SanDisk
Western Digital this week is previewing the industry's first 4 TB SD card. The device is being showcased at the NAB trade show for broadcasters and content creators and will be released commercially in 2025. Western Digital's SanDisk Extreme Pro SDUC 4 TB SD card complies with the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity standard (SDUC, which enables up to 128TB). The card uses the Ultra High Speed-I (UHS-I) interface and is rated for speed Class 10, therefore supporting a minimum speed of 10 MB/s and a maximum data transfer rate of 104 MB/s when working in UHS104 (SDR104) mode (there is a catch about performance, but more on that later). WD's SD card is also rated to meet Video Speed Class V30, supporting a minimal sequential...
Market Trends Q2 2016: SSD Shipments Up 41.2% YoY, PC Sales Up on Q1
Sales of SSDs in the first quarter of 2016 were up 41.2% year-over-year, based on findings from TrendFocus*, a storage market tracking company. Shipments of all types of SSDs...
24 by Anton Shilov on 10/5/2016
Western Digital Shows Off Prototype 1TB SDXC Card at Photokina 2016
In recent years we have seen the development of 3D NAND push up the capacity and push down the prices of all sorts of flash devices, from SSDs to...
25 by Ryan Smith on 9/20/2016
Western Digital to Use 3D ReRAM as Storage Class Memory for Special-Purpose SSDs
At the Flash Memory Summit this week, Western Digital announced that it intends to use 3D Resistive RAM (ReRAM) as storage class memory (SCM) for its future special-purpose ultra-fast...
38 by Anton Shilov on 8/12/2016
Western Digital Rolls Out 256 GB SanDisk microSDXC Memory Cards
Coinciding with the Mobile World Congress at Shanghai, SanDisk owner Western Digital is introducing two new microSD memory cards that can store up to 256 GB of data. The...
30 by Anton Shilov on 6/28/2016
SanDisk Extreme 510 Portable SSD Capsule Review
Rapid advancements in flash technology has coincided with the rise of USB 3.0 as an ubiquitous high-speed interface on computers. This has led to the appearance of small and...
7 by Ganesh T S on 6/23/2016
SanDisk Unveils New Generation of USB Type-C Flash Drives
Last year SanDisk released its first-gen USB flash drives featuring two types of connectors: USB-A and USB-C in a bid to address the growing market of devices featuring USB...
25 by Anton Shilov on 6/1/2016
Market Trends Q1 2016: Shipments of SSDs Up 32.7% Year-over-Year
Shipments of SSDs in the first quarter of 2016 were up 32.7% compared to the same period a year ago, according to findings of TrendFocus*, a storage market tracking...
11 by Anton Shilov on 5/25/2016
Western Digital’s Acquisition of SanDisk Officially Closes
Western Digital announced on Tuesday that the Chinese authorities have approved its acquisition of SanDisk. The regulatory approval from China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) in connection with the planned...
18 by Anton Shilov on 5/16/2016
The SanDisk X400 1TB SSD Review
The SanDisk X400 is the flagship model of SanDisk's business/OEM SSD lineup. As the successor to the X300 and X300s, the X400 continues the strategy of combining premium features...
41 by Billy Tallis on 5/6/2016
SanDisk Announces Z410 Client SSD
SanDisk has introduced a new low-end drive to their line of client SSDs targeted at business and OEM customers. The Z410 is positioned closely to Z400s but is not...
35 by Billy Tallis on 4/27/2016
SanDisk Extreme 900 USB 3.1 Gen 2 Portable SSD Review
SanDisk launched the Extreme 900 SSD at Computex 2015. The claim to fame was the availability of almost 2TB of flash in a bus-powered enclosure with a USB 3.1...
31 by Ganesh T S on 4/11/2016
SanDisk Ultra +Cloud 64GB + 64GB Flash Drive Review
USB flash drives (UFDs) are a dime a dozen in the current market. In order to stand out in the crowd, manufacturers have adopted a two-pronged approach. While one...
23 by Ganesh T S on 2/18/2016
SanDisk Updates DAS Lineup at CES
Billy and I met with SanDisk at their CES 2016 suite. While Billy talked to them about their internal SSD efforts, I checked out the updates to their direct-attached...
2 by Ganesh T S on 1/12/2016
SanDisk Announces X400 Client SSD for OEMs
As CES gets underway, SanDisk is announcing the X400 SSD as the successor to the X300 and X300s and as the higher-performance counterpart to the Z400s. The new X400...
7 by Billy Tallis on 1/5/2016
SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSD Capsule Review
The last few years have seen rapid advancements in flash technology and the rise of USB 3.0 as an ubiquitous high-speed interface on computers. These have led to the...
22 by Ganesh T S on 12/11/2015
Western Digital To Acquire SanDisk
Western Digital announced today that they have entered in to an agreement to acquire SanDisk for approximately $19 billion. Western Digital is one of the few remaining hard drive...
35 by Billy Tallis on 10/21/2015
SanDisk Announces Second Generation CloudSpeed Ultra SATA Enterprise SSD
At Flash Memory Summit today SanDisk announced the second generation of their CloudSpeed Ultra enterprise drive. This is the sibling to the gen. 2 CloudSpeed Eco that was announced...
7 by Billy Tallis on 8/11/2015
Toshiba and SanDisk Announce 48-layer 256Gbit TLC 3D NAND
This week Toshiba and SanDisk are announcing a new milestone in their joint development of flash memory. Back in March Toshiba announced a 48-layer 3D NAND technology that they...
28 by Billy Tallis on 8/4/2015
SanDisk Announces iNAND 7232: eMMC 5.1, 128GB, and SLC/TLC
Today at MWC Shanghai, SanDisk announced a follow-up to their iNAND 7132 eMMC solution, the iNAND 7232. For those that are unfamiliar with the iNAND 7132, I would refer...
25 by Joshua Ho on 7/13/2015
SanDisk Announces 2TB USB 3.1 External SSD
SanDisk is announcing the availability of a host of external flash drives at Computex 2015. Two of them are being marketed as external portable SSDs with a Type-C interface...
10 by Ganesh T S on 6/1/2015
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