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Faster Memory Cards With SD 8.0 Spec

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Faster Memory Cards With SD 8.0 Spec

The SD Association (SDA) announces the SD 8.0 specification-- leveraging the PCIe 4.0 specification to create faster SD Express memory cards, with data transfer rates reaching up to 4GB/s.

SD Express uses the PCIe 4.0 specification and the latest NVMe specification (up to 1.4). The SD 8.0 specification provides to transfer speed options for SD Express memory cards through support for either PCIe 3.0 x2 or PCIe 4.0 x1 with up to 2GB/s and with PCIe 4.0 x2 technology with up to 4GB/s. SD Express cards based on PCIe 4.0 x1 architecture use the same form factor as SD 7.0 cards, with a second row of pins, while cards supporting dual PCIe lanes (PCIe 3.0 x2 or PCIe 4.0 x2) have three rows of pins.

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Crucial Intros P2, P5 NVMe SSDs

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Crucial Intros P2, P5 NVMe SSDs

Micron launches a pair of NVMe SSD lines through the Crucial consumer brand-- the P2 and P5, with the P5 being the first SSD from the company featuring an in-house controller design in a retailer capacity.

Available in capacities including 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB, the P5 offers sequential read speeds reaching 3400MB/s. Sequential write speeds reach 3000MB/s with exception of the 250GB model. Instead, the lowest-capacity option provides sequential write speeds clocking at 1400MB/s. Random read IOPS are 210000 for the 250 and 500GB SSDs, while the 1TB offers 390000 and the 2TB drives at 430000. On the other hand, random write IOPS are 355000 for the 250GB model and 500000 for all the others. Micron adds all the drives include a set of encryption standards, allowing for some security.

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Team Group Cools SSDs With Graphene Copper

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Team Group Cools SSDs With Graphene Copper

Team Group announces the T-Force Cardea Zero Z330 and Z340-- a pair of M.2 form factor NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 SSDs featuring a patented graphene copper foil cooling module providing what the company claims is a 9% cooling effect in sustained use.

The cooling module is just 1mm thick, and Team Group says the cooling effect can be observed after three hours of continuous read/write ops. That said, one has to keep in mind the SSDs were compared with drives lacking any cooling, as opposed to an SSD with a conventional metal heatsink. However it does make for drives with an attractive black and gold design aimed primarily at gamer customers.

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Transcend MicroSD Cards with SLC Caching

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Transcend MicroSD Cards with SLC Caching

Transcend launches the USD230I, a range of microSD cards with support for pseudo-SLC caching to boost burst write speeds. The company claims the cards offer data transfer speeds of up to 100MB/s, while random read/write reaches 3400 IOPS.

The cards carry both A1 and V3 badges, meaning they can be used to install Google Android applications with a minimum write speed of up to 30MB/s, or good enough for 4K video shooting. First introduced back in 2017, so far pseudo-SLC caching has not been used in other memory cards. The USD230I range uses 3D TLC NAND memory, necessitating the need for pSLC caching to boost writing performance.

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Synology Intros DiskStation DS220j Entry-Level NAS

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Synology Intros DiskStation DS220j Entry-Level NAS

Synology announces an entry-level consumer NAS-- the DiskStation DS220j, a 2-bay storage device able to hold up to 32TB of storage via two 16TB drives, making ideal for a personal cloud solution for data sharing and backup.

The DiskStation DS220j is based on a Realtek RTD1296, a 64-bit, 4-core 1.4GHz CPU, together with 512MB of DDR4 RAM. It has two 3.5-inch bays able to house both 3.5- and 2.5-inch devices, as well as x1 GBe and x2 USB-A ports. It operates the drives in Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR), Basic, JBOD, RAID 0 or RAID 1 modes, and while it uses the ext4 file systems it also supports ext4, ext3, FAT, NTFS, HFS+, and exFAT. Synology claims performance reaches over 112MB/s, at least in terms of sequential read/write.

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Buffalo Launches Tiny, Rugged External SSDs

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Buffalo Launches Tiny, Rugged External SSDs

Buffalo launches a range of external SSDs promising to be both tough and tiny-- the SSD-PSMU3, miniature storage devices measuring just 33 x 9.5x 59.5mm and designed to comply with the MIL-STD 810G 516.6 Procedure IV drop test.

According to the company, the SSDs were tested to survive six face drop tests, eight corner drop tests and 12 edge drop tests, all from a height of around 1.2m. Passing the test means the drives remain in working condition and suffer no physical or internal damage. Buffalo also promises data secure, with SecureLock Mobile2 technology encoding data using an AES-256 key and a SMART function to predict storage component failure.

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Portable SSD Storage With Adata SE760

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Portable SSD Storage With Adata SE760

Customers wanting a sleek portable SSD get an Adata option with the SE760, a device promising broad compatibility and high performance with a USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface allowing for speeds reaching up to 10Gbps.

Available in 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities, the SE760 carries 3D NAND flash and is rated to perform at sequential read/write speeds of up to 1Gbps. The brushed metal enclosure comes in black or gray, measures 122.2 x 44 x 14mm and weighs 95g. While the drive features a USB-C interface, Adata includes both USB-C to USB-C and USB-C to USB-A cables in order to ensure compatibility with any PC.

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HAMR-Based HD Media From SDK

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HAMR-Based HD Media From SDK

Japan's Showa Denko (SDK) develops the technology for the manufacturing of next-generation HDDs based on Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR), enabling the eventual creation of 3.5-inch HDDs with capacities reaching 70-80TB.

As the name suggests, HAMR is a recording method involving the heating of a magnetic film in order to record data. To do so, the SDK technology uses small grains of magnetic crystals with thermal stability and information writability. Also involved are aluminium platters and a thin films of Fe-Pt alloy, a magnetic material both powerful and with high corrosion resistance.

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JEDEC Updates UFS Standard

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JEDEC Updates UFS Standard

JEDEC Solid State Technology Association publishes Universal Flash Storage (UFS) version 3.1 (aka JESD220E), an update to the standard promising to increase performance, minimise power usage and potentially cut the costs of high-capacity storage devices.

Key updates to the standard include Write Booster (a SLC non-volatile cache to amplify write speeds), DeepSleep (a low-power state for lower-cost systems) and Performance Throttling Notification (allows the UFS device to notify the host when high temperatures throttle storage performance). A JESD220-3 Host Performance Booster (HPB) extension provides an option to cache the UFS device logical-to-physical address map to system DRAM, providing larger and faster caching and thus improving the read performance of the device.

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