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Fourth Plugfest Shows Broad Ecosystem Support for NVM Express

July 29, 2015

WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NVM Express, Inc., the organization that developed the NVM Express specification for accessing solid-state drives (SSDs) on a PCI Express (PCIe) bus, has completed its fourth NVM Express Plugfest.

This event, which took place June 8-11 at the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Lab (IOL) in Durham, New Hampshire, was an opportunity for NVMe implementers to test the interoperability of their products. The program ensures conformance to the NVMe specification and establishes confidence that products will work...

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HGST Ships NVM Express™ Compliant Solid-State Drives With Industry-Leading Performance For Cloud And Enterprise Applications

April 15, 2015

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- 2015 Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo (Booth #202) – Helping the world harness the power of data, HGST (@HGSTStorage), a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), today announced it is shipping its NVMe compliant Ultrastar SN100 Series PCIe SSDs – the industry's highest-performing NVMe compliant SSDs. Ideally suited for mission-critical data center workloads, including scale-out databases powering today's largest online and cloud services, the HGST SN100 series enables businesses to achieve a...

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BER test method uses real data

March 2, 2015

Today's methods for BER (bit-error-rate) testing of high-speed serial links such as PCIe and SATA rely on predetermined patterns that don't represent real-world situations. These patterns use a defined amount of jitter sent through a precise channel from a DUT's transmitter to its receiver; the DUT runs in a loopback state. Obtaining a valid BER measurement requires at least a trillion bits. The BER measurement is difficult to perform because of the test equipment needed and the setup to properly...

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Modernization of mobile storage

February 24, 2015

At the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), we are fortunate to be able to follow technology developments in a number of areas, and watch as they go from sketches on a whiteboard to actual shipping products.

Sometimes these developments happen in their own bubbles, other times there are not so coincidental coincidences, where several industries are able to take advantage of technology originally developed for one community. We may be watching that happen right now as technologies...

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New consumer Intel 750 NVMe SSD pops up in UNH-IOL compatibility list

February 3, 2015

UNH-IOL has announced during the third NVM Express Interoperability Plugfest that twelve products were added to the UNH-IOL (University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab) NVMe 1.1b Integrators List. One item on the list that is sure to interest the enthusiast crowd is the Intel 750 SSD. News of the Intel 750 cropped up in a leaked roadmap, with release of the code-named 'August Ridge' product scheduled for Q4 of 2014. Of course, this time has passed.

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UNH-IOL adds 12 Devices to Integrators List at Third NVM Express Interoperability Plugfest

January 26, 2015

DURHAM, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, today announced that the third NVM Express Interoperability Plugfest, in cooperation with the NVM Express Organization, led to the successful listing of twelve products to the UNH-IOL’s NVMe Integrators List 1.1b. Products from HGST, Intel, Marvell, Samsung, and OCZ are now included on the Integrators List which serves as the industry’s resource on validated products that...

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OCZ Z-Drive 6000 NVMe PCIe SSD can do 3 GB per second

January 12, 2015

For a definite 'whaaat ?' moment check this out. Over at CES OCZ has put some cool stuff on display, though Enterprise datacenter oriented this little 3000 MB/sec performing puppy caught our attention.

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OCZ Storage Solutions Z-Drive 6000 NVMe SSD on display at CES 2015

January 9, 2015

CES 2015 -OCZ Storage Solutions displayed the Z-Drive 6000 NVMe SSD in their suite at CES 2015. The Z-Drive 6000 sports speeds of 3,000 MB/s for sequential read and 2,000 MB/s for sequential write workloads. Random reads weigh in at an outstanding 700,000 IOPS, and random writes are equally impressive at 175,000 IOPS. The Z-Drive 6000 will provide 1-3 DWPD, which is becoming the standard for most datacenter SSDs, largely due to increased density. The Z-Drive 6000 utilizes the...

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OCZ Storage Solutions Z-Drive 6000 SSD earns NVMe 1.1b certification

December 16, 2014

The world of NVMe is expanding at a rapid clip. More devices are becoming certified every week that support the optimized register interface, which radically boosts performance with non-volatile memory devices of all flavors. As outlined in our Defining NVMe Article, NVMe delivers on its promises and has the potential to revolutionize how we address flash storage.

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Emerging NVM Express Spec Has Busy Year

December 15, 2014

TORONTO – NVM Express Inc. has been busy since its incorporation in March 2014.

Established as a working group under the guidance of Intel, it released the first NVM Express specification in March 2011. It outlines a standardized register interface, command, and feature set for PCIe-based storage technologies such as SSDs, designed specifically for nonvolatile memory. It is optimized for high performance and low latency, scaling from client to enterprise segments.

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