When a great flash product is introduced, it catches on. This appears to be the case with the newest Kingston Fury Renegade G5 Gen5 SSD, which contains SMI’s latest SM2508 controller. I know most don’t really care what’s inside an SSD but a healthy knowledge of SSDs is a good thing. The reason, of course, is that this SM2508 controller …
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Yottamaster T7400 TitansFlow Gen4 2TB SSD Review – Running TLC NAND at 2400MT/s Speeds
A short time ago, we reviewed an SSD from a mostly unheard of company named Yottamaster. They are a China-based SSD manufacturer and they sent us the ‘Amazon available’ Yottamaster Y7000 Gen4 QLC which we reviewed here. This SSD contained a Maxio MAP1602a ‘Falcon Lite’ 4-channel NVMe SSD controller based on TSMC’s 12nm process which was paired with YMTC 232-layer …
Read More »Intel Core Ultra 200 Series Motherboards Are Not Achieving M.2 Slot Gen 5 14GB/s SSD Performance
Truth be told, this is not the fault of motherboard manufacturers, nor is it that of SSD makers. It is an issue with Intel Ultra Series 200 CPU’s that some might believe would have been picked up through initial Z890 motherboard reviews. Our testing has identified two concerns with these motherboards. The first becomes evident when one tests a PCIe …
Read More »Crucial P510 Gen5 2TB SSD Review – 10GB/s Speeds Without The Heat
Perhaps one of the most annoying things to me is when technology moves up a step but nobody is really ready for it. Take the step from PCIe 4.0 to PCIe 5.0 for instance. After all, who wouldn’t benefit from data transfer jumping from 7GB/s to 14GB/s right? And it is not like there isn’t any warning well ahead of …
Read More »Samsung 9100 Pro Gen5 4TB SSD Review – Fastest & Highest Capacity SSD Available Today
Isn’t competition a great thing? I have always considered the development of flash technology as somewhat a sport. It is simply one company trying to create a faster, larger and more reliable SSD than that of which was just released by another. I remember sitting in a business meeting at Samsung HQ in Seoul, South Korea, many years back and …
Read More »Acer FA200 Gen4 4TB SSD Review – Exploring The Maxio MAP1602 SSD Controller with YMTC QLC Memory
Once again, we are tackling yet another SSD manufactured by BIWIN and, when we check out Amazon, we can actually find the ‘FA’ line of SSDs available for sale in Canada and the USA. BIWIN is the official licensee and manufacturer of Acer and HP brand products and, as we had stated in our review of the BIWIN NV7400 and …
Read More »BIWIN Black Opal 4TB NV7400 Gen4 SSD Review – Decent DRAM-less Speed from a Maxio Controller & Micron B58R Memory
A few days ago, we posted a review of a new Gen 5 SSD from a China-based company named BIWIN. It was the Predator GM9000 and we liked what we saw. The GM9000 is not yet available in North America, but BIWIN is expanding their portfolio and will have a full line of products within reach soon enough. BIWIN sent …
Read More »Predator GM9000 Gen5 2TB SSD Review – SMI SM2508 Controller Creates SSD Perfection
It’s pretty rare that I might use the word perfection when it comes to SSDs. There is always somewhere that an SSD can be improved upon just a bit. Our report today is of an SSD that is not yet available in North America. It is the first available ‘international’ retail SSD with the newest Silicon Motion SM2508 controller and …
Read More »Micron 4600 Gen 5 2TB SSD Review – The New King of Data Transfer Reigns Supreme
Just over two months ago we posted a report on a brand new SSD that we believed might take the industry by storm… if it ever made its way to retail, client or enterprise sales that is. We say this as there have been so many SSDs that reviewers have had in their hands over the years that never made …
Read More »Corsair MP700 Pro SE Gen5 4TB SSD Review – High Performance Meets High Capacity
There is always something special about getting the biggest and baddest in hand. We review tons of 2TB SSDs and have had our share of speedy Gen 4 and Gen 5 SSDs as well, but getting a 4TB Gen 5 SSD capable of 14GB/s and 1.7 million IOPS is rather special. On our bench today is the Corsair MP700 Pro …
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