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DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs

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The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia, and Western Digital serving the…

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Fadu’s FC5161 SSD Controller Breaks Cover in Western Digital’s PCIe Gen5 Enterprise Drives

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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…

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Kioxia Details BiCS 8 NAND at FMS 2024: 218 Layers With Superior Scaling

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Kioxia’s booth at FMS 2024 was a busy one with multiple technology demonstrations keeping visitors occupied. A walk-through of the BiCS 8 manufacturing process was the first to grab my attention. Kioxia and Western Digital announced the sampling of BiCS 8 in March 2023. We had touched briefly upon its CMOS Bonded Array (CBA) scheme…

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Western Digital Introduces 4 TB microSDUC, 8 TB SDUC, and 16 TB External SSDs

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Western Digital’s BiCS8 218-layer 3D NAND is being put to good use in a wide range of client and enterprise platforms, including WD’s upcoming Gen 5 client SSDs and 128 TB-class datacenter SSD. On the external storage front, the company demonstrated four different products: for card-based media, 4 TB microSDUC and 8 TB SDUC cards…

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Western Digital Previews M.2 2280 PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe Client SSDs: 15GBps at Under 7 Watts

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Western Digital’s FMS 2024 demonstrations included a preview of their upcoming PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs for mobile workstations and consumer desktops. The Gen 5 client SSD market has been dominated by solutions based on Phison’s E26 controller. The first generation products launched with slower NAND flash, while the more recent ones have…

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Western Digital Teases 128 TB Enterprise SSD: BiCS8 3D QLC for AI Workloads

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A week after Western Digital confirmed that it had begun sampling of its 64 TB SSDs for datacenters, the company has teased its next-generation product, a 128 TB solid-state drive at FMS 2024. For now, all we know about Western Digital’s 128 TB SSD is that it uses the company’s BiCS8 QLC NAND memory and…

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Western Digital: We Are Sampling 32TB SMR Hard Drives

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In an unexpected announcement during their quarterly earnings call this week, Western Digital revealed that it has begun sampling an upcoming 32TB hard drive. The nearline HDD is aimed at hyperscalers, and relies on a combination of Westen Digital’s EAMR technology, as well as shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to hit their highest capacity figures…

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Western Digital Adds 8TB Model to Popular High-End SN850X SSD Drive Family

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Western Digital has quietly introduced an 8 TB version of its high-end SN850X SSD, doubling the top capacity of the well-regarded drive family. The new drive offers performance on par with other members of the range, but with twice as much capacity as the previous top-end model – and with a sizable price premium to…

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Kioxia’s High-Performance 3D QLC NAND Enables High-End High-Capacity SSDs

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This week, Kioxia introduced its new 3D QLC NAND devices aimed at high-performance, high-capacity drives that could redefine what we typically expect from QLC-based SSDs. The components are 1 Tb and 2 Tb 3D QLC NAND ICs with a 3600 MT/s interface speed that could enable M.2-2230 SSDs with a 4 TB capacity and decent…

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Samsung Joins The 60 TB SSD Club, Looking Forward To 120 TB Drives

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Multiple companies offer high-capacity SSDs, but until recently, only two companies offered high-performance 60 TB-class drives with a PCIe interface: Solidigm and Western Digital. As our colleagues from Blocks & Files discovered, Samsung quietly rolled out its BM1743 61.44 TB solid-state drive in mid-June and now envisions 120 TB-class SSDs based on the same platform. Samsung’s BM1743…

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