Solidigm
SK hynix this week reported its financial results for the second quarter, as well as offering a glimpse at its plans for the coming quarters. Notably among the company's plans for the year is the release of a SK hynix-branded 60 TB SSD, which will mark the firm's entry into the ultra-premium enterprise SSD league. "SK hynix plans to expand sales of high-capacity eSSD and lead the market in the second half with 60TB products, expecting eSSD sales to be more than quadrupled compared to last year," a statement by SK hynix reads. Currently there are only two standard form-factor 61.44 TB SSDs on the market: the Solidigm D5-P5336 (U.2/15mm and E1.L), and the Samsung BM1743 (U.2/15mm and E3.S). Both are built from a proprietary controller...
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The solid state storage industry has been in a well-documented slide for the better part of the last year now. With storage product demand from both the client and...
18 by Anton Shilov on 10/25/2023Solidigm Introduces D7-P5810: 144L SLC NVMe Drive for Write-Intensive Workloads
Solidigm's datacenter SSD offerings have been clearly delineated into different categories - the D3- SATA offerings for legacy servers, the D5- QLC-based offerings (with different models offering different tradeoffs...
3 by Ganesh T S on 9/25/2023Solidigm Announces D5-P5336: 64 TB-Class Data Center SSD Sets NVMe Capacity Records
Advancements in flash technology have come as a boon to data centers. Increasing layer counts coupled with better vendor confidence in triple-level (TLC) and quad-level cells (QLC) have contributed...
18 by Ganesh T S on 7/20/2023Solidigm D5-P5430 Addresses QLC Endurance in Data Center SSDs
Solidigm has been extremely bullish on QLC SSDs in the data center. Compared to other flash vendors, their continued use of a floating gate cell architecture (while others moved...
7 by Ganesh T S on 5/16/2023Solidigm Synergy 2.0 Amplifies P41 Plus and P44 Pro Performance with Custom Driver
Solidigm has been active in the PC client SSD market with the QLC-based P41 Plus and the traditional TLC-based P44 Pro for the high-end market. While introducing the P41...
14 by Ganesh T S on 5/3/2023Solidigm Announces P41 Plus SSD: Taking Another Shot at QLC With Cache Tiering
Although Intel is no longer directly in the SSD market these days, their SSD team and related technologies continue to live on under the SK hynix umbrella as Solidigm...
44 by Ryan Smith on 8/2/2022Solidigm Launches First Post-Intel Enterprise SSDs: D7-P5620 and D7-P5520
Back in late 2021, Intel and SK hynix completed the first stage of their long-awaited transfer of Intel’s NAND (and NAND-based SSD) business to SK hynix. That company, in...
10 by Ryan Smith on 4/26/2022Intel Sells SSD Business to SK hynix as new Subsidiary Solidigm
In a brief news release from Intel this afternoon, the chip firm has announced that it has closed on the first stage of its deal to sell its SSD...
21 by Ryan Smith on 12/29/2021