Sandisk Skyhawk SSDs swoop down on servers
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Western Digital is expanding its subsidiary Sandisk's portfolio of SSDs with a pair of massive drives designed for its enterprise customers. Sandisk claims that the new Skyhawk series of drives offer capacities up to 3.84TB and impressive speeds, combined with lower-than-average power consumption. The Skyhawk drives are compliant with the NVMe 1.2 protocol and use four lanes of PCIe 3.0 connectivity. Unlike most NVMe drives released recently, the Skyhawks come in a 2.5" form factor instead of little M.2 gumsticks.
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