Note - use our deals topic after reading posts below to save as much as possible on new SSD.

The IronWolf 510 SSD meets leading top NAS manufacturer requirements of one drive write per day (DWPD), allowing multi-user NAS environments to do more with their data with lasting performance. The IronWolf 510 SSD is reliable with 1.8 million hours mean time between failures (MTBF) in a PCIe form factor, two years of Rescue Data Recovery Services, and a five-year limited warranty. IronWolf Health Management helps analyze drive health and will soon be available on compatible NAS systems.

“We are the first to provide a purpose-built M.2 NVMe for NAS that not only goes beyond SATA performance metrics but also provides 3x the endurance when compared to the competition. This meets the required endurance spec of one DWPD which our NAS partners expect for their customers,” said Matt Rutledge, senior vice president, devices. “Because of such high endurance, our customers are getting a tough SSD for small business and creative professional NAS environments.”

Meiji Chang, General Manager of QNAP Systems, Inc., commented, “We’re thrilled to see new additions to Seagate’s solid-state drive line for NAS which caters specifically to SSD requirements in the network storage segment enhancing performance and endurance. This enables QNAP to build more performance-driven and reliable systems and applications, including all-flash arrays, on which our users can rely.”

The IronWolf 510 SSD PCIe Gen3 x4, NVMe 1.3 is available in 240GB, 480GB, 960GB, and 1.92TB capacities and is compatible with leading NAS vendors to provide server storage for small and medium-sized businesses and creative professionals that use NAS.

Combine IronWolf Hard Drives with IronWolf SSD’s and benefit from ultra-high capacity, ultra-high endurance, and high-speed caching.

Available now, Seagate’s IronWolf 510 SSD retail for:

• $119.99 – 240GB
• $169.99 – 480GB
• $319.99 – 960GB
• $539.99 – 1.92TB

This thing cost 3x just for mention of "Creative Professionals", nice.

Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, announced today its new series of 'Canvas' Flash memory cards. Canvas will offer three different variations in both SD and microSD cards: Select, Go, and React to suit consumers' needs.

With the Canvas line of memory cards, users and creators can choose the best storage medium available. The cards are designed to provide the reliability, flexibility and performance needed for any project. Along with tested durability, users will have the confidence to bring Canvas cards wherever their imagination takes them.

The Canvas card series include:

Canvas Select:

• Designed to be reliable, making it ideal for filming in HD and shooting hi-res photos on either point and shoot cameras or smartphones.
• Class 10 UHS-I speeds up to 80MB/s read.
• SD in capacities up to 128GB and microSD up to 256GB available now.

Canvas Go:

• For on-the-go shooters making it ideal for filming life's adventures in 1080P or even 4K on DSLR, drone or action camera.
• Class 10 UHS-I U3 speeds up to 90MB/s read, 45MB/s write.
• SD in capacities up to 512GB and microSD up to 128GB.

Canvas React:

• Designed to be as fast as you are, capturing 4K video or taking stunning burst-mode photos on DSLR, mirrorless camera, or smartphone.
• Class 10 UHS-I U3 speeds1 up to 100MB/s read, 80MB/s write.
• SD in capacities2 up to 256GB and microSD up to 128GB.

"We are always determined to create new and improved storage solutions that meet our customers' needs," said Annette Chan, Flash card business manager, Kingston. "Canvas Flash cards are durable, high in storage capacities and have fast transfer speeds to capture all of life's memories anywhere."

Canvas Flash cards are backed by a lifetime warranty, free technical support and legendary Kingston reliability. For more information visit http://www.kingston.com .

Specs

Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch Specs:

• Capacity - 2TB/1TB/500GB
•  USB 3.2 (Gen 2, 10Gbps) with backward compatibility, Up to 1,050 MB/s
• AES 256-bit hardware data encryption
• Password Protection S/W, Fingerprint Recognition
• Samsung Portable SSD Software 1.01
• Black & Silver
• USB type-C-to-C, USB type-C-to-A
• 3-year limited warranty
• 85 x 57 x 8.0mm (3.3 x 2.2 x 0.3 inches)
• Weight - 58g (2oz)

• Incomparably fast speed, designed for professional and industrial use, supports future evolution of digital devices
• High reliability in extreme conditions thanks to TOUGH performance and smart software
• New Sony CFexpress card reader, MRW-G1, takes full advantage of Sony CFexpress Type B's high-speed performance
• The Sony CFexpress Type B memory card and the CFexpress Card Reader will be in the market in early summer 2019

Sony announced the development of the CFexpress Type B memory card (CEB-G128), a new ultra-fast next generation memory card2 that is ideal for professional and industrial use. With its super-fast speed of up to 1700MB/s (read) along with highly reliable toughness, this memory card supports the future evolution of digital devices.

