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Kingston Displays Newest A1000 and DCU1000 NVMe SSDs | CES 2018 Update
Kingston reached for both ends of the spectrum in the SSD arena this year at CES, displaying a value-minded NVMe SSD to lure many away from SATA, as well as a media powerhouse enterprise SSD, aimed right at the media world. First off, let’s take a look at the Kingston A1000… The A1000 is Kingston’s latest entry level NVMe SSD …
Read More »Intel Optane SSD 900P Review (480GB) – Understanding Disruptive Technology
So the Intel Optane SSD 900P NVMe SSD has been out for about a week now and it is expensive, hard to find and being termed as a disruptive technology by the SSD Gods. By SSD Gods of course, I refer to 4-5 flash reviewers that have been in the industry since SSDs were introduced and I can draw a direct …
Read More »HighPoint SSD7101A-1 NVMe RAID Controller Review – Samsung and Toshiba M.2 SSDs Tested
When it comes to storage management, RAID configurations of some kind have proven to be top dog when it comes to performance. This was initially shown in our report of the Intel 910 PCIe SSD way back in 2012 and, more recently, with the Kingston DCP1000 NVMe SSD that reached 7GB/s throughput and over 1 million IOPS. The Kingston DCP1000 …
Read More »Building an ASRock X299 Fatal1ty Test Bench with the i9-7900x
So you just built a brand new Z270 PC and Intel comes out with the newest X299 ahead of schedule. Is it worth the bump to have the latest and greatest… or do you stick with the Z? If you are a media professional or high end user that needs every core you can get, the Intel Skylake-X i9-7900x is a monster with …
Read More »High Speed Multi-M.2 SSD Adapters Make an Appearance – Computex 2017 Update
If you have read our latest review of the Kingston DCP1000 SSD, you will see that multi-M.2 SSD designs can result in some of the highest speeds we have seen in SSD performance. In the case of the Kingston DCP1000, we pulled off performance of 7GB/s throughput and 1.2 million IOPS from a single AIC (add-in card) HHHL design. This …
Read More »Kingston DC400 Enterprise SSD Review (800GB/960GB)
Enterprise-class SATA SSDs are offered by nearly all the big name SSD manufacturers in the market. We have had quite a few pass through here from SanDisk, Samsung, Micron, and Toshiba recently, but it has been over three years since we last fully examined an enterprise-class Kingston SSD…key word here, fully, as we just released a simple enthusiast report of …
Read More »Intel Optane Memory Review – 1.4GB/s Speed & 300K IOPS for $44
Intel Optane Memory is Intel’ first phase in release of their Optane flash technology line that Intel hopes might revolutionize the flash industry. At its most basic level, it is SSD storage that caches your hard drive with performance speeds up to 1.4GB/s, a speed that has yet to be seen for this type of storage in the industry. The term ‘Optane’ is …
Read More »Kingston Reveals World’s Largest Flash Drive and More – CES 2017 Update
CES 2017 and all the chaos that comes with it has just begun. One of our first booth tours is with Kingston, where they just revealed the world’s largest flash drive, the DataTraveler Ultimate GT. Just how big is this flash drive? It comes in 1TB and 2TB in capacities! Made out of a zinc alloy metal casing and high-density …
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