Micron Technology, Inc., today announced availability of the Micron 7400 SSD with NVMe, delivering industry-leading form factor flexibility, PCIe Gen4 performance, and leading-edge security to meet the storage needs of demanding data center workloads. With this portfolio, Micron is providing the broadest selection of mainstream data center SSDs available. Featuring seven form factors, the Micron 7400 SSD enables the transition to next-generation server architectures.

Data centers continue to evolve thanks to the rapid growth of data and proliferation of applications that demand high performance. The need to process, analyze and secure data that provides valuable insights is fueling the modernization of the data center, requiring new levels of storage innovation.

Chenbro, a pioneer in the design and manufacturing of own-brand rackmount systems, is excited to announce the latest compact 2U JBOD, the DS25224, which supports 24 x 2.5” tool-less SAS or SATA drives, with the 12Gbps redundant expanders. It offers optimal reliability for high-density storage in the big data era.

High-density storage in the big data era

Big data and data analytics are driving a continuous demand for storage capacity and the JBOD (just a bunch of disks) array is proving to be a compelling solution for it. Chenbro offers DS25224 to support 24 x 2.5” SATA/SAS drive bays as a primary storage solution. The JBOD is specifically designed to meet the needs of 2.5” HDD/SSD testing environments, which include 3 x 2.5” 8-port 12Gbps SAS/SATA dual-path passive BP, a super cool HDD working temperature (<50°C/122°F at 30°C/86°F) and 3 x 80mm hot-swap cooling fans. DS25224 is specifically designed to provide data resilience and accessibility for your computing and storage applications.

ADATA Technology, a manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules, NAND Flash products, mobile accessories, gaming products, electric power trains, and industrial solutions today announces the new ADATA Premier Extreme SDXC SD Express Card. Thanks to the latest SD 7.0 specification, which supports PCIe and NVMe, the Premier Extreme SDXC SD 7.0 Express Card delivers performance on par with SSDs, but in the ultra-portable form factor of an SD Card.

With support for PCIe Gen3x1 and NVMe, the Premier Extreme SDXC SD Express Card delivers read and write performance of up to 800/700 MB/s, which is roughly 1.5 times faster than SATA SSDs. When compared to UHS-II SD and UHS-I SD cards, it's about 2.7 and 8 times faster, respectively. This memory card is backward compatible with the UHS-I devices with read and write speed of up to 100MB/s and conforms to the V30 Video Speed Class.

It can be inserted into digital cameras to take high-quality photos or 4K videos and then inserted into a PC that supports SD 7.0 for seamless editing or playback. With capacities ranging from 256GB to 512GB, the Premier Extreme SDXC SD Express Card has plenty of space for loads of content to allow creativity without limitations.

QNAP Systems, Inc. (QNAP) today officially released the QTS 5.0 operating system, which includes an upgraded Linux Kernel (5.10), improved security, WireGuard VPN support, and enhanced NVMe SSD cache performance. A new app (QuFTP) is available to help fulfill personal and business file transfer needs. Starting from QTS 5.0, exFAT is also natively supported free of charge on x86-based QNAP NAS, providing users with faster large file transfer and smoother media editing experience.

“With the new Linux Kernel 5.10 featuring greater hardware support, alongside advancements in security, QTS 5.0 demonstrates excellent capabilities for QNAP NAS to leverage the latest technologies and to protect digital assets,” said Tony Lu, Product Manager of QNAP, adding “Besides automatically updating apps, QTS 5.0 includes more comprehensive security settings, notifications, and related apps to help keep NAS up-to-date and ready to face changing environments and conditions.”

According to a recent report, it is estimated that more than 50 million people across the globe self-identified as having a career in the cultural and creative industries. With the everchanging definition of "creator" in a technology-driven world, this title now reaches beyond graphic designers and videographers to include content creators, UI/UX designers, artists and illustrators, entrepreneurs and freelancers, engineers, architects, grad students and more.

When crunching large amounts of data on their next passion project, access to fast and reliable storage solutions can greatly improve a creator's workflow, giving them peace of mind and allowing them to stay in the creative moment. With intense workload demands, today's creative professionals need technology that empowers their creativity without stress over losing their brilliant work, project bottlenecks or slow storage speeds.

Western Digital, a global leader in data infrastructure, has launched a new solution for the growing community of creators around the world: the WD Blue™ SN570 NVMe™ SSD. The new internal flash drive is a powerful solution for upgrading current PCs or optimizing a custom build.

ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules, NAND Flash products, and mobile accessories today announces the launch of a new generation of industrial-grade DDR5 memory modules that offer a major leap forward in performance. They are geared toward assisting the development of 5G, AI, Edge Computing, High-Performance Computing, Automated Vehicles, and Smart Healthcare, to name a few.

According to Yole Developments, DDR5 memory shipments will exceed DDR4 by 2023 and DDR5 sales will account for 90% of the market by 2026. DDR5 will be the undisputed standard of the future and a key component of 5G, AIoT, and other applications. To meet the future demands of its customers, ADATA has unveiled a slew of DDR5 memory modules, including U-DIMM and SO-DIMM variants. The modules utilize select high-quality ICs straight from the manufacturer and will come with capacities of 8GB and above. Compared with DDR4, DDR5 has twice the bandwidth and offers higher frequencies of up to 4800MHz. What’s more, they operate on just 1.1V for improved energy efficiency.

Phison Electronics Corp., a global leader in NAND flash controller integrated circuits and storage solutions, today announced its technology development of PCIe Gen 5 customizable SSD solutions for Enterprise and Client SSDs.

Phison customers from Hyperscale Cloud Data Centers to PC Gaming demand the fastest performance motherboards and SSD storage devices. Their business models require that they transition to the newest technologies when they first become available, usually well before the rest of the software and hardware ecosystem has been established.

Phison is enabling our valued customers with PCIe Gen 5 SSD platforms that may be customized to perform optimally in their applications.

Customers who are early adopters of PCIe Gen 5 SSDs will benefit from superior specifications and first to market leadership revenue. The data rate specification for PCIe Gen 5 at 32Gb/s is twice the lane speed of PCIe Gen 4 at 16Gb/s, enabling either double the overall performance, or offering similar performance, but using half as many lanes as PCIe Gen 4.