It is hard to believe but the SSD industry has reached an incredible 30.72TB in a single 2.5″ 24G SAS SSD and this could have only been accomplished with KIOXIA’s 5th generation 3D TLC flash memory. This enterprise SSD is targeting high performance computing, AI, reliability and security for enterprise servers and storage and is FIPS² 140-2 certified and currently …
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Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus SSD With PS5 Heatsink Review – They Switched to B47R Memory Without Telling a Soul!
Without a doubt, the loudest a reader can be in the SSD world is when a company dares to switch hardware in their SSDs without telling anyone. This goes back years and, well, few have escaped the wrath of online ridicule when they are caught doing such. I have always been the bad guy and still believe that manufacturers have …
Read More »Understand the Importance of NAND Flash as KIOXIA Celebrates 35 Years as Its Inventor
At least to me, it’s rather amazing how one of the most progressive inventions historically has been overlooked. It is not electricity. It is not the light bulb and it isn’t the telephone but you can bet that it plays a massive role within each in every moment of our lives. It is NAND flash and NAND was invented by …
Read More »WD_Black SN770 Gen 4 SSD Review – Don’t Let Its Good Looks Fool You.
There is a long standing belief that buying a DRAM-less SSD is just wrong. As much as this might hold water prior to and for those users not using Windows 10, it doesn’t for those looking for value and performance in storage today. Without getting too complicated, NVMe and Windows 10 allow the SSD to create a Host Memory Buffer …
Read More »TeamGroup T-Force Cardea A440 Pro Gen4 SSD Review – Top Speeds Great Value
Gen 4 SSDs have become common place as of late and manufacturers have elected to rely on the Phison E18 PCIe 4.0 NVMe controller, and for good reason. It is a top tier controller with performance that provides 7GB/s throughput and over 1 million IOPS and, most recently, we even identified an SSD with this controller as being a ‘game …
Read More »XPG Atom 50 Gen 4 NVMe SSD Review – A DRAM-less SSD Competes with the Best
An unexpected surprise arrived at our offices this Christmas break in the guise of a PCIe 4.0 DRAM-less SSD. It was only a matter of time but there has been some clever thought put into this drive. It is the ADATA XPG Atom 50 Gen 4 SSD and two things that stand out are that it is a single-sided SSD, …
Read More »KIOXIA Announces Production of EM6 NVMe-oF SSDs and BG5 Gen 4 for Client Portfolio
KIOXIA has introduces two key products in the flash world in the past few weeks, the EM6 NVMe-oF SSD for enterprise and the BG5 update for PCIe 4.0 which will be available to typical PC users as a client addition to pre-built PC systems. EM6 NVMe-oF ENTERPRISE SSD To start things along, the EM6 is an enterprise NVMe-oF SSD available …
Read More »KIOXIA Introduces First PCIe 5.0 EDSFF SSD to Market – Gen 4×4 Speeds Using only Half the Lane Space
We might think that development in the SSD world has slowed a bit by now but that isn’t the case whatsoever. As much as we have seen a mass change from the 2.5″ SATA SSD capable of 540MB/s to todays M.2 form factor which is only a fraction of the size yet capable of 8TB capacities up to 7GB/s, the …
Read More »Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVME SSD Review – Did Kingston Just Release a ‘Game’ Changer?
One of the oldest names in SSDs is Kingston. One might not expect such as Kingston, by all sense of the term, is a third party manufacturer…or distributor. Unlike Samsung, WD/SanDisk, Intel, Kioxia, Micron, SKHynix and a few others, they do not actually own a fab that ‘grows’ the silicon ingots to manufacture NAND wafers. Unbelievably, the original Kingston SSDNow …
Read More »Silicon Power XD80 Gen 3 NVMe SSD Review – Is this the Ultimate Gen3 Gaming Solution?
On our test Bench today is the Silicon Power XD80 PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 SSD. It is a 2TB capacity and claims to bring us top Gen 3 speeds with a lower price point and at lower temperatures, 20% lower actually. The XD80 comes with its own metal heatsink attached, something we really never saw with many Gen 3 SSDs. …
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