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Our review this morning of the KIOXIA Exceria Plus G2 2TB Portable SSD comes on the heals of our last KIOXIA Review of the Exceria Plus G4 Gen5 M.2 SSD just a few weeks back.  Our reviews of KIOXIA products are rather unique as they are Europe and Asia based products that may or may not be predominant in North …

After NAND Flash and controller, DRAM is perhaps the most important component on an SSD. In our premier article of our newest ‘ Learning to Run with Flash 2.0’  entitled, ‘Understanding SLC, MLC, TLC and QLC NAND Flash‘ we provided an understanding of the different types of NAND and value of each in the SSD spectrum. Today, we’ll be taking …

Up bright and early this morning to find you some Amazon Prime deals and they arte posted early.  Let’s get right to it! Simply click on the title of each. WD_Black SN8100 Gen5 2TB – $209.98 (Was $319.99) -34% (Link) This is one of the most powerful SSDs today and we reviewed it here!  The 1TB version of this has …

We were the first to test enterprise SSDs, beginning with Paul Alcorn’s review of the Areca 1880ix-12 PCIe 6G SAS RAID Controller way back in March of 2011.  We have been fortunate to have had some of the worlds best enterprise SSD reviewers to include, Paul Alcorn, Chris Ryan and Sean Webster, as well as maybe a ghost writer or …

Hot off its test run this morning and in our hot little hands  (well not really) is the latest Crucial consumer offering, the Crucial T710 Gen5 2TB SSD.  This SSD is  Crucial/Micron’s first ‘consumer’ release with their latest 276-layer G9 3D TLC NAND flash memory.  This move improves upon the previous G8 232-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory and, well, …

It is not often that a new SSD brings alot to the table.  Sure, many might introduce new memory, or a  new SSD controller, but it is rare that we are introduced to an SSD that literally changes the landscape of what is possiible with flash media.  The Micron 2600 Gen 4 QLC SSD we are testing today does just …

We are getting close to prime Day once again and The SSD review will Occasionally post somne great finds up untiil that day.  This morning we found the Kingston 2TB NV3 Gen4 SSD for only $114.99 but hurry, this is a Limited time deal! If you ned space, this SSD at 4TB is only $239.99. We reviewed this very SSD …

KIOXIA has just  introduced their newest CD9P Gen5 14GB/s enterprise SSD which will reach a high capacity of 61.44TB in its 2.5″ form factor and up to 30.72 TB in its E.3.S form factor.  If you want to check this out first hand, there is no better place than HPE Didscover on Las Vegas next week, feom 23-26 Jun 25. …

It is funny how some things come around.  A few years ago Silicon Motion requested our review of their newest SM2708 SD Express Controller and we posted such, displaying the worlds first SD card achieving speeds of 900MB/s.  That was back in 2021.  That controller recently appeared in a Google Alert and it appears the latest Nintendo Switch 2 Gaming …

Disk Optimization is a very simple process by which your PC  physically removes deleted and unnecessary data from your SSD in order to allow for better performance and longevity.  You can do this manually as we will demonstrate, but thankfully your PC has already set this up.  Drive Optimization is a beneficial and background process that occurs automatically with PCs.  …

Our last ‘Quick Hit’ in our Learning to Run With Flash 2.0 Series was titled, ‘Where is My New SSD?‘ and it did just that.  It explained why some appear to lose their SSD on installation and how to get on the right track once again.  In that, we tackled how to initialize ones disk, but not the specifics of …

You most likely arrived here one of two ways; sheer interest or you just installed your new SSD and cannot find it.  The latter is more common than most think and usually the after effect of installing a secondary SSD in your system.  After all, a migration of a former hard drive based system (which we NEVER recommend) wouldn’t cause …

So if I were to speak of the best in PCIe 5.0 SSDs going mainstream, it would have to be the efforts and success in finding a higher performing yet cooler storage solution.  This wasn’t so much the case with Gen4 and I think we seemed to get used to the fact that Gen4 SSDs, for the longest time, ran …

Data storage in NAND flash memory is a complex process that is not only difficult to understand, but also challenging to explain. Humans are good at abstraction, and we use this skill to enhance technology, even if we are not aware of what is exactly going on at the level of matter. In the case of NAND flash, we understand …

The Lexar brand has been around for some time, and in fact, our first mention of Lexar goes all the way back to one of our first Storage Visions meetings in Las Vegas some 14 years ago.  Lexar was originally a Micron brand but was acquired by Longsys Electronics in 2017 and Longsys has built on that brand name since, …