Welcome to our 2019 coverage of the ever-impressive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The first news to hit the pipeline is Toshiba announcing their BG4 series of ball grid array (BGA) solid-state drive (SSD). Toshiba’s ultra-compact NVMe™ SSDs pair both the flash and an all-new controller into a single package, creating design flexibility that is ideal for ultra-thin PC …
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On our test bench today is the TeamGroup T-FORCE CARDEA Ceramic C440 Gen 4 NVMe M.2 SSD. This SSD s…
Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus NVMe Gen 4 SSD Review (1/2TB) – Top Speed with Great Temps
Gen 4 SSDs have been available for just over a year now and the two most talked about characteristic…
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KIOXIA is announcing the release of their new XG7/XG7-P Series of PC OEM-focused SSDs, updating thei…
KIOXIA Announces XD6 E1.S – Industry’s 1st PCIe 4.0 OCP NVMe Cloud Specification-Enabled SSD
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It needs to be said. Having a Gen 4 SSD in hand with speeds of 5GB/s in a 4TB capacity is rather sp…
XPG Gammix S50 Lite Gen4 NVMe SSD Review – A Cooler Low Cost Gen 4 SSD Appears
The latest and greatest in SSDs is PCIe 4 and the extreme performance that comes with it, presently …
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