Samsung Electronics America today announced a 4TB capacity for its T7 Shield Portable Solid State Drive (PSSD), Samsung’s most durable drive to date. Designed for outdoor content creators or travelers who want to secure and protect their data from exposure to the elements or life’s mishaps, the new capacity joins the 1TB and 2TB variants of the T7 Shield introduced in April 2022.

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The T7 Shield 4TB can combat the storage limitations of many devices. With 4TB of capacity, consumers can take more pictures on their phones, gamers can keep more titles in their game libraries, and creators can save hours of recorded video at resolutions up to 12K.

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Silicon Power releases the new UD85, the perfect entry-level, budget-friendly choice for those looking to make the switch to the latest generation of PCIe interface.

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Upgrade Your Productivity
The UD85 is the perfect introduction to the power of PCIe 4.0. With support for NVMe 1.4 and Host Memory Buffer (HMB) technology, you'll get uninterrupted productivity via higher performance and lower latency for seamless execution across applications.

Speed Up Your Efficiency
The UD85 delivers a fast and smooth experience with read speeds up to 3,600MB/s and write speeds up to 2,800MB/s. It achieves improved sequential read/write and random read/write performance with support for SLC Caching.

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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced production readiness of a high-performance PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, the PM9C1a. Integrated with a new controller based on Samsung’s cutting-edge 5-nanometer (nm) process and the company’s seventh-generation V-NAND technology, the PM9C1a will provide elevated computing and gaming performance in PCs and laptops.

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“Our new PM9C1a SSD will deliver a robust combination of superior performance, greater power efficiency and increased security, which are the qualities that matter most to PC users,” said Yong Ho Song, Executive Vice President of Memory Solution Product & Development at Samsung Electronics. “We are committed to creating storage that satisfies the diverse and changing market requirements, as we continue to advance innovation in the PC SSD space.”

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QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading computing, networking, and storage solution innovator, today launched new high-performance TVS-h874 QuTS hero NAS models that incorporate 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i9 sixteen-core, i7 twelve-core multi-thread processors with Intel® Core™ Hybrid Technology for optimal computing performance and smooth multiple virtual machine (VM) operation. Integrating the reliable ZFS-based operating system, PCIe Gen 4 expandability, M.2 NVMe SSD caching, and 2.5GbE/10GbE connectivity, the TVS-h874 assists businesses in building high-performance storage environments for hosting multiple VM, application servers, and running business data backup/restore applications.

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“The new TVS-h874 models adopt Intel® Core™ Hybrid Technology, combining Performance-cores and Efficient-cores,” said Andy Chuang, Product Manager of QNAP, adding “The Performance Hybrid Architecture intelligently allocates CPU cores to different tasks, thus increasing the performance of the new TVS-h874 models by 3.55 times compared with previous models.”

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Synology today announced the new 2-bay Synology DiskStation DS723+, the smallest expandable option in its lineup of all-in-one solutions for home offices and small businesses.

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Powered by the versatile Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system, the DS723+ offers comprehensive solutions to protect and manage business data, easily collaborate on documents, access files remotely, and monitor physical assets, all within a compact desktop format.

"This new unit delivers impressive performance and capability for its size," said Michael Wang, Product Manager at Synology. "With its extremely compact form factor, it will certainly appeal to those that have smaller storage requirements but don't want to give up on the convenience of centralized storage and the possibility to scale in the future."

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World-leading memory brand, TEAMGROUP, has announced new breakthroughs in the TEAMGROUP ELITE U-DIMM DDR5 Standard Memory. To ensure compatibility with next-generation platforms, TEAMGROUP has pioneered the first high-performance 6,400MHz spec per JEDEC definitions for consumers to enjoy upgraded performances with ease in the DDR5 generation.

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To ensure a stable performance of 6,400MHz and above of the DDR5, TEAMGROUP has adopted the new CKD (client clock driver) components designed to strengthen, buffer, and steadily output high-frequency signals from the CPU to DDR5 memory kits, effectively ensuring high frequencies while supporting reliable high-speed transmissions. TEAMGROUP is dedicated to R&D and working simultaneously with motherboard manufacturers for rigorous compatibility testing, offering high-quality and highly compatible memory products for desktops and laptops to consumers around the world, fulfilling user demands for PC, laptops, or other small systems.

