If you could load a motherboard with absolute killer features, what would you include? Intel’s new X99 chipset opens the door a bit where, with the right X99 CPU, our PCIe lanes increase to 40 allowing us the leverage to stack our systems much more than we ever could have before. Can you imagine a triple SLI/Crossfire graphics card layout …
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ASRock X99 OC Formula Review – SSD Performance Differs Slightly With the X99
If you are going to introduce a new motherboard to the world, perhaps the best marketing feat one could achieve would be to set a new overclocking world record for that board close to the time of its release. Nick Shih of ASRock did that with the new ASRock X99 OC Formula recently by overclocking the latest Intel i7-5960X chip …
Read More »Mach Xtreme MX-ES Ultra SLC USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review (64GB)
In examining the flash industry over the past eight years, I don’t think many would argue that there has been insurmountable growth, paired with enough growing pains and obstacles along the way to frustrate even the best in the business. Flash technology has grown so fast that today it would be seemingly impossible to find anyone not tied to flash …
Read More »Transcend SSD370 SSD Review (256GB) – Great SSD Value Point
SSDs have been around for several years now, but some could argue that they have yet to hit mainstream. When you compare SSD sales today to the hard drive, we could make a case when we state that they are still in their infancy. The biggest reasoning for this, of course, has been industries lack of ability to find that …
Read More »ADATA SP610 SSD Review (512GB) – Decent Speeds and a Wicked Price Point!
Silicon Motion (SMI) has met with success as of late with release of their SM2246EN SATA 3 SSD controller. It was just under a year ago that we sat with Robert Fan to discuss the future of SM2246EN, while today it can be found in the PNY Optima, Corsair LX, as well as the ADATA SP610 of this report. Our …
Read More »Intel P3700 NVMe SSD Installed In a Win 8.1 Consumer PC – Drivers Benched
In July of last year, Samsung announced their manufacturing of the XS1715, worlds first NVMe SSD capable of performance of 3GB/s throughput and up to 750,000 IOPS. Unfortunately, the closest anyone has come to that SSD, at least from the review perspective, is through public displays of its progress at both Samsung SSD Summits last fall, and this summer. Having …
Read More »Intel SSD DC P3700 Enthusiast Report (800GB)
A few days ago, we released our review of the Intel SSD DC P3700 NVMe SSD. This new entry to the enterprise market brought in just under 500K IOPS in a single PCB and single controller design package, a design not needing the traditional RAID solution to achieve performance above 2.5GB/s. As much attention as it gained from the enterprise …
Read More »SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD Review – Great Speed & 10 Year Warranty
Last week at Computex, SanDisk announced its latest and greatest in consumer solid state drives, the SanDisk Extreme Pro 6Gbps SSD. Targeting gamers, PC enthusiasts and media professionals, the Extreme Pro boasts performance consistency, as well as all around speed increase from its last round of consumer SSDs. Fortunately for us, SanDisk provided 240, 480 and 960GB samples of the …
Read More »ASRock Z97 Extreme6 Tests Samsung XP941 M.2 x4, Plextor M6e M.2 x2 and Samsung 840 Pro SATA 3 SSDs
To anyone not familiar with SSDs, our title might not seem that striking, but it represents a huge step forward in storage technology within a very short time. It also speaks highly of ASRock for again leading the way in advancing storage, as they are the only to incorporate a new SSD innovation into their Extreme 6 motherboard; this of …
Read More »PNY Optima SSD Series Review (240 GB) – New Controller and a Wicked Price
Some time ago, Silicon Motion had sent us a new SSD controller they were working on a prototype SSD for review. The SM2246EN controller that we looked at was a four channel SATA 3 controller, capable of 510MB/s read and 410MB/s write with up to 80K IOPS, also capable of 256-Bit AES encryption. Up until this report, that was as …
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