The KingSpec vendor presented its new solid-state drives family, performed in accordance with the NVMe 1.3 specification. Up to this moment we hold no information about price and market launch date, however we possess knowledge of key peculiarities of these devices.

 

The NE Series M.2 SSD line samples are produced with the 3D TLC NAND flash mem chips. The novelties comply with the М.2 2280 standard while being 22 × 80 mm in size. The frontal part is protected by a rich red covering.

 

The NVMe (NVM Express) specification presupposes the SSD access via the PCI Express bus, which enhances read/write speeds rates and diminishes delays. KingSpec NE Series drives ensure the 2,400 MBps read speed and the 1,700 MBps write speed. IOPS during the 4 KB data chunks handling is up to 76,400 (read) and 96,200 (write).

 

The latest series includes four models of the 120, 240, 480 and 960 GB capacity. The mean time to failure claimed reaches 1 million …

Adaptec by PMC introduces the first in the market RAID controller series with the outstanding amount of SAS/SATA 6 Gb/sec ports. Adaptec Series 7 combines low-profile expansion cards developed particularly for PCI Express 3.0 bus. The integrated properties are called to enhance the bandwidth of the bus due to the availability of sixteen SAS/SATA 6 Gb/sec ports.



According to the claimed specifications, these RAID controllers are capable to demonstrate up to 450000 IOPS performance (on random writing (4 KB) conditions) when the number of connected SSDs equals to 16. Such performance showings are currently insuperable by a number of contemporary RAID controllers.


Adaptec Series 7 includes eight models which are differentiated by an amount of external and internal ports. All the models are low-profile expansion cards which are equipped with up to 24 ports. Such technological innovation became possible thanks to the implementation of compact HD mini-SAS sockets and …

On the decline of 2014 Gigabyte decided to gladden its North American customers with a unique solution – the GeForce GTX 980 WaterForce 3-Way SLI. This is an extreme set of three factory overclocked graphics cards (1228 MHz/1329 MHz clock frequencies) combined with a powerful liquid-cooling system. Each GPU features 4 GB of GDDR5 memory, providing for the best visual experience. Enthusiasts might already acquire this extraordinary kit for the price tag of $2999.99.



The enclosed liquid-cooler is housed in a massive case that is installed over the system case. It consists of three heatsinks combined with pumps, and three 120 mm fans. In order to enable the system, the user needs to involve a single bay for 5.25-inch drives. On their part, the GPUs are equipped with independent full-cover water pumps; the latter are able to cool not only GPUs but VRAM circuitry as well.


To continue, this liquid cooler boasts the availability of OLED display. It designates temperature of GPU …