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TerraMaster, a professional brand that specializes in providing innovative storage products for home, businesses and enterprises, announces the new TOS 5.1 Beta operating system with new features and improved performance. New features and improvements include upgraded kernel, 4K hardware decoding, storage pool expansion via USB, Hyper Cache, categorized notifications, USB Storage Management, optimized Docker Manager, better AI computing performance for Terra Photos and other applications, and more.

TerraMaster TOS 5.1 Beta is now available for download on select TNAS devices.

Upgraded Kernel
The TOS 5.1 kernel has been updated from 4.19 to 5.15. The update kernel on TOS 5.1 Beta optimized EXT4/Btrfs/NTFs file systems and SMB3 file server, used ext4/f2fs/ubifs file system encryption in the encryption API, enabled Apple M1 SoC functionality under Linux and added USB 4 interface support, which greatly improved the performance and security of file system.

4K Hardware Decoding
The new hardware decoding driver for Intel Jasper Lake GPU is added, which will significantly improve 4K video hardware decoding capability for TerraMaster NAS.

Storage pool expansion via USB
By connecting TerraMaster USB disk array, users can easily expand the storage space of the storage pool for TNAS. It supports TRAID/RAID 0/RAID 1/RAID 5/RAID 6 array mode and provide 10Gb storage bandwidth. Compared with eSATA or mini SAS expansion enclosures, TerraMaster USB expansion enclosures are more economical and more convenient.

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Micron Technology, Inc., today announced the Micron 9400 NVMe SSD is in volume production and immediately available from channel partners and to global OEM customers for use in servers requiring the highest levels of storage performance. The Micron 9400 is designed to manage the most demanding data center workloads, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI) training, machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. The drive delivers an industry-leading 30.72 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity, superior workload performance versus the competition, and 77% improved input/output operations per second (IOPS). The Micron 9400 is the world’s fastest PCIe Gen4 data center U.3 drive shipping and delivers consistently low latency at all capacity points.

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“High performance, capacity and low latency are critical features for enterprises seeking to maximize their investments in AI/ML and supercomputing systems,” said Alvaro Toledo, vice president and general manager of data center storage at Micron. “Thanks to its industry-leading 30TB capacity and stunning performance with over 1 million IOPS in mixed workloads, the Micron 9400 SSD packs larger datasets into each server and accelerates machine learning training, which equips users to squeeze more out of their GPUs.”

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This week at CES 2023, KIOXIA America, Inc., the inventors of NAND flash, will highlight new technologies, products, and form factors designed to meet upcoming IT requirements and standards – including PCIe 5.0 and UFS 4.0.

In an ever-changing technology landscape, where evolving standards push performance levels higher and higher, KIOXIA stands ready for what comes next – thanks to its broad, diverse lineup of flash storage solutions. “Whether it’s the next connected vehicle, the next personal mobility device or the next smart city – we keep advancing flash memory to make the next thing possible,” said Alex Mei, vice president of corporate marketing for KIOXIA America, Inc. “Countless consumer devices and applications require flash memory and SSDs, and we are committed to continued innovation.”

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TerraMaster, a professional brand that specializes in providing innovative storage products for home, businesses and enterprises, presents the HyperLock-WORM File System, a unique security feature of TOS 5 that provides the utmost data protection for very important data files to prevent tampering.

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With TerraMaster HyperLock-WORM File System, data stored within the special file system can be locked within a specific period. Within this period, the data cannot be altered or deleted but can only be read. This unique file system is ideal for storage important data files such as medical cases, court case files, financial securities, company financial data, and other data files that must not be tampered with. WORM feature is based on a file system that not limited by the file service type. Thus, it is suitable for most common file services. Aside from tampering and deletion, the TerraMaster HyperLock-WORM File System also protects data from malicious attacks including ransomwares, viruses, and malwares.

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