Enhancing Sony's high performance, value-added memory card line-up, the CFexpress Type B is designed based on a new specification which adopts the latest interface, PCIe®3 Gen3, standardised by the CompactFlash Association.

The Sony CFexpress Type B memory card offers a 128GB capacity, with higher capacity models of 256 GB and 512 GB planned for the future.

Incomparably fast

The Sony CFexpress Type B memory card is around 3 times faster than Sony's fastest CFast memory card (with 530MB/s read speed). With a write speed of up to 1480MB/s, this card meets future requirement needs for secure industry data-recording or requirements from professionals to capture hi-resolution images or high-bitrate video.

With an ultra-fast read speed of up to 1700MB/s, even large-sized data files can be transferred quickly, when compared to existing memory cards. For example, when making copies or backing up large-sized data from multiple memory cards, transfer time will be dramatically reduced. This greatly improves work efficiency.

The new CFexpress Card Reader, MRW-G1, is optimised for Sony CFexpress Type B memory card and takes full advantage of the card's fast read speed. This reader is also compatible with Sony XQD card G series and M series.

TOUGH performance

The Sony CFexpress Type B memory card has superior strength, surpassing the CFexpress standard by a factor of three, being able to withstand 70N of force in bend, and five times greater withstanding falls from up to 5m high.

The card is also temperature proof, X-ray proof, anti-static and has a UV guard so it can perfectly support usage in tricky or tough environments.

Peace of mind

Media Scan Utility and Memory Card File Rescue are available as a free download to Sony CFexpress card users.

Media Scan Utility is PC software that automatically scans your Sony CFexpress memory card every time you connect it to a PC via your MRW-G1 card reader4. The software keeps you informed of the condition of your card and lets you know if you're nearing or have reached the flash memory limit.

Memory Card File Rescue eradicates every photographer's worst nightmare -- deleting photos accidentally and losing your precious work. The software recovers accidentally deleted files including RAW or high-resolution images and videos, so your work is safe from whatever obstacles are thrown your way.

The Sony CFexpress Type B memory card and the CFexpress MRW-G1 Card Reader will be on the market in early summer 2019.

Some manufacturer makes them for Manfrotto, but no one knows who.

Read speeds are rated at 280/250 MB/S for the SD memory cards, 90 MB/S for the Micro SD memory cards and 160/130 MB/S for the CF.

Prices

• 64GB at ¥17,820 or around $160 (pure profit is around $110)
• 120GB at ¥29,160 or around ~$262 (pure profit is around $200)

Top perspective - cards use same 3D NAND and similar controllers to SATA drives (usually they try to make more channels or use TLC in MLS mode).

And 120GB SSD with same speed sells for $23-28. Let's assume worst case - that they run TLC memory in SLC only mode, this produces retail cost around $70 (as it is 3x RAM chips) for 120GB drive.
I am sure they do not use such approach, as it is cheaper to increase channels or run memory in MLC mode.

Sources tell that single slot and XQD one was among top Sony demands to for Nikon to get their sensors.
Sony will also get good share of all Nikon profits from cards via unusual sharing scheme.

SSD is planned to be available in 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities, and this drive will make use of 96-layer TLC-NAND.

Specs

• 8x SATA bays made for 3.5 or 2.5 HDDs or SSDs
• up to 112TB with 14TB HDDs
• Thunderbolt 3 ports
• Has DisplayPort
• RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10
• 300w power supply
• 266 × 184 × 315mm
• 5,3 kg
• $1600

best regards

Gabriel Goubet

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gnarbox/gnarbox-20-ssd-rugged-backup-device-for-your-camer

As the first and only company shipping PCIe® Gen4x4 NVMe SSD solutions, Phison Electronics is the industry leader in enabling high-performance computing for bandwidth-hungry applications.  In developing these solutions, Phison is ushering in a new era for applications expected to meet the demand for increasingly faster and higher-definition digital experiences.

