to line up its...
144 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/17/2011
CES 2011: Corsair Performance Series 3 SSD Benchmarks
Corsair has traditionally been a very conservative player in the SSD space. It started by selling Samsung based drives and eventually moved to Indilinx (although far later than its...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2011
OCZ'z Vertex 3 Pro Demo: World's First SandForce SF-2000
A few months ago SandForce announced its second generation SSD controller: the SF-2000 series. The specs SandForce released at the time were almost too good to be true. As...
62 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2011
Micron's RealSSD C400 uses 25nm NAND at $1.61/GB, Offers 415MB/s Reads
Here’s a little deja vu for you. At last year’s Storage Visions (a small storage show that precedes CES) Micron announced its first 6Gbps SSD, the RealSSD C300. Although...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/4/2011
Intel's SSD 310: G2 Performance in an mSATA Form Factor
Although not quite the Intel SSD announcement we were expecting in Q4, today Intel unveiled its first mSATA SSD: the Intel SSD 310. Based on the 34nm Intel X25-M G2...
52 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/29/2010
Micron's ClearNAND: 25nm + ECC, Combats Increasing Error Rates
NAND endurance is on its way down with each subsequent process generation. At the same time unrecoverable bit error rates are on their way up. Companies like SandForce have...
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/2/2010
ADATA N004 - SATA & USB 3.0 SSD Reviewed
OCZ and Kingston have already shown us what solid state technology can do for external drive transfer speeds when given the headroom provided by USB 3.0 technology. Now, ADATA...
18 by Rajinder Gill on 11/29/2010
Quick Look: Kingston HyperX MAX 3.0, A USB 3.0 V+100 SSD
Although OCZ was first on the market with a USB 3.0 enabled SSD with its Enyo drive, competitors are knocking down the doors and bridging the gap. We saw...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/24/2010
OCZ Vertex Plus Preview: Introducing the Indilinx Martini
Last year was dominated by two SSD controller manufacturers: Intel and Indilinx. Intel delivered the performance while Indilinx offered a value alternative. Once SandForce hit early this year however...
61 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/16/2010
Kingston SSDNow V+100 Review
I'm not sure what it is about SSD manufacturers and overly complicated product stacks. Kingston has no less than six different SSD brands in its lineup. The E Series...
96 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/11/2010
A Quick Look at OCZ's RevoDrive x2: IBIS Performance without HSDL
Over the summer we previewed OCZ's first affordable PCIe SSD: the RevoDrive. Made of a pair of SandForce SF-1200 controllers behind a PCI-X RAID controller and a PCI-X to...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/4/2010
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