Comments for The SSD Review https://www.thessdreview.com/ The Worlds Dedicated SSD Education and Review Resource | Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:36:08 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 8100 Gen5 8TB SSD Review – This 8TB Beast Includes Industry Leading 14GB/s Gen5 Speeds & a 5-Year Warranty by Jack https://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/nvme/sandisk-optimus-gx-pro-8100-gen5-8tb-ssd-review/#comment-132409 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:36:08 +0000 https://www.thessdreview.com/?p=112631#comment-132409 Stop testing SSD against their caches:
Instead, do a big work load for a long time and see how it behaves after the cache is full to see the real performance of the drive. Make a graph over time to see the drops of performance: that way you can even estimate the cache size and cache type. Sometimes they have multiple layers of caching.

With your tests you are testing the speed of the DDR/SLC cache.

]]> Comment on The SSD Review, Flash Memory Summit, The Rolling Barrage and One Amazing Journey Across The Continent – And You Can Play a Part! by Avonton https://www.thessdreview.com/featured/the-ssd-review-flash-memory-summit-the-rolling-barrage-and-one-amazing-journey-across-the-continent-and-you-can-play-a-part/#comment-132329 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:11:23 +0000 https://www.thessdreview.com/?p=112304#comment-132329 Interesting road trip! No matter what the weather brings, they never give up at all! Not for the faint of heart though, demanding willpower and endurance!

]]> Comment on Lexar Marks Their 30th Anniversary with a ‘Behind The Build’ International Media Tour by Avonton https://www.thessdreview.com/fab-tours/lexar-marks-their-30th-anniversay-with-a-behind-the-build-international-media-tour/#comment-132328 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:06:33 +0000 https://www.thessdreview.com/?p=112187#comment-132328 Congrats Les and Lexar! Hope you had fun traveling!

]]> Comment on Exascend PD5 Gen5 7.68TB Enterprise SSD Review – 15GB/s Throughput with 3000K+ IOPS and Exceptional Random Writes by Sophie Weber @ ThingsFromMars de https://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/enterprise/exascend-pd5-gen5-7-68tb-enterprise-ssd-review-15gb-s-throughput-with-3000k-iops-and-exceptional-random-writes/#comment-132299 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:10:24 +0000 https://www.thessdreview.com/?p=112588#comment-132299 How important is real-world sustained performance compared to peak benchmark speeds when evaluating an enterprise SSD like the Exascend PD5?

]]> Comment on Samsung 990 QLC DRAMless Gen4 2TB SSD Review – Choosing Between This & the TLC-based 990 EVO Plus by nature perfected https://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/nvme/samsung-990-gen4-2tb-qlc-dramless-ssd-review/#comment-132178 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:35:04 +0000 https://www.thessdreview.com/?p=112490#comment-132178 what tf does “””NOTE:’Tested with’ (Z890/Z790/etc)””” even mean?

you do some crazy 15 GB OS transfer test with crazy times all over the place, with huge differnces, and say they were Tested with’ (Z890/Z790/etc)!!! what is ect supposed to stand for? another Z chipset? someother chipset? and older or AMD chipset? you REALLY MUST put a few other examples in your series before you put an *ETC* …. LIKE AT LEAST THREE TO FIVE OTHER CHIPSETS for anyone to be able to extrapolate what goes next after just two data points in a series!

but MOST IMPORTANTLY, you don’t identify WHICH chipset you tested with for each of those drives, and there are WILDLY different results, so your results are MEANINGLESS without knowing what chipset was tested with which drive!!!

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