Chris Ramseyer

You will hear a lot about Phison's upcoming PS5008-E8 NVMe controller over the next two months. The next step on the ladder is a pair of new controllers that will support QLC NAND technology.

FMS was a hot mess this year due to the combined forces of fire and water, so we just brought the Phison E8 reference design SSD home for testing. Phison's partners should have this low-cost NVMe SSD available next month for less than the Intel 600p.

WD's My Cloud series is like a NAS for your phone, and your life. The system provides access to your data from the internet through secure tunnels that you can also share with your friends and family.

The biggest storage news out of Computex was the emergence of new quad NVMe adapter cards coming from motherboard manufacturers. Today we spotted the adapter from Asus and expect a retail release soon.

We learned exclusively that Chinese flash device manufacturer Longsys has acquired the Lexar assets from Micron, which gives the manufacturing giant a retail name to enter the U.S. market.

MicroSD is the de facto storage media for drones, phones and gaming consoles. Today SanDisk announced the new Ultra MicroSDXC UHS-I card with a massive 400GB capacity size.

Tucked in the back of the Microsemi booth we found Toshiba's BiCS Gen 3 768Gbit NAND running. With the show floor closed due to a fire Microsemi gets the credit for showing the first working QLC.

Three words to gain your attention: FASTEST CONSUMER SSD. SMI displayed four new NVMe controllers at Flash Memory Summit 2017, and one of them is the fastest we've ever tested.

Adata released its latest NVMe 1.2 SSD, the XPG SX9000, with the hope of catering to "gamers and PC overclockers."

Samsung launched the new Portable SSD T5 today. This is the first retail product with 64-layer V-NAND technology and the company's third product in the Portable SSD series. The new product doesn't cost less than the previous gen or add more capacity.

Retail pricing for solid-state drives will remain steady for most of 2018 as we see it now. This would be a great time for fab companies to separate from smaller companies offering products but other markets will make that difficult.

A fire torched the Innodisk booth at FMS this morning. No one was hurt, but the show floor is temporarily closed.

Samsung has a ten-year road map, and it starts with a massive 128TB QLC SSD announcement, updated Z-SSD using optimized MLC, and a leak about the successor to the 960 series.

Toshiba just announced its 3rd generation BG Series product. The new BG3 gets help from BiCS FLASH with 64 layers and an innovative technology called Host Memory Buffer to smooth the performance of this single package SSD.

It might be the Threadripper, but over the last few days we've spotted enough information to call it the Threadleaker. Word is the new enthusiast platform with the most PCI Express lanes can't combine NVMe SSDs in a bootable array.

Toshiba announced new OCZ TR200 entry-level SSD with BiCS FLASH at ChinaJoy today. The new drive will make an appearance at GamesCom in August and reviews will come by Q4. This is Toshiba's first retail SSD to use the new 3D memory technology.

Lite-On partners with Phison for a low-cost NVMe solution based on the PS5007-E7 controller and Toshiba 15nm MLC NAND. The new drive ships with a removable heatsink, an industry first, and looks great.

Today we see the future of client storage first hand with the Toshiba XG5 NVMe SSD featuring 64-layer BiCS TLC NAND.