The PCIe 4.0 standard offers double the data transfer rate over the prior PCIe 3.0 version. The increased data transfer rate, signal reliability and integrity of PCIe Gen4 enables technology solutions providers with the ability to deliver greater performance, additional flexibility and lower latency to a multitude of applications, including PC, gaming, mobile, storage and networking.

"There is continued pressure in the industry to improve the performance of computing systems to support the applications that end users are most interested in. PCIe 4.0 offers manufacturers a way to meet these consumer demands," said Chris Kilburn, corporate vice president and general manager, Client Channel, AMD. "AMD is delighted to work with Phison to raise the bar by introducing first-to-market solutions. Through sound engineering and design, we are working together to deliver the experiences our customers demand."

According to CEO and Co-Founder of Liqid, Sumit Puri, "PCIe Gen4 will unleash the performance capabilities required for next generation data centric applications, including artificial intelligence and 5G edge computing. The LQD4500 provides 32TB of capacity and a PCIe Gen4x16 interface that enables over 24GB/s of throughput and 4 million IOPS. This impressive performance is only possible by aggregating multiple Phison E16 NVMe controllers into a single device. The Phison E16 provides industry leading performance, capacity and NVMe features required to build the PCIe Gen4 enabled data center of the future.  Liqid is excited that the Phison E16 is now powering the fastest storage in the world, the LQD4500."

Phison's first-to-market position in this emerging space is due to the company's decades of experience in memory technology, excellence in engineering and innovation in flash memory products.  Whereas others have yet to debut their Gen4 solutions, Phison has developed a package of products to address multiple sockets within the consumer space.

Among its portfolio of PCIe Gen4x4 NVMe products currently available or planned for release within the next year are:

• PS5016-E16 -- a high-end controller that can easily reach speeds of 5GB/s sequential reads and 4.4GB/s sequential writes -- the fastest sequential reads and writes for a single M.2 SSD
• PS5019-E19T -- offering low power controllers for mainstream drives, delivering best-in-class power savings and reducing cooling needs in data centers for all-day computing (Available 4Q 2019)
• PS5018-E18 -- builds on the success of E16 to deliver even higher levels of performance with speeds of 7GB/s reads and writes (Available 2Q 2020) in advanced 12nm process node.

The entire portfolio of Phison PCIe Gen4 solutions is designed for quality by providing end-to-end data path protection, dynamic SLC cache support and integrated security support for the latest encryption standards.

Phison PCIe Gen4x4 NVMe controllers are currently shipping in a number of technology partners' products, enabling them to differentiate their own best-in-class solutions.  These solutions provide users with advances in 8K high-definition gaming capabilities, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning and others.

"After several years since the announcement of the standard, the era of PCIe 4.0 solutions is upon us and Phison is at the forefront of this movement with our portfolio of Gen4x4 solutions," said K.S. Pua, CEO of Phison Electronics.  "We pride ourselves with our long history of innovation supporting emerging technologies.  From doubling transfer rates, to improving power consumption to increasing performance, Phison-based SSD solutions allow our integration partners to deliver the next-generation PC, gaming and storage systems needed to satisfy increasing consumer demand."

Phison is showcasing its lineup of PCIe Gen4 SSD solutions, including the public debut of its E19 controller, at the Flash Memory Summit (FMS), August 6-8 in Booth No. 219 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.  The booth will also host demonstrations of Phison-empowered solutions from technology partners Liqid and Cigent.

Original price $389 dropped to $284 (2.5" version with cable is $269) and can go lower soon.

https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Optane-900P-280GB-XPoint/dp/B0772XB3MY/

Yes, you can get NVMe SSD with high sustained write read/speed, but you can't get SSD drive with such high random read and such low latency. And such things can be most important in real life.

Pros

• High Random Read And Write Performance
• High Performance At Low Queue Depths
• High Simultaneous Read And Write Performance
• High Read And Write Performance At Small Capacity Points
• High Performance Maintained As The Drive Fills
• Heavy Workloads That Cause Drive Wear And Require High Endurance

Especially with heavy apps ala Adobe and Resolve you get different feeling.

