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CORSAIR Launches New, Smol, Gen 4 NVMe SSDs

In Brief: CORSAIR has launched a pair of new PCIe Gen 4 M.2 SSDs, with one in particular piquing my interest – the MP600 MINI. Both drives are PCIe Gen4 based, with the larger 2280 form factor MP600 CORE XT coming in at 1, 2 and 4TB capacities, and the smaller MP600 MINI, in the 2230 form factor coming in with a lone 1TB capacity. Per the press release, the MP600 CORE XT (Stop YELLING at me!) features 3D QLC NAND flash, and claims a sustained throughput of up to 5,000MB/sec reads and 4,400MB/sec writes. The MP600 MINI claims up …

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Silverstone at Computex 2018

SFF Network’s COMPUTEX 2018 coverage is sponsored by SilverStone, who’s celebrating 15 years of innovation in SFF and beyond. Click here to check out their website and to learn more about their latest products. Silverstone, the ever present producers of SFF wares, is celebrating their 15th birthday this year. With new, updated and well designed products on display at Computex, what a way to celebrate. From a new Sugo, to new USB devices, new power supplies, all the way to server hardware and hotswap bays. Let’s see what the birthday kid has to show! Walking into the Silverstone booth, we …

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Zotac Launches 10th Anniversary Products

10 years is a big number – not many companies, let alone tech companies, make it that far. ZOTAC is celebrating this birthday, however, and has launched a small range of products. These range from an updated VR Go backpack, to a watercooled GTX1080, all the way to a PCIe SSD. The products are; ZOTAC GTX 1080 ArcticStorm Thermaltake 10 Year Anniversary Edition. A revised PCB delivers 16 power phases, dual BIOS, with BIOS 1 offering a base frequency of 1,657 MHz and BIOS 2 being set at a slightly more conservative 1,632 MHz base clock (with Boost clocks set …

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PCIe 4.0: 300W of slot power (or not) and double the bandwidth!

August 25 Update: Tom’s Hardware was told incorrectly and they’ve updated their article. The maximum slot power will continue to be 75W as it is currently with PCIe 3.0 but the total allowed power could maybe increase. The extra wattage will still come from PCIe power connectors on the card like it is today. Tom’s Hardware had the opportunity to chat with Richard Solomon, VP of PCI-SIG (the group responsible for the PCI Express standard), about the upcoming PCI Express 4.0 standard. The new standard is still a work in progress but they’re expecting to finalize it by the end …

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Zotac Launches PCIe SSD

CES 2016: ZOTAC unveiled its upcoming premium PCIe SSD. Designed for high performance, with sequential transfer rates around 2 GB/s, the drive is based on a Phison processor, combined with Toshiba 10 nm MLC NAND flash memory. The half-height add-on card features an integrated heatspreader, with a back-plate. The PCIe x4 Gen 3 card is bootable. Thoughts? Discuss them in the forum.