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In a recent study, researchers from Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, describe a new way of implementing a key-value store in solid state drives, which offers many advantages over a more widely used method. A key-value store is a way of storing, managing, and retrieving data in the form of key-value pairs.
For consumers who need to accelerate their productivity and protect their valuable content without compromising style, Western Digital introduced the new WD brand My Passport SSD in capacities up to 2TB. With a sleek, compact metal design and blazing fast speeds powered by NVMe technology, the new palm-sized drive allows home and business users to save, access and protect the content that matters. "The new My Passport SSD delivers the speed, reliability and functionality consumers have come to expect from us," said Susan Park, vice president, Consumer Solutions, Western Digital.
These SSDs require controllers with optimized footprints and power while driving the NAND flash to its maximum potential and maintaining a rich feature set and the reliability demanded by this enterprise class of NVMe SSD. Microchip announced its newest member of the Flashtec family, the Flashtec NVMe 3108 PCIe Gen 4 enterprise NVMe SSD controller. The 8-channel Flashtec NVMe 3108 complements the 16-channel Flashtec NVMe 3016 and provides a full suite of PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD solutions to support a comprehensive set of data center storage requirements.
We sat down with Scott Hamilton, Senior Director, Product Management, Data Center Systems at Western Digital, to learn more about SSDs and how they fit into current business environments and data centers. What features do SSDs need to have in order to offer uncompromised performance for the most demanding servers running mission-critical workloads in enterprise environments? What are some of the misconceptions IT leaders are facing when choosing SSDs? First, IT leaders must understand environmental considerations, including the application, use case and its intended workload, before committing to specific SSDs. It's well understood that uncompromised performance is paramount to support mission critical workloads in the enterprise environment.
Western Digital announced new solutions that provide the foundation for next-generation data infrastructures designed around Ultrastar NVMe SSDs and supercharged by NVMe-oF. Building upon the company's innovative design and integration capabilities - from NAND Flash to storage platforms - the new dual-port, performance Ultrastar DC SN840 NVMe SSDs and in-house RapidFlex NVMe-oF controllers are standalone solutions that combine to create the new OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform, a new shared storage JBOF enclosure that extends the value of NVMe to multiple hosts over a low-latency Ethernet fabric network. These new solutions further expand Western Digital's data center portfolio to help customers transition to higher efficiency NVMe SSDs and more advanced shared storage architectures to meet the evolving demands of performance-driven applications and workloads.
Virtium announced expansion of its StorFly line of industrial-grade SSDs, boosting storage capacity in drives that protect critical data in the harsh environments of embedded systems and Industrial Internet of Things applications. The newly expanded Virtium StorFly line features industrial temperature support, ensuring their continuous operation in extreme temperatures.
Kingston Digital, the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, began shipping the 7.68TB model of the Data Center 500R and 450R SATA SSDs. The DC1000M 7.68TB U.2 NVMe ships in June. The SSDs provide additional storage and implement strict QoS ensuring predictable IO and low latency for data centers using both NVMe and/or SATA. DC500R VMware Ready SSD engineered for read-intensive applications such as webservers, virtual desktop infrastructure, operational databases and real-time analytics.
Kingston Digital, the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, announced KC2500, its next generation M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD for desktop, workstations and high-performance computing systems. KC2500 NVMe PCIe SSD delivers powerful performance using the latest Gen 3.0 x 4 controller and 96-layer 3D TLC NAND. With speeds up to 3,500MB/s read and up to 2,900MB/s write, KC2500 combines outstanding performance and endurance that improves workflow for desktop, workstation and power users.
Kingston Digital, the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, announced its SSD business continues to grow at a strong rate following an astounding 2019. Since 2019, Kingston has broadened its SSD portfolio with three new client SSDs, five data center-specific drives two of which achieved VMware Ready status and launched its first U.2 NVMe PCIe solution.
SANBlaze Technology, the leader in NVMe SSD testing, announced the availability of TCG Opal verification testing for NVMe solid state drives. The verification of the TCG Opal specification requires the creation of security keys which are exchanged with the device implementing the Opal specification and device encryption.