Note that small 32GB M.2 Optane drives can be got locally now for ala $25-35 and are ideal drive for editing individual H.264/HEVC small projects.

Also suggest good software - Teracopy, can just set editing path on such drive as favorite and copy with one click from any NVMe SSD.

https://www.codesector.com/teracopy

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33017391503.html

Now price is $20,34-$2 select coupon-$3 general coupon

Very fast and standard AHCI controller (means that you do not depend on proprietary drivers!)

• World’s toughest SD card is bend proof and drop proof
• World’s first one-piece molding structure for strength and hardness
• Ribless and switchless design ensures there are no fragile components
• World’s fastest read speed up to 300MB/s and write speed up to 299MB/s
• Waterproof and dustproof world-class ratings of IPX8and IP6X respectively
• Keep your work safe with the SD Scan Utility and File Rescue Software

Sony today announced a brand new innovation in storage media with the launch of the “SF-G series TOUGH specification”UHS-II SD card. Addressing the needs of photographers who are reliant upon their photographs remaining safe when their SD cards are removed from the camera, the new SF-G series TOUGH specification range combines the world’s fastest read and write speeds with an ultra-rugged design that is bend proof to 180N, and drop proof to 5 meters. For photographers who are fighting against the elements to get the perfect shot, the SF-G series TOUGH specification range of SD cards are also waterproof with an IPX8 rating and dustproof with an IP6X rating.

The new SF-G series TOUGH specification range of SD cards are 18 times stronger than the SD standard[ix] with world’s first monolithic structure (one-piece molding, no empty space in the card) and materials of high-grade hardness, unlike conventional SD cards with a thin, 3-part ensemble. They are protected against typical physical damage that can affect conventional SD cards such as a broken plastic casing, broken data protection lock and broken connector ribs. This has been achieved through a new means that it is the world’s first rib-less SD card with no write protection switch. These developments ensure that the SF-G series TOUGH specification is more resistant to bending and easy to break parts are removed entirely and has been engineered by Sony to deliver the best balance of hardness and toughness. Completely sealed with one-piece molding structure, no water drop, dust or dirt is not allowed to come into the card, meeting highest grade of waterproof (IPX8) and dustproof(IP6X).

Unleash the power of the camera

In an industry trend, driven by Sony, full-frame mirrorless cameras such as the α9 and α7 series are packing in more and more performance in both stills and video performance. These high-end cameras rely on fast memory cards to maximise their performance and with professional photographers now using SD cards more frequently, users are demanding the levels of reliability and durability associated with other professional card types. With the world’s fastest write speed of up to 299MB/s, buffer clearing time is minimised. This allows the photographer to shoot many frames per second and capture the action that they want. The SF-G series TOUGH specification range also supports V90, the highest standard of video speed class, making it an ideal companion for shooting high resolution video.

Furthermore, transferring high capacity photo and video files is made simple with the SF-G series TOUGH specification, thanks to a read speed of up to 300MB/s. This is another world’s fastest which dramatically enhances workflow efficiency after the shooting is all wrapped up. In a further acknowledgement of the practical needs of photographers, the SF-G series TOUGH specification range feature bright yellow banding design, making the card easier to spot in dark shooting conditions.

Ultimate Assurance

SF-G series TOUGH specification SD cards offer a series of further features, designed to give photographers peace of mind. These include an ‘SD Scan Utility’ which allows the user to check that the card is good condition and File Rescue Software[x] which can recover data and photos that might have accidentally been deleted. Furthermore, SF-G series TOUGH specification SD cards are also X-ray proof, magnet proof, anti-static, temperature proof and feature UV Guard.

Pricing and Availability

The SF-G TOUGH series of memory cards will be available in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities. They will launch in Europe from October. Full product details are available at: http://www.sony.net/sfgt/

• BiCS FLASH 3D
• SLC only
• special low latency work
• 32Gb, 64Gb and 128Gb per one chip

• 95MB/s read speed
• 70MB/s write speed
• 64-512Gb lineup
• Prices are not set yet

At Computex they plan to show new 5000MB/s PCIe 4.0 x4 M2 SSD.

Of course, it will be slower at write speeds compared to good MLC or even 3D TLC SSDs, but for sequential read speed it will be around 25% faster.

