After stepping into the WD suite at CES this year we saw quite the array of storage products. From traditional mechanical disks and NAS storage devices to USB drives and the like, WD has devices for anybody’s needs. Recently we reviewed their first SSD product, the WD Blue SSD and at the same time, they launched the green series too. …
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Western Digital Announces WD Black2 — World’s First SSD + HDD Dual Drive (Not a Hybird Drive)
Western Digital Corp., a global storage industry leader, is announcing the release of their new WD Black2 dual drive, which is a uniquely innovative storage product that combines a 2.5″ 120GB solid state drive (SSD) with a 1TB hard disk drive (HDD) in a single 9.5 mm enclosure. The WD Black2 is ideal for consumers or service providers desiring to …
Read More »Western Digital Confirms New Ultra Slim WD Black Hybrid SSD Not Haswell DEVSLP Compliant – Computex 2013 Update
Although it isn’t news to some, it is a very interesting consideration most should make when selecting their new ultra and PC systems this year. Hard drives are not compliant with the new SATA DEVSLP spec and this includes hybrid devices, although we wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t overcome sometime in the future. SATA DEVSLP only works for SSDs. …
Read More »Corsair MP700 PCIe 5.0 2TB NVMe SSD Review – Gen 5 Makes its Storage Claim to Fame
It seems like so long since we posted our review of the Phison PS5026 – E26 PCIe 5.0 reference design where the world got its first look at the incredible performance of a Gen 5 SSD. Hot off the press on the Test Bench today is Corsairs newest MP700 PCIe 5.0 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD and, if you would believe …
Read More »Crucial T700 PCIe 5 SSD Review – 12.4GB/s Throughput with over 1.6 Million IOPS
One of the oldest names in the flash business is Micron/Crucial and our own relationship with them goes way back to 2010. Back then, we were one of the first to review their Crucial C300 RealSSD in a 64GB capacity, with lightning fast speeds of 357MB/s read and 76MB/s write, and a price of $139.99… for a 64GB SSD. We …
Read More »Building the TSSDR ASRock Z790 Taichi Core I5-13600K Test Bench
PCIe 5.0 has made its stand in the PC world and is well on its way to making everything we do faster and more efficient. Considering data storage, SSD data transfer speeds now stretch above 10GB/s, but other Z790 great features include parallel ThunderBolt 4 and USB 3.2 2×2, as well as CPU speeds well above 5GHz. TBolt 3/4 brings …
Read More »Samsung T7 Shield 10Gbps Portable SSD Review – 4TB of External Storage Goodness
Sometimes small things surprise us. Samsung just pulled this off with their newest T7 Shield which has just been released in a massive 4TB capacity. You see… this is not typical of Samsung to push out such high capacity storage as it goes against their business model. I know this as I had a very lengthy conversation with Samsung in …
Read More »The TSSDR Z790 Core i9-13900K Test Bench Comes Alive with First PCIe 5.0 SSD Speed Testing
It has been some time since we have posted a Test Bench build so we thought we would start the new year off right by introducing the world to our latest and greatest Intel based Test Bench. As much as we hoped this might be our introduction to Gen 5 SSDs and the incredible speed they provide, timing was just …
Read More »Corsair MP600 GS SSD Review – Micron B47R Premium Flash in a 2TB DRAMless SSD
DRAMless SSDs are somewhat of an odd duck in the SSD world, yet they consistently reappear. Ask anyone on any forum if DRAMless SSDs are a viable option for a main storage medium could be considered picking a fight. There are hard pressed views and, as a rather long-standing solid state drive reviewer, my views haven’t always gone with the …
Read More »SanDisk Professional PRO-G40 ThunderBolt 3 Dual Mode Portable SSD Review – Unbelievable 3.1GB/s Data Transfer Speeds
Hot on the heals of one of the best examples of pure storage gear that we have ever had in our hands (SanDisk Professional PRO-BLADE), Western Digital sends us along their newest SanDisk Professional PRO-G40 Portable SSD for a quick look. Let’s start this report off by saying that SanDisk Professional gear is not for the faint of heart. It …
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