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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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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, …

Without a doubt, our biggest takeaway from attending Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, this year was our introduction to Risteárd McSweeney of 360Technology.io.  We met Risteárd through his representation of KIOXIA at their exhibit and he has been able to accomplish something that we haven’t for several years, our review of  the consumer side of KIOXIA products.  In fact, our …

Last in our latest round of portable SSD reviews is the Crucial X10 8TB 20Gbps Portable SSD, and yes, we have this in our hot little hands.  It is actually quite a feat when you consider this SSD is less than half the size of your smartphone, yet can store all the data, video, music or pictures that you might …