Average capacity (check how low it is)

Average prices (with cartel agreement after 2011)

HDD for client devices sold

Especially bad are desktop PC sales

Via http://www.3dnews.ru/933825

• 160 MB/s read speeds
• 90 MB/s write speeds
• QLC memory with tiny amount of write cycles - see https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2344/the-bleak-future-of-nand-flash-memory/p2
• April release
• $450 price that is outrageous (in April NVMe 1TB QLC SSD will be $80-95)

Let's get for example AM4 consumer CPUs - Ryzen chips have 24 pcie v3.0 lines.
4x goes to NVMe slot of board (Intel lacks this). 16x go to GPU - and this one on A320 and B350/450 can't be split (aka bifurcation), to force MB makers to buy more expensive chipsets for SLI.
4x is left for the chipset (on Intel it is same, see below).

Now go into Intel consumer CPUs.

DMI 3.0, released in August 2015, allows the 8 GT/s transfer rate per lane, for a total of four lanes and 3.93 GB/s for the CPU–PCH link.

In August 2007, PCI-SIG announced that PCI Express 3.0 would carry a bit rate of 8 gigatransfers per second (GT/s)

So DMI 3.0 is PCIe 3.0 4x. And all this nice looking premium MB's actually share same actual 20x PCIe 3.0 lines.

Now back to our storage things with many NVMe drives. Ideally we want to have as much PCIe lines as possible to keep fast copy between any of them and allowing fast copy via 10Gb network adapter (and this one also eat lines a lot, you need PCIe v2.0 x4 at least for one port!).

For all chipsets that allow bifurcation of PCIe x16 GPU slot we must leave x8 only for GPU if it is editing/grading machine.
For storage machine it is best to avoid external GPU and go with build in one if you need it, so all x16 lines will be available.

For example Threadripper has 60 PCIe lines - x48 lanes for GPUs, x12 for I/O.

Now to our solutions, from top to bottom.

ASmedia 2824 based solutions. PCIe 3.0 x16/x8 into 4x PCIe 3.0 x4 or pair of PCIe 3.0 x4.

Expensive thing, $232

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/NEW-The-adapter-card-PCI-E-16X-TO-4P-NVMe-SSD-Support-RAIDO-PCI-E-16X/32951136605.html

Can also look at 2x variant - https://www.amazon.com/CREST-SI-PEX40129-Ports-Bifurcation-Controller/dp/B07HYZY7P2

Cheaper options requiring MB support

Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Card from $65 - https://www.amazon.com/Asus-Hyper-M-2-x16-Card/dp/B0753JTJTG/

ASROCK M. 2 SSD Upgrade Board from $120 - https://www.amazon.com/ASROCK-Upgrade-Board-Ultra-Quad/dp/B079TQ9C6Q/

These are dumb cards requiring MB to split PCIe slot aka PCIe bifurcation (and make proper RAID, if necessary).
On AMD it is usually for x399 Threadripper chipset only.

Cheapest option - use direct connection and one NVMe SSD per one slot

Can be with bracket or fully internal and compact. Best to use in x4 mode slots, so Intel chipsets usually work better (on AMD 3rd and more wide slots drop to PCIe 2.0 speeds).

Cots is below $5

• Fixable - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/H1111Z-Add-On-Cards-PCIE-to-M2-M-2-Adapter-PCI-Express-M-2-SSD-PCIE/32919000167.html
• Compact - https://ru.aliexpress.com/item/PCIE-M2-PCI-E-PCI-Express-3-0X4X8X16-NGFF-M-M-2/32948882740.html

microSD Express joins SD Express in integrating PCIe® and NVMe™ for up to 985 MB/sec transfer rate with backwards compatibility

BARCELONA — Mobile World Congress Booth #CS120 — Feb. 25, 2019 — The SD Association announced today microSD Express, offering the popular PCI Express® and NVMe™ interfaces alongside the legacy microSD interface for backwards compatibility. Like SD Express, microSD Express uses the PCIe interface delivering a 985 megabytes per second (MB/s) maximum data transfer rate and the NVMe upper layer protocol enables advanced memory access mechanism, enabling a new world of opportunities for mobile devices.

microSD Express cards defined in the SD 7.1 specification will be offered in a variety of capacities such as microSDHC Express, microSDXC Express and microSDUC Express. An updated video provides an overview of microSD Express and SD Express.

