At the Consumer Electronics Show 2019 (CES 2019), Western Digital Corporation today unveiled several innovative solutions, allowing consumers to capture, organize and share their personal content with extreme speed and simplicity. In addition to new and upcoming portable SSDs and a USB drive cloud backup service, the company is demonstrating an ultra-high capacity flash drive prototype – all of which put consumers in charge of their photos, videos and files, enabling them to store more content and access it on the go any time inspiration strikes.

We continue to evolve our products to help consumers find new ways of enjoying the content that matters the most,” said David Ellis, vice president of product marketing, Western Digital. “Our latest offerings reinforce Western Digital’s commitment to delivering a wide range of personal storage solutions that offer ruggedness, speed, reliability and ease of use.”

Western Digital is showcasing its latest and upcoming SanDisk and WD brand offerings at CES 2019 which include:

• SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD: SanDisk brand’s high-performing portable SSD, with estimated availability in Spring 2019, will deliver blazing-fast sustained performance at up to 1GB/s transfer speeds* and will seek to deliver IP55-rated durability; ideal for creative professionals who want to move massive files quickly and do real-time editing directly from the drive.
• My Passport Go: The latest addition to WD’s award-winning My Passport family, the My Passport Go SSD features up to 1TB of portable SSD storage in a durable, convenient form factor that includes an integrated cable and rubber bumper. Built to travel, the My Passport Go is great for anyone looking for SSD performance on the go.
• SanDisk Flashback: Available for two of SanDisk’s popular USB drives, Flashback is a new cloud back up service that creates an online copy of USB drive content, so consumers can easily view, search and share their files even if their drive is lost or left at home.
• SanDisk 4TB USB-C Prototype: Continuing its legacy of technology milestones, the company will demonstrate the world’s highest-capacity portable flash drive. It’s a whopping 4TB of flash memory in an impressively compact form factor, currently in prototype form.

TEAMGROUP, the world’s leading memory brand, today joins forces with motherboard leader ASRock and release the cobranded Phantom Gaming RGB solid state drive and RGB memory. Both of them are certified and strictly tested by ASRock Phantom Gaming and their lighting effects can be both synchronized with motherboard and officially presented in CES 2019. The read/write speed performance of T-FORCE DELTA Phantom Gaming RGB SSD(5V) is fully evolved, you can upgrade your computer easily; T-FORCE XCALIBUR Phantom Gaming RGB luminous memory uses high quality OEM IC chips, and also has an eye-catching 120° wide angle RGB lighting range. The easy overclocking feature also receives top recommendations from gamers.

T-FORCE DELTA Phantom Gaming RGB SSD(5V) is designed with Phantom Gaming elements. The killer look is also attractive in a cool way. In addition to the colorful and diverse lighting effects, the maximum read speed is also up to 560MB per second, and it is compatible with motherboards that have 5V ADD headers. Up to 1T of capacity allows consumers to upgrade the overall performance quickly. T-FORCE DELTA Phantom Gaming RGB SSD(5V)’s built-in smart algorithm management mechanism and the Wear-Leveling technology are able to ensure operation efficiency and enhance the reliability of data transfer. It supports Windows TRIM optimization command which can speed up the transfer and write performance. The 3D NAND flash memory chip is durable and shockproof, offering a total protection for your data.

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announces MG08 Series, the industry’s largest capacity 16TB Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD. With 33% more capacity than today’s widely adopted 12TB drives, and 14% more capacity than prior 14TB models, MG08 16TB drives are compatible with the widest range of applications and operating systems, and adapted to mixed random and sequential read and write workloads in both cloud and traditional datacenter environments.

The MG08 Series is Toshiba’s second-generation helium-sealed HDD family, and eighth-generation Enterprise Capacity HDD family. Toshiba has delivered its industry-leading 16TB capacity and improved power efficiency by utilizing the 9-disk helium design, introduced last year in 14TB models, and its own advanced precision laser welding process to ensure the helium remains sealed inside the drive case. The MG08 features 7,200rpm performance, a 550TB per year workload rating, a 2.5 million-hour MTTF, a 512Mib cache buffer, and a choice of SATA and SAS interfaces—all in an industry-standard, 3.5-inch form factor.

PLEXTOR, a leading developer of award-winning solid-state drives (SSDs) and other high-performance digital storage devices, today announced the introduction of its latest line of PCIe and SATA SSDs at this year’s CES.

The new M10Pe PCIe SSD Series offers a new level of speed and performance targeted for all PC gamers and applications intensive users. The new series combines advanced 96-layer 3D NAND flash and industry leading controller to deliver impressive sequential read/write speeds up to 3,200/2,500 MB/s and random read/write speeds up to 410,000/320,000 IOPS.

At CES 2019, LITE-ON Storage, an established leader in the rapidly expanding solid-state drive (SSD) industry, will preview its first storage device series built around emerging Quad-Level Cell (QLC) technology.

The new QLC SATA SSD series is expected to deliver dramatically higher levels of speed, performance and cost effectiveness than current NAND technology and compete with many hard disk drive (HDD) storage offerings. Release of QLC SSD is slated for the second half of 2019.

With the exponential growth of data, information technology (IT) leaders are under pressure to reduce infrastructure costs and increase operational efficiency. Storage accounts for a large portion of overall IT funding. HDD can become a bottleneck in terms of speed, performance, and reliability.

Seagate Technology plc, a world leader in data solutions, today announced an exciting extension of its portfolio with several new models, including new solid state drive offerings at CES 2019. From gung-ho gamers to Instagram gurus, photo-collecting parents, or visionary creatives, Seagate offers the data storage solutions that empower users to live their best digital lives in today’s fast-changing data-heavy landscape.

Today, consumers have more ways than ever to consume content, driving the need to create, distribute and manage data efficiently. According to a recent IDC whitepaper sponsored by Seagate, five billion consumers are currently interacting with data every single day. By 2025, that number will jump to six billion, or 75 percent of the world’s population. Each of those six billion people will have at least one data interaction every 18 seconds, bumping the amount of data created worldwide to 175 zettabytes by 2025. Consumers increasingly need reliable ways to collect, protect, manage and access a good portion of that data, and Seagate’s latest products – including the cutting-edge LaCie® Mobile Drive, LaCie Mobile SSD, Seagate Backup Plus HDDs, FireCuda® 510 and BarraCuda® 510 internal SSDs, and IronWolf® 110 NAS SSD – are designed to fit a variety of data storage needs and digital lifestyles.

CDRLabs kicks off the New Year with another look at Crucial's new NVMe SSD, the P1. This time around, we've reviewed the 500GB version of the drive which combines Silicon Motion's SM2263EN controller with Micron's 3D QLC NAND flash. The P1 is also equipped with an ultra-fast PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 interface and is capable of delivering performance well beyond that of your average SATA 6Gb/s SSD.