Sanjay Talreja, General Manager of Solidigm’s Client Storage Business Unit, said the P44 Pro series combines cutting-edge NAND flash technology with its own powerful software solutions to give users the high performance they need in demanding applications.

As Solidigm’s and the market’s premier enthusiast-grade SSD, the P44 Pro not only features fast boot and loading performance but also provides fast access for gamers and content creators.

Also features excellent energy efficiency, minimizing throttling caused by high power/high heat for consistent peak performance.

Plus the free Solidigm Synergy software optimizes P44 Pro performance and reduces the gap between host and storage (download here).

Wallace Santos, CEO and Founder of MAINGEAR, said: Solidigm SSDs provide an amazing gaming experience, incredible speed and reliability, making them the company’s first choice for pre-assembled desktops.

Following are the main features of Solidigm P44 Pro:

"● Built for the modern PC gaming experience

-- Supports faster startup, loading and boosting to the next level

● Ideal for creating content on modern workstations

-- Supports quick importing of assets, converting file types, launching design tools and exporting projects

● Designed for both power and thermal efficiency

-- Optimized for energy savings and thermal efficiency, delivering consistent performance with minimal constraints.

--Ensure long-term gaming performance experience without worrying about performance loss due to excessive power/high heat.

● Enhanced durability and reliability

-- A high-endurance design that allows users to write more data over the life of the SSD, complemented by a very low misread rate.

-- With a limited warranty of up to five years, the P44 Pro delivers consistent high drive performance with hundreds of gigabytes of writes per day.

● Compatible with Sony PS5 game console

-- P44 Pro meets/exceeds Sony's announced PS5 M.2 SSD specs"

Finally, the Solidigm P44 Pro will be available in late October, and the capacities of each gear are as follows:

"● 512 GB -- $79.99

● 1 TB -- $129.99

● 2 TB -- $234.99"

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According to Samsung officials, the Samsung 990 PRO Series Samsung features new V-NAND technology and a newly launched in-house controller that delivers ultra-high speeds in the PCIe 4.0 interface. The SSDs deliver sequential read and write speeds of up to 7,450 MB/s and 6,900 MB/s respectively, and random read and write speeds of up to 1,400K and 1,550K IOPS respectively. 55% higher random read and write performance is achieved with the 990 PRO compared to the 980 PRO.

Samsung’s newly designed controller significantly improves the SSD’s power efficiency by up to 50% compared to the 980 PRO. The 990 PRO also offers an additional layer of thermal control with its RGB lighting adding a stylish touch.

Here are the 990 PRO sequential and random read and write speeds as tested by External PC and compared to other brands.

The 990 PRO is expected to be released globally in November this year. The retail price of the 1TB model is $179 (about 1224.36 yuan), and the retail price of the 2TB version is $309 (about 2113.56 yuan). Next year A 4TB model will be available.

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Samsung 990 PRO series products use PCIe 4.0 interface, and the industry’s general perception is that this product will be able to improve the transfer speed of the new PCIe standard PCI Express 5.0, but in fact, Samsung Electronics still maintain the 990 Pro PCI Express 4.0 standard.

In this regard, Samsung Electronics explained, “This is not a product development or technical issues, but simply a judgment based on market conditions.”

Samsung says the newly designed SSD controller is significantly more energy efficient, with a 50 percent improvement compared to the 980 PRO. In addition, the 990 PRO adds a nickel coating to the controller and uses a tabbed heatsink on the drive to ensure stable heat dissipation, while the 990 PRO (cooling version) will also offer an additional layer of heatsink and support for RGB lighting textures.

PCI Express 5.0 is a new standard being released by PCI-SIG in May 2019. It doubles the transfer rate again compared to 4.0, which can now transfer up to approximately 2 GB/s per lane, and Micron’s previous demonstration of 5.0 solid state sequential read and write up to 10 GB/s.

The Samsung 990 PRO will go on sale globally in November this year, with the 1TB model for $179 (about RMB 1224.36) and the 2TB version for $309 (about RMB 2113.56), with the heatsink model being $20 more expensive, and the 4TB model to be launched next year.

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(From: Solidigm official website)

However, for the OEM market, Solidigm’s flexible design also supports the availability of the M.2 2230 / 2242 form factor. At the same time, to ensure the best user experience, Solidigm has also invested heavily in storage software.

As an optional but highly recommended Windows tool suite, the company has built Synergy software that incorporates storage drivers and a powerful drive health monitoring tool (free download).

The Solidigm storage driver intelligently identifies high-priority data and keeps important items in the cache by monitoring usage patterns.

In addition to enabling faster reads when drives are filled and supporting host cache management, Sanjay Talreja, general manager of Solidigm’s Client Products and Solutions Division, said.

“Whether it’s playing the latest games, managing your business, or editing your family photos, the cost-effective P41 Plus Series SSDs deliver an excellent experience with the support of innovative software”.

Finally, as the brand’s first SSD product since December 2021, the P41 Plus underscores its commitment to delivering an industry-leading portfolio of storage solutions, including high-performance SSDs, to the client, cloud and data center markets.

For those interested, look for Solidigm demonstrating its innovative solutions at the Flash Memory Summit (FMS 2022) in Santa Clara, CA, August 2-4, at booth #509.

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AliCloud’s “Shadowless Cloud PC” supports enterprises to quickly realize home office

CK Storage PE310 series adopts the enterprise mainstream 2.5-inch U.2 interface (the current market share has exceeded 60%), supports PCIe 4.0, NVMe 1.4 protocol, flash memory continues to use its own third-generation 3D architecture crystal stack 2.0 (Xtacking 2.0), supporting 7×24 uninterrupted operation.

There are two types of capacity: read-intensive, available in 1.92TB, 3.84TB, and 7.68TB, and mixed-application, available in 1.6TB, 3.2TB, and 6.4TB.

Performance, 4K random read and write steady-state speed up to 1000K IOPS, 380K IOPS, and support intelligent scheduling mechanism, can be timely processing of different I/O, effectively solve the I/O congestion, to ensure the quality of service, performance consistency of I/O, but did not disclose the sequential read and write speed.

Power consumption, the maximum working only 14W, 1.92TB version is only 12W, and built-in 8-level performance – power management mechanism, flexible and elastic calculation, can be for different scenarios of energy management.

In terms of technology, it supports LDPC error correction, full path data protection, enhanced power-down protection (PLP), AES self-encryption, enhanced security erasure (Sanitize), etc. It also supports Telemetry standard interface, which can obtain device logs through standard nvmecli commands to reduce operation and maintenance costs and improve access efficiency.

CK Storage PE310 series is now available.

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The K1942VK018 main control also uses a different core, not ARM but open-source RISC-V architecture, TSMC 28nm HPC + process foundry, support for 3D MLC, TLC flash memory, the future may also support QLC flash memory, including the Kai Man, Micron and even China Changjiang storage flash memory.

The SSD using this master is produced by GS Nanotech in Russia and supports PCIe 4.0 x4 and NVMe 1.4, with a maximum capacity of 16TB, sequential read and write speeds of over 1500MB/s, and 4K random read and write of 200K and 150K IOPS respectively.

However, as a PCIe 4.0 hard drive, the performance of 1.5GB/s is obviously too low, and the published test results are even lower, with only 1GB/s read and less than 500MB/s write, so there are obviously many problems to solve.

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