“microSD Express gives the mobile industry a compelling new choice to equip mobile devices with removable SSDs,” said Hiroyuki Sakamoto, SDA president. “SD 7.1 prepares consumers and mobile device manufacturers to meet ever increasing storage demands for years to come.”

“PCI-SIG is pleased to continue our collaboration with the SDA on this newest innovation for the world’s leading removable memory card – microSD,” said Al Yanes, PCI-SIG president and chairman. “PCIe specification conformance tests are available today by major test vendors, offering a significant advantage for any new PCIe adopter.”

microSD Express delivers speeds necessary to transfer large amounts of information generated by data-intense wireless communication, speed hungry applications running on cards and mobile computing devices, ever evolving gaming systems, multi-channel IoT devices, numerous automotive uses, higher resolution mobile videos, action cameras , 360o videos, VR and more.

“NVMe is the industry-recognized performance SSD interface from the client to the data center to mobile, shipping in millions of units,” said Amber Huffman, NVM Express® Inc. president. “By SDA adopting NVMe technology into the new microSD Express cards, users can experience lower latency and increasingly fast transfer speeds across various applications.”

microSD Express uses the well-known PCIe 3.1 and NVMe v1.3 specifications defined by PCI-SIG® and NVM Express, respectively, on the second row of pins. PCIe 3.1 includes the low power sub-states (L1.1, L1.2) enabling low power implementations of SD Express for the mobile market. In addition, SD Express cards with significantly higher speed data transfer rates are expected to consume less energy than traditional microSD memory cards while keeping the same maximum consumed power. The cards provide system developers new options offered by PCIe and NVMe capabilities, such as Bus Mastering, Multi Queue (without locking mechanism) and Host Memory Buffer. By relying on successful protocols already in the marketplace, the SDA gives the industry an advantage allowing utilization of existing test equipment and saving in development process by usage of existing building blocks used in existing designs.

The SDA released visual marks to denote microSD Express memory cards to make matching the card and device easier for optimal device performance.

The SDA revised its white paper, “SD Express Memory Cards with PCIe and NVMe Interfaces,” that provides more details on the new capabilities and features found in the SD 7.1 specification. It also introduced a new white paper “SD Express and microSD Express Memory Cards: The Best Choice for Your Future Product Designs” providing product engineers with an in-depth look at the opportunities now available. More information is available on our website.

Find the SDA at Mobile World Congress Barcelona in Booth CS 120 February 25-28, 2019, in the Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain. The SDA is also at embedded world in Booth 3A-524 February 26-28, in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany.

just picked up the 256GB card, thought I'd share the link

At the 2019 NAB Show, LaCie, the premium brand from Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX), announced two new storage solutions for creative professionals and prosumers. The new LaCie® Rugged® RAID Shuttle and LaCie 2big RAID build on the brand’s record of efficient preservation of high-value, high-resolution digital imagery through the capture, edit, distribution, and archiving workflow.

Digital transformation in the media and entertainment industry has led to rapid data growth. In fact, according to a recent IDC whitepaper sponsored by Seagate, the media and entertainment (M&E) datasphere – the amount of data created, captured or replicated across the globe – is expected to grow at a 25% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2018 to 2025.

For 30 years, LaCie has helped creative professionals from production houses to hard-core hobbyists manage their data and the new LaCie Rugged RAID Shuttle and LaCie 2big RAID offer two new solutions to easily share, manage, and keep data secure.

“M&E continues to see extraordinary growth in high-value digital content creation,” said Jeff Fochtman, vice president of consumer solutions and global marketing for Seagate. “Seagate and LaCie brands are synonymous with quality storage solutions required for today’s complex workflows. We’re also addressing the growing need to keep data secure during the entire creative process.”

Shuttle Your Projects Safely

Addressing the increasing demand for reliable, high-performance storage offering portability, the LaCie Rugged RAID Shuttle, designed by acclaimed product designer, Neil Poulton, is the next iteration of the brand’s popular Rugged lineup. For 14 years, the Rugged drives have served creative professionals across the globe with reliable and secure storage solutions that offer industry-leading drop, shock, water, and dust resistance.

Designed with its famous orange rubber shell, the Rugged RAID Shuttle sports a massive 8TB of storage capacity in a clever flat design that can easily fit in a backpack or shipping envelope, making it an ideal shuttle drive for creative pros. It offers up to 250 MB/s in RAID 0 for performance, and RAID 1 for data redundancy, easily configured through the LaCie Toolkit. The drive also features Seagate Secure™ Hardware Encryption with password protection helping to keep your sensitive data protected from unauthorized access or intellectual property theft.

The Rugged RAID Shuttle offers USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5Gb/s) technology with USB-C connector compatible with next-generation Thunderbolt 3 and is backward compatible with USB 3.0. With a 3-year limited warranty and Seagate’s Rescue Data Recovery Services included, the drive includes a complimentary 1-month subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud® All-Apps plan (a $52.99 value) featuring Adobe Premiere® Pro, Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, and more. The 8TB LaCie Rugged RAID Shuttle will be available in May with an MSRP £489.

Professional Raid Made Easy

For creatives who constantly juggle data-intensive projects with the need for professional grade speed, the LaCie 2big RAID offers up to 16TB of capacity for desktop storage featuring Seagate’s IronWolf® Pro enterprise-class drives. Users can transfer footage quickly and efficiently with speeds of up to 440 MB/s and rely on the device’s USB-C connection for universal compatibility including Thunderbolt 3, USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gb/s), and legacy USB 3.0.

Also designed by Neil Poulton, the LaCie 2big RAID features a handsome space gray aluminum enclosure designed to reduce noise and vibration. It is pre-formatted exFAT and takes the mystery out of setting up RAID modes through the included LaCie Toolkit with RAID configuration. With a standard 5-Year Limited Warranty with Rescue Data Recovery Services and complimentary 1-month Adobe Creative Cloud All-Apps plan, LaCie 2big RAID is available this month with MSRPs of £399 (4TB), £499 (8TB), and £689 (16TB).

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation today announced the launch of the MG07ACA Series, the world’s first enterprise 14TB Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD. Using a 9-disk, helium-sealed design, the new MG07ACA Series provides the power-efficient capacity and storage density needed by cloud-scale and enterprise storage solution providers to achieve their TCO objectives.

“We have raised the bar with the new MG07ACA Series 9-disk helium-sealed design,” said Akitoshi Iwata, Vice President of Storage Products Division, Toshiba Electronic Devices and Storage Corporation. “By utilizing an innovative design, we continue to improve the benefits that high-capacity disk storage can deliver to our broad global customer base.”

The MG07ACA Series features both 14TB 9-disk and 12TB 8-disk models. The helium-sealed 3.5-inch mechanical design realizes better storage density and a lower HDD operating power profile than the previous MG06ACA Series for optimal TCO in cloud-scale infrastructures. The series also utilizes Toshiba Group’s laser welding technology to ensure the helium remains securely sealed inside the drive enclosure. The drives support a SATA 6Gbit/s interface and 7,200rpm access performance. The 9-disk 14TB models achieve a 40% increase in maximum capacity over previous MG06ACA 10TB models. Additionally, the 14TB models improve power efficiency by over 50% (W/GB).

“Toshiba’s first helium-sealed nearline drive intercepts the market at a class-leading 14 TB capacity with CMR,” said John Chen, industry analyst at Trend Focus. “Its early time-to-market for this capacity positions the company well to meet the storage needs of large hyperscale and cloud companies. Additionally, the company’s choice of a 9-disk platform paves the way to achieving higher capacities in future product generations.”

“While enterprise server and storage customers realize that shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology can improve HDD capacity, the adoption of SMR HDD products into server and storage systems is a transition that will take several years,” said John Rydning, Research Vice President for hard disk drives at IDC. “Toshiba’s new helium-sealed enterprise HDD is the world’s first 14TB of storage capacity using conventional rather than shingled magnetic recording technology, giving enterprise customers the highest capacity HDD available in the market today for existing server and storage system architectures.”

Sample deliveries of MG07ACA Series drives to customers sequentially begin today. For more information on our full line of HDD storage products, please visit: https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/us/product/storage-products/enterprise-hdd/mg07acaxxx.html.