I just can’t wrap my head around why KIOXIA hasn’t brought its consumer SSDs to North America. And, in the same vein, I still don’t fully understand why Micron retired the much-loved Crucial brand. That said, I’m convinced KIOXIA-branded SSDs would do extremely well here, potentially rivaling those top-tier bestsellers we all know. In the meantime, our small team is …
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Silicon Motion Displays New SM2524XT Gen5 Controller Along with Next-Gen Tech | Computex 2026 Update
This week at Computex Taipei, Silicon Motion displayed their newest SM2524XT Gen5 SSD controller which held a surprising first. This SSD controller is built on the TSMC 6nm process and is a DRAMless controller which relies on your systems HMB, better known as the host memory buffer. The HMB is an SSD feature that allows a drive without its own …
Read More »Phison PS5037-E37T DRAMless SSD Demonstrates Gen5 Speeds at 4.5W Low Power Draw | Computex 2026 Update
Phison’s newest E37T DRAMless controller was on display at Computex 2026 this week and appears to be a force to be reckoned with. This DRAMless SSD comes along at a time when SSDs are at a premium, the result of NAND and DRAM pricing being driven up through AI needs. I don’t think we have seen pricing this high since …
Read More »Lexar Display Scores an ‘Olympico’ at Computex 2026 | Computex 2026 Update
Many might not know the term ‘Olympico’ but it speaks to a corner kick which scores a goal without any other player touching the ball in football. It is incredibly rare. It is considered the impossible goal. As coincidence may have it, it’s name comes from Argentine player Cesareo Onzari who scored the first one against the Olympic champions, Uruguay, …
Read More »Intel Wildcat Lake Core 7 360 Spotted in The Wild with Phison aiDAPTIV | Computex 2026 Update
It is not often that we report on something non-storage but we just happened to come across a display showing the Intel Wildcat Lake Core 7 360 platform at the Phison booth today. Could this have been an Intel slip? We certainly aren’t aware of many similar sightings of such in the wild. This just happens to coincide with Phison’s …
Read More »Longsys Brings Their mSSD to Market and Bumps it to Gen5 | Computex 2026 Update
If you are a fan of The SSD review, you may remember a post we made and subsequent review of a very innovative storage design by Longsys at CES this past January. It was called the mSSD and was a concept back then, a concept by which we were fortunate to provide full report on right here! That product was …
Read More »The SSD Review/Technology X Will Be at Computex 2026 and Sponsored by SMI
Less than a week from now The SSD Review/Technology X is off to Computex Taipei! This has been a staple in our business attendance for some 14 years now and we are looking forward to the trip, this year sponsored by our friends at Silicon Motion once again. It will be great to touch base with old friends and new, …
Read More »ADATA URBAN TAPSAFE 1TB External SSD Review – NFC Data Security at 2GB/s Transfer speeds
It’s rare that we open a report with such high praise for a product right from the first sentence. It’s even rarer when that product happens to be an external SSD. In fact, I’ve only done it once before back in 2018 for the Tekq Rapide. That same TB3 external SSD is still sitting right in front of me today. …
Read More »KIOXIA CD9P-R Gen5 7.68 Data Center SSD Review – This SSD Screams Mainstream Storage Success
Our look at the KIOXIA CD9P-R Gen5 Data Center SSD marks a first for The SSD Review, and it’s a bit of a nostalgic one. Our connection with the KIOXIA team stretches back many years, all the way to the early OCZ Revo and Vertex days. That lineage later became Toshiba, and eventually KIOXIA around 2018–2019. Since shifting our focus …
Read More »KIOXIA Announces EG7 Gen4 QLC Client Based Value SSDs
With the price of memory these days, it can only be expected that we will see more value-driven options in both client and consumer SSD solutions, such as pre-configured PCs and laptops. Right in line with this, KIOXIA has introduced its first Gen4 QLC NAND equipped SSD known as the EG7. The KIOXIA EG7 Series is a PCIe 4.0 (Gen4) …
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