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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western Digital LDPC that might not sound like much but it's one of the features that is going to set apart the SX 930 SSD and any other SSD product that is based on the upcoming SandForce third generation so this is the 3700 series controller so what LDPC refers to is an enhanced error correction algorithm that goes along with the enhanced encryption as well as enhanced performance and enhanced features basically it's better in every possible way they have a working sample here in the suite but other than that we don't know too much about it they are quoting that it's capable of up to 1,800 megabytes per second of sustained performance with incompressible data something we're not really used to seeing with a SandForce controller and we also know that it natively supports both SATA 3 interfaces as well as PCI Express interfaces giving you the flexibility to deploy it as a PCIe add-in card or even in an M 2 or n GFF type of form factor which can go directly on a motherboard or in a small form-factor notebook now this one right here is a 2 terabyte model so we could also be looking at some increased capacity availability as well but what we also know for certain is they're not showing any performance numbers yet and we could be looking at a few more months before you can actually buy one of these babies not all futuristic SSD technology is all about highest performance possible this is the Xu 41 which is a full SSD built into a single package here so it could be soldered into something like a tablet for example it's not necessarily the highest performance in the world capable about about 20,000 random i/o ops but you get capacities up to 128 gigs and significantly better performance than you would be able to if you weren't using a proper SSD controller in spite of its extremely small form factor next up we have is working ddr4 samples no motherboard to put them in so you but there they are we have both an 8 gig and a 16 gig module to show you guys this one right here has 288 pins it runs at ddr4 2133 which isn't that impressive for now we're expecting to see better by the time it actually launches and that's at CL 15 so the timings are quite loose but there you have it guys it is working apparently but of course we can't show it working because motherboards I've been saying for quite some time that one of the ways that I personally shop for PC components as long as I'm buying from a trusted brand that has good warranty support and all that stuff is color so a data has attached to that idea of pretty strongly here and they have updated the XP gv2 memory module kit line up to now contain many different colors including some ones that I'm particularly excited about such as their matte black and matte white spreaders but they also have some pretty outlandish stuff as well so you can match up to your build pretty much no matter what your build happens to look like so we've got a pretty sweet purple anodized in win system and this is actually the one that is running the live demo of the ex SX 930 SSD featuring that SandForce 3700 series controller I talked about before guys don't miss any of our coverage here at CES 2014 remember our trip to the show is powered by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service as well as course our memory and Western Digital huge thanks to those guys because without them we wouldn